Congratulations to fourth-year student Stu Dearnley, whose story "Sparring Partners" won the 2013 Playboy College Fiction Contest. His story appears in the October issue of the magazine, available now.
Stu's win gives our MFA program a hat trick: recent graduate Meaghan Mulholland won the contest in 2010 for her story "Woman, Fire, and the Sea," and alum Hardin Young won in 2003 for "The One Percenter."
Friday, September 20, 2013
Sanders Publishes Essay Marking DFW's Death
One of our favorite former students, Steve Sanders--now a PhD student at the Univ. of Houston and nonfiction editor at Gulf Coast--marked the five-year anniversary of David Foster Wallace's death with this personal and poignant essay.
Two New Poems by Takacs
Second-year student Eszter Takacs has two new poems out, both available online! You'll find "I meant nothing by which we stand here gracefully eating" in the September issue of Thrush, and "Together we will talk right down to Earth" in issue 3 of Ghost Proposal.
Monday, September 9, 2013
New Collection of Flash Fiction from Rafferty
Poetry alumnus Charles Rafferty (1990) ventures into prose with his new collection of flash fiction, Saturday Night at Magellan's, published by Fomite Press. Grab a copy and enjoy some dramatic morsels of story.
And for a taste of Charles' poetry, check out his collection The Man on the Tower, or his latest chapbook "Appetites," published by Clemson University Press.
And for a taste of Charles' poetry, check out his collection The Man on the Tower, or his latest chapbook "Appetites," published by Clemson University Press.
Friday, September 6, 2013
Askew Essay in Tin House
Ready for a close encounter of the slithery sort? Check out a new essay by Rilla Askew, visiting associate professor of fiction, in the latest issue of Tin House. You can read "Rhumba" in the Features section here.
Thursday, September 5, 2013
Fiction by Kinzer in Whole Beast Rag
Second-year fiction student David Kinzer has a new story, "The Ai Wei Wei Industry," in Whole Beast Rag.
"Ai Weiwei, the famous Chinese artist and political dissident, appeared at a Handan police station one late spring afternoon. His hair was very gray, and his blue floral shirt was missing two buttons at belly level. At this point, he’d been detained by the Chinese government for 146 days. The first thing he told the police, and the phrase repeated to them most often in the hours afterward, was I am not Ai Weiwei."
"Ai Weiwei, the famous Chinese artist and political dissident, appeared at a Handan police station one late spring afternoon. His hair was very gray, and his blue floral shirt was missing two buttons at belly level. At this point, he’d been detained by the Chinese government for 146 days. The first thing he told the police, and the phrase repeated to them most often in the hours afterward, was I am not Ai Weiwei."
Alchemy Features Translation by Fares
The journal Alchemy features a new excerpt from the novel "32" by Sahar Mandour, translated from the Arabic by second-year student Nicole Fares.
"Her parents would tell her that Saeed would make a good partner for her when they grow old, so she should put up with him. She told me: what if I tolerate him and he dies of a heart attack ten years from now? Or what if I kill him before he reaches old age? How can I sacrifice the best years of my life, only to grow old and still have to face him, like a bad job?"
"Her parents would tell her that Saeed would make a good partner for her when they grow old, so she should put up with him. She told me: what if I tolerate him and he dies of a heart attack ten years from now? Or what if I kill him before he reaches old age? How can I sacrifice the best years of my life, only to grow old and still have to face him, like a bad job?"
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