Poems by Leslie Adams (current first-year in poetry), Tim Shea (MFA '08, poetry) and SIUC faculty poet Allison Joseph appear in the latest issue of New South, a literary journal located at Georgia State University.
Poems by SIUC faculty poets Rodney Jones and Allison Joseph appear in the 35th anniversary issue of River Styx.
A review of MFA '04 Curtis Crisler's first book of poems, Tough Boy Sonatas, appears in the new issue of Big Muddy.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Friday, March 26, 2010
Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest Winners: 2010
Announcing the Winners of the 2010 Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest
SPONSORED BY THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM AND THE WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE
Judge Lee Ann Roripaugh, poet and professor at the University of South Dakota, has chosen to honor the following poets and their poems:
UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Jonathan Veach for “Renoir’s Vase of Chrysanthemums”
Second place: Stephenie DeArcangelis for “How It Is, Not Why”
Third place: Rheanna Pulley for “Mondays in Winter”
GRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Amie Whittemore for “Lightning Bug Season”
Second place: Sarah McCartt-Jackson for “Vanishing Point”
Third place: Ruth Awad for “When My Mother Returned”
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Travelstead for “Clam Gulch, Alaska”
Please join us on Monday, March 29 2010 at 4 pm in the SIUC Student Center Auditorium for an awards ceremony featuring a reading from our judge, Lee Ann Roripaugh, the author of On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (SIU Press)and two other collections of poetry. The winners will also read their award-winning poems. There will be a booksigning and reception in the Old Main Lounge after the ceremony.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera, who was a poet and graduate student in English at the time of her death in 2003. Additional support for this contest comes from the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowment.
SPONSORED BY THE CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM AND THE WOMEN’S STUDIES PROGRAM
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE
Judge Lee Ann Roripaugh, poet and professor at the University of South Dakota, has chosen to honor the following poets and their poems:
UNDERGRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Jonathan Veach for “Renoir’s Vase of Chrysanthemums”
Second place: Stephenie DeArcangelis for “How It Is, Not Why”
Third place: Rheanna Pulley for “Mondays in Winter”
GRADUATE WINNERS:
First place: Amie Whittemore for “Lightning Bug Season”
Second place: Sarah McCartt-Jackson for “Vanishing Point”
Third place: Ruth Awad for “When My Mother Returned”
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Travelstead for “Clam Gulch, Alaska”
Please join us on Monday, March 29 2010 at 4 pm in the SIUC Student Center Auditorium for an awards ceremony featuring a reading from our judge, Lee Ann Roripaugh, the author of On the Cusp of a Dangerous Year (SIU Press)and two other collections of poetry. The winners will also read their award-winning poems. There will be a booksigning and reception in the Old Main Lounge after the ceremony.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera, who was a poet and graduate student in English at the time of her death in 2003. Additional support for this contest comes from the Judge William Holmes Cook Endowment.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Publication Congratulations to...
Alex Lumans (MFA '09, fiction):
I just had a story accepted for the Cincinnati Review (fall issue) called "Before I Offer Myself to the Birdmen."
And I also got a proposal accepted for a breakout session (called "Remaking the Real") at the
Ohio Festival of the Short Story that will go on this coming May 7 and 8 in Cincinnati.
Mark Brewin (second-year, poetry):
My poems "The Sunken House, The Rough Floor" and "Self-Portrait with a Mouse in my Future Mother-In-Law's Kitchen" have been picked up at La Fovea, an online publication with an interesting premise. I recommend others check it out...
I just had a story accepted for the Cincinnati Review (fall issue) called "Before I Offer Myself to the Birdmen."
And I also got a proposal accepted for a breakout session (called "Remaking the Real") at the
Ohio Festival of the Short Story that will go on this coming May 7 and 8 in Cincinnati.
Mark Brewin (second-year, poetry):
My poems "The Sunken House, The Rough Floor" and "Self-Portrait with a Mouse in my Future Mother-In-Law's Kitchen" have been picked up at La Fovea, an online publication with an interesting premise. I recommend others check it out...
Monday, March 22, 2010
Congrats to Mark Brewin!
Second-year poetry MFA student Mark Brewin has happy news to report:
I am pleased to e-mail you and say that the Los Angeles Review has accepted "From These Split Ends" and "Jersey Devil" for publication in their fine journal. Thank you so much.
-mb.
Congrats, Mark!
I am pleased to e-mail you and say that the Los Angeles Review has accepted "From These Split Ends" and "Jersey Devil" for publication in their fine journal. Thank you so much.
-mb.
Congrats, Mark!
Friday, March 19, 2010
Alumni Theater Project: Other People's Letters
Abby Wheetley (MFA '09, fiction) sends word of a very interesting upcoming theater project she and the folks in Special Collections have put together:
On the evening of April 8th, 2010, the Special Collections Research Center will be hosting an evening of dramatic readings from their collections. The event will begin at five thirty, take place in the John C. Guyon Auditorium and will be followed by a brief reception in the 1st Floor Rotunda with food and beverages.
Highlights include a letter from Charlie Chaplin during the McCarthy Era, a sustained correspondence from James Joyce to his publisher, a look into the daily life of a woman during the civil war and an entertaining account of a Paris trip from Henry Miller.
Attendees to the event can expect to be entertained, amused, shocked and touched by the intimacy and revelations that comes from reading Other People’s Letters. The event is free and open to the public.
The Special Collections Research Center of the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale collects and preserves unique and rare historical materials in selected subject areas, and promotes the use of these materials by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and further the educational, research, and service missions of the university.
On the evening of April 8th, 2010, the Special Collections Research Center will be hosting an evening of dramatic readings from their collections. The event will begin at five thirty, take place in the John C. Guyon Auditorium and will be followed by a brief reception in the 1st Floor Rotunda with food and beverages.
Highlights include a letter from Charlie Chaplin during the McCarthy Era, a sustained correspondence from James Joyce to his publisher, a look into the daily life of a woman during the civil war and an entertaining account of a Paris trip from Henry Miller.
Attendees to the event can expect to be entertained, amused, shocked and touched by the intimacy and revelations that comes from reading Other People’s Letters. The event is free and open to the public.
The Special Collections Research Center of the Morris Library at Southern Illinois University Carbondale collects and preserves unique and rare historical materials in selected subject areas, and promotes the use of these materials by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale community, scholars, and the public. Its goal is to advance scholarship and further the educational, research, and service missions of the university.
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Alumni Reading Alert: Greg Schwipps, MFA '98, fiction
Greg Schwipps (MFA '98, fiction) reads from his work in Paducah, KY on Saturday, March 27 as part of the RiverTown Reading Series (7:30 pm at the Yeiser Art Center, 200 Broadway Street Paducah, KY 42001-0732). He'd love to to see some friendly SIUC faces in the crowd!
LINK: Yeiser Art Center
LINK: Yeiser Art Center
Contest Deadline Extension: Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest
CONTEST DEADLINE NOW EXTENDED TO MARCH 22, 2010
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 ROXANA RIVERA MEMORIAL POETRY CONTEST
Join SIUC’s Creative Writing and Women’s Studies Programs as we honor the memory of a wonderful poet and celebrate Women’s History Month.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera (1977-2003), who was a first-year creative writing graduate student from Lynwood, California. Roxana, a graduate of California State University Long Beach, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English. While at SIUC, Roxana was a PROMPT Scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.
To remember this special woman and poet, a campus-wide poetry contest will be held, with divisions for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Gift certificates will be awarded as prizes in both divisions:
$55 for first place $35 for second place $25 for third place
This contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Students of all majors are encouraged to participate in this contest.
This Year’s Theme: “Things I Would Do For You”
DEADLINE: Monday, March 22, 2010 at 4pm
Submission Guidelines: Submit an entry packet with:
1) A cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and poem titles. Indicate on your cover sheet whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.
2) Poem(s) on individual sheets (one poem only per page). No identifying information on the poems themselves, please. There is no entry fee, but there is a limit of three poems per entrant. If sending entries via e-mail, please send in rtf file format only.
The contest theme is provided to spark your creativity, and entries that reflect upon the theme in the lives of women are particularly welcome.
Entry packets should be submitted to Prof. Allison Joseph, English Dept., Faner Hall 2380, Mail Code 4503. Entries may be sent via campus mail or dropped off at the English Department office (Faner Hall 2380) during regular campus office hours. Entries can also by e-mailed to roxpoetrycontest*at*gmail.com (replace (at) with @)
Winners will be honored at a special awards ceremony to be held March 29, 2010.
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 ROXANA RIVERA MEMORIAL POETRY CONTEST
Join SIUC’s Creative Writing and Women’s Studies Programs as we honor the memory of a wonderful poet and celebrate Women’s History Month.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera (1977-2003), who was a first-year creative writing graduate student from Lynwood, California. Roxana, a graduate of California State University Long Beach, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English. While at SIUC, Roxana was a PROMPT Scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.
To remember this special woman and poet, a campus-wide poetry contest will be held, with divisions for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Gift certificates will be awarded as prizes in both divisions:
$55 for first place $35 for second place $25 for third place
This contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Students of all majors are encouraged to participate in this contest.
This Year’s Theme: “Things I Would Do For You”
DEADLINE: Monday, March 22, 2010 at 4pm
Submission Guidelines: Submit an entry packet with:
1) A cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and poem titles. Indicate on your cover sheet whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.
2) Poem(s) on individual sheets (one poem only per page). No identifying information on the poems themselves, please. There is no entry fee, but there is a limit of three poems per entrant. If sending entries via e-mail, please send in rtf file format only.
The contest theme is provided to spark your creativity, and entries that reflect upon the theme in the lives of women are particularly welcome.
Entry packets should be submitted to Prof. Allison Joseph, English Dept., Faner Hall 2380, Mail Code 4503. Entries may be sent via campus mail or dropped off at the English Department office (Faner Hall 2380) during regular campus office hours. Entries can also by e-mailed to roxpoetrycontest*at*gmail.com (replace (at) with @)
Winners will be honored at a special awards ceremony to be held March 29, 2010.
Congrats to Renee Evans!
Happy news this morning from Renee Evans (MFA '09, fiction):
My short short "The Fifth Jar" has been picked up for the June issue of Weave magazine.
Congrats, Renee!
LINK: Weave
My short short "The Fifth Jar" has been picked up for the June issue of Weave magazine.
Congrats, Renee!
LINK: Weave
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Reading Tomorrow: Corrected Location
MARCH 18, 2010
Allison Joseph and Allison Funk Poetry Reading
SIUC Student Center OHIO (not Mississippi Room), 4PM
Allison Funk is the author of four books of poems: The Tumbling Box (C & R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).
She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Allison Joseph is the author of six books of poems, including the recently released My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books, 2010). She is director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SIUC, and also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard
Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be for sale after the reading.
Allison Joseph and Allison Funk Poetry Reading
SIUC Student Center OHIO (not Mississippi Room), 4PM
Allison Funk is the author of four books of poems: The Tumbling Box (C & R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).
She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Allison Joseph is the author of six books of poems, including the recently released My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books, 2010). She is director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SIUC, and also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard
Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be for sale after the reading.
Two Amazing Upcoming Events: March 24/25, 2010
Two amazing upcoming events: March 24/25, 2010---one at John A. Logan, one on campus at SIUC.
Sundown Towns and Why They are Important in Southern Illinois
A free lecture by Dr. James Loewen
O’Neil Auditorium, John A. Logan College
Thursday, March 25, 3:30 p.m.
Sundown towns are communities that excluded African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans or other minorities) by force, law, or custom. These communities are called “sundown towns” because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, “N-----, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On You In…” Some towns are still all white on purpose.
Professor James Loewen, author of the book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and creator of
the online newsletter The Sundown Town News: A Newsletter Dedicated to the Abolition of its Subject, has identified thousands of such towns across the country, including at least 440 in Illinois. Many of these towns are in southern Illinois, including several in the John A. Logan College district.
For more information, contact David Cochran at (618) 985-2828, extension 8689
Thursday, March 25, 3:30 p.m.
John A. Logan College - O’Neil Auditorium
The talk is free and open to the public
And:
The Black Affairs Council will be hosting an event for Women's History Month. We have invited Audrey Petty, Director of MFA-Creative Writing Program at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. The lecture will be held on March 24, 2010 at 7:00P.M
Title of lecture:
Up South, Southside: Girlhood in the Promised Land: A Collection of Essays about Identity, Family, food and Place
LECTURE DESCRIPTION:
She will be presenting an excerpt from Up South, Southside: Girlhood in the Promised Land, a memoir-in-progress. As a whole, the work is concerned withthe interplay between place and identity. With the occasion of a road trip South
with her husband and infant daughter as a structural framework for the narrative,she has set out to consider how the Great Migration has defined her family’s story and also shaped her own inner compass.
Audrey Petty, an award-winning author and Associate Professor/Director of the Creative Writing Program -English Department at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, will discuss her current work on an oral history of the Chicago Housing Authority’s high-rise housing projects. Petty’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review and Cimarron Review. Among her other accomplishments, Ms. Petty has been awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Colony, the Richard Soref Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she’s also been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and the Hewlett Foundation. For more information contact Black Affairs Council at 618-453-2534.
Sundown Towns and Why They are Important in Southern Illinois
A free lecture by Dr. James Loewen
O’Neil Auditorium, John A. Logan College
Thursday, March 25, 3:30 p.m.
Sundown towns are communities that excluded African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans or other minorities) by force, law, or custom. These communities are called “sundown towns” because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, “N-----, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On You In…” Some towns are still all white on purpose.
Professor James Loewen, author of the book Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism and creator of
the online newsletter The Sundown Town News: A Newsletter Dedicated to the Abolition of its Subject, has identified thousands of such towns across the country, including at least 440 in Illinois. Many of these towns are in southern Illinois, including several in the John A. Logan College district.
For more information, contact David Cochran at (618) 985-2828, extension 8689
Thursday, March 25, 3:30 p.m.
John A. Logan College - O’Neil Auditorium
The talk is free and open to the public
And:
The Black Affairs Council will be hosting an event for Women's History Month. We have invited Audrey Petty, Director of MFA-Creative Writing Program at University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign. The lecture will be held on March 24, 2010 at 7:00P.M
Title of lecture:
Up South, Southside: Girlhood in the Promised Land: A Collection of Essays about Identity, Family, food and Place
LECTURE DESCRIPTION:
She will be presenting an excerpt from Up South, Southside: Girlhood in the Promised Land, a memoir-in-progress. As a whole, the work is concerned withthe interplay between place and identity. With the occasion of a road trip South
with her husband and infant daughter as a structural framework for the narrative,she has set out to consider how the Great Migration has defined her family’s story and also shaped her own inner compass.
Audrey Petty, an award-winning author and Associate Professor/Director of the Creative Writing Program -English Department at the University of Illinois-Champaign Urbana, will discuss her current work on an oral history of the Chicago Housing Authority’s high-rise housing projects. Petty’s poetry has been published in Crab Orchard Review and Cimarron Review. Among her other accomplishments, Ms. Petty has been awarded a residency at the Hedgebrook Colony, the Richard Soref Scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and the Tennessee Williams Fellowship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Her fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she’s also been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Illinois Arts Council and the Hewlett Foundation. For more information contact Black Affairs Council at 618-453-2534.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Women's History Month: Upcoming Events
Check out this calendar of upcoming Women's History Month events:
Women's History Month events
Women's History Month events
Recent & Upcoming Alumni Publications: Hamm and Meyerhofer
from Justin Hamm (MFA, fiction '05):
Wanted to drop a line to let you know about some of my recent acceptances and so forth. First of all, Artocratic has a poem of mine, "Apocalypses I Covet, Apocalypses I Don't," in the March issue, and Plains Song Review's blog features a recording of me reading "illinois, my apologies," which they published last year.
Also, "the electric widower" appears in jmww's recently released "Best of" anthology IV and they'll feature a recording of the poem on their blog in conjunction with that in the near future, while in April, my poem "down home" will appear in decomP.
And finally, my short story, "I Am Not Lenny Coolidge" will appear in the inaugural issue of Revisitations later this month.
from Michael Meyerhofer (MFA, poetry, '06):
Got a few braggy poetry updates to pass on... “Number Twenty-Five,” was taken by Anti-Poetry, “Dedication” was taken by Rattle, “Dear Leviticus” was taken by Southern Indiana Review, “Affirmative Action” was taken by African American Review, and “The World’s Oldest Dildo” was taken by Juked. Also, my reviews of David Linton’s The Selected Poems of Li Po and Barbara Louise Ungar’s The Origin of the Milky Way were taken by Rattle.
Congrats JH and MM!
Wanted to drop a line to let you know about some of my recent acceptances and so forth. First of all, Artocratic has a poem of mine, "Apocalypses I Covet, Apocalypses I Don't," in the March issue, and Plains Song Review's blog features a recording of me reading "illinois, my apologies," which they published last year.
Also, "the electric widower" appears in jmww's recently released "Best of" anthology IV and they'll feature a recording of the poem on their blog in conjunction with that in the near future, while in April, my poem "down home" will appear in decomP.
And finally, my short story, "I Am Not Lenny Coolidge" will appear in the inaugural issue of Revisitations later this month.
from Michael Meyerhofer (MFA, poetry, '06):
Got a few braggy poetry updates to pass on... “Number Twenty-Five,” was taken by Anti-Poetry, “Dedication” was taken by Rattle, “Dear Leviticus” was taken by Southern Indiana Review, “Affirmative Action” was taken by African American Review, and “The World’s Oldest Dildo” was taken by Juked. Also, my reviews of David Linton’s The Selected Poems of Li Po and Barbara Louise Ungar’s The Origin of the Milky Way were taken by Rattle.
Congrats JH and MM!
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Upcoming Poetry Reading: Women's History Month
MARCH 18, 2010
Allison Joseph and Allison Funk Poetry Reading
SIUC Student Center Mississippi Room, 4PM
Allison Funk is the author of four books of poems: The Tumbling Box (C & R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).
She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Allison Joseph is the author of six books of poems, including the recently released My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books, 2010). She is director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SIUC, and also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard
Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be for sale after the reading.
Allison Joseph and Allison Funk Poetry Reading
SIUC Student Center Mississippi Room, 4PM
Allison Funk is the author of four books of poems: The Tumbling Box (C & R Press, 2009); The Knot Garden (Sheep Meadow Press, 2002); Living at the Epicenter (Northeastern University Press, 1995); and Forms of Conversion (Alice James Books, 1986).
She is Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.
Allison Joseph is the author of six books of poems, including the recently released My Father’s Kites (Steel Toe Books, 2010). She is director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SIUC, and also serves as editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard
Review.
The reading is free and open to the public. Books by both authors will be for sale after the reading.
Tuesday, March 09, 2010
Joseph on "The Writers' Almanac"
Faculty poet Allison Joseph's poem "Elegy for the Personal Letter" (from her latest book My Father's Kites) was read today by Garrison Keillor on his radio program "The Writers' Almanac." You can hear the poem at
The Writers' Almanac
The Writers' Almanac
Monday, March 08, 2010
Forthcoming Poems from Alumni Poets
Will Tyler (MFA '09) has publication news as does Amy Blache Graziano (MFA '07):
Will:
I got another poem accepted. "My Devil" will be appearing in Clackamas Literary Review.
Amy:
Just got word that Blue Earth Review is taking two poems for their upcoming issue: "Dear Jesus" and "I Wonder if They Do it Anywhere Else."
Congrats, Will and Amy!
LINKS:
Clackamas Literary Review
Blue Earth Review
Will:
I got another poem accepted. "My Devil" will be appearing in Clackamas Literary Review.
Amy:
Just got word that Blue Earth Review is taking two poems for their upcoming issue: "Dear Jesus" and "I Wonder if They Do it Anywhere Else."
Congrats, Will and Amy!
LINKS:
Clackamas Literary Review
Blue Earth Review
Friday, March 05, 2010
Forthcoming Publications: Sexton and Evans
Recent alums Jared Yates Sexton (MFA, fiction, '08) and Kerry James Evans (MFA, poetry, '09) have had new work accepted for forthcoming publication:
Jared: Got word that my story "Just Listen" was accepted by the literary journal BULL for a future issue.
LINK: BULL
Bull
Kerry: North American Review just picked up my poem: "Two Prophecies."
LINK: North American Review
North American Review
Congrats, you two!
Jared: Got word that my story "Just Listen" was accepted by the literary journal BULL for a future issue.
LINK: BULL
Bull
Kerry: North American Review just picked up my poem: "Two Prophecies."
LINK: North American Review
North American Review
Congrats, you two!
Tuesday, March 02, 2010
Accepted Poems by Happy Poets
Today's happy dance news:
First year poet Leslie Adams's poem "And This" has been accepted for publication in the Adirondack Review.
LINK to Leslie's poem:
And This
Second-year poet Mark Brewin's poem "Field Lesson" has been accepted for publication in Copper Nickel.
LINKS:
Adirondack Review
Copper Nickel
First year poet Leslie Adams's poem "And This" has been accepted for publication in the Adirondack Review.
LINK to Leslie's poem:
And This
Second-year poet Mark Brewin's poem "Field Lesson" has been accepted for publication in Copper Nickel.
LINKS:
Adirondack Review
Copper Nickel
Contest for current SIUC Students (Undergrads and Grads)
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 ROXANA RIVERA MEMORIAL POETRY CONTEST
Join SIUC’s Creative Writing and Women’s Studies Programs as we honor the memory of a wonderful poet and celebrate Women’s History Month.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera (1977-2003), who was a first-year creative writing graduate student from Lynwood, California. Roxana, a graduate of California State University Long Beach, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English. While at SIUC, Roxana was a PROMPT Scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.
To remember this special woman and poet, a campus-wide poetry contest will be held, with divisions for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Gift certificates will be awarded as prizes in both divisions:
$55 for first place $35 for second place $25 for third place
This contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Students of all majors are encouraged to participate in this contest.
This Year’s Theme: “Things I Would Do For You”
DEADLINE: Friday, March 19, 2010
Submission Guidelines:
Submit an entry packet with:
1) A cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and poem titles. Indicate on your cover sheet whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.
2) Poem(s) on individual sheets (one poem only per page). No identifying information on the poems themselves, please. There is no entry fee, but there is a limit of three poems per entrant.
The contest theme is provided to spark your creativity, and entries that reflect upon the theme in the lives of women are particularly welcome.
Entry packets should be submitted to Prof. Allison Joseph, English Dept., Faner Hall 2380, Mail Code 4503. Entries may be sent via campus mail or dropped off at the English Department office (Faner Hall 2380) during regular campus office hours. Winners will be honored at a special awards ceremony to be held March 29, 2010.
Join SIUC’s Creative Writing and Women’s Studies Programs as we honor the memory of a wonderful poet and celebrate Women’s History Month.
The Roxana Rivera Memorial Poetry Contest honors the memory of Roxana Rivera (1977-2003), who was a first-year creative writing graduate student from Lynwood, California. Roxana, a graduate of California State University Long Beach, earned her Bachelor’s degree in Women’s Studies and English. While at SIUC, Roxana was a PROMPT Scholar and a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of English.
To remember this special woman and poet, a campus-wide poetry contest will be held, with divisions for both undergraduate and graduate students.
Gift certificates will be awarded as prizes in both divisions:
$55 for first place $35 for second place $25 for third place
This contest is open to all students currently enrolled at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Students of all majors are encouraged to participate in this contest.
This Year’s Theme: “Things I Would Do For You”
DEADLINE: Friday, March 19, 2010
Submission Guidelines:
Submit an entry packet with:
1) A cover sheet with your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, and poem titles. Indicate on your cover sheet whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student.
2) Poem(s) on individual sheets (one poem only per page). No identifying information on the poems themselves, please. There is no entry fee, but there is a limit of three poems per entrant.
The contest theme is provided to spark your creativity, and entries that reflect upon the theme in the lives of women are particularly welcome.
Entry packets should be submitted to Prof. Allison Joseph, English Dept., Faner Hall 2380, Mail Code 4503. Entries may be sent via campus mail or dropped off at the English Department office (Faner Hall 2380) during regular campus office hours. Winners will be honored at a special awards ceremony to be held March 29, 2010.
Forthcoming Publications by Fiction Alums
Good news from Rachel Furey (MFA '09) and Chad Simpson (MFA '06):
from Rachel:
Allison,
Since this story has always been special to me, I'm happy to report
that "Growing Breasts for Spiderman" has finally found an appropriate
home: an anthology titled Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra.
It will be published by Inkspotter Publishing in Sept.
Best,
Rachel
LINK: Inspotter Publishing:
Wait a Minute
from Chad:
Hi, Allison--
My story "Phantoms" (http://freightstories.com/Simpson.html) was just published in Freight Stories No. 6
Phantoms.
"Phantoms" is also the title story of my chapbook of flash fictions and short-shorts, which will be out on April 16th from Origami Zoo Press. More info is available here:
Origami Zoo
I hope all's well.
Cheers,
Chad
from Rachel:
Allison,
Since this story has always been special to me, I'm happy to report
that "Growing Breasts for Spiderman" has finally found an appropriate
home: an anthology titled Wait a Minute, I Have to Take Off My Bra.
It will be published by Inkspotter Publishing in Sept.
Best,
Rachel
LINK: Inspotter Publishing:
Wait a Minute
from Chad:
Hi, Allison--
My story "Phantoms" (http://freightstories.com/Simpson.html) was just published in Freight Stories No. 6
Phantoms.
"Phantoms" is also the title story of my chapbook of flash fictions and short-shorts, which will be out on April 16th from Origami Zoo Press. More info is available here:
Origami Zoo
I hope all's well.
Cheers,
Chad
Monday, March 01, 2010
Congrats to Nick Ostdick!
First-year fiction student NIck Ostdick sends this news:
My story "True Hair" published in December by Storyglossia has been nominated by the mag's editor for a 2010 StorySouth Million Writer's Award. Not quite a Pulitzer or anything, but I'm stoked.
Congrats, Nick!
LINK:
True Hair
My story "True Hair" published in December by Storyglossia has been nominated by the mag's editor for a 2010 StorySouth Million Writer's Award. Not quite a Pulitzer or anything, but I'm stoked.
Congrats, Nick!
LINK:
True Hair
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