Friday, November 30, 2007
A Grant for Crab Orchard Review!
Crab Orchard Review is pleased to announce that the journal has received a grant of $6,170 from the Illinois Arts Council. This grant is for general operating support for fiscal year 2008.
Hearty Congratulations to...
Chad Parmenter (MFA '05), whose poem "Batellite, Batellite of Love" was chosen by judge Dean Young as the poetry winner in this year's Black Warrior Review Poetry and Fiction Contest. Chad will receive $1000, and his poem will appear in the Spring 2008 issue of Black Warrior Review.
About this poem, Chad writes:
"These Batman poems have been some of the most fun of anything I've worked on in my life, and your suggestion at SIU-C, to bring in some of the villains, has helped them all, this poem in particular."
Congrats, CP!
Black Warrior Review's website:
Black Warrior Review
About this poem, Chad writes:
"These Batman poems have been some of the most fun of anything I've worked on in my life, and your suggestion at SIU-C, to bring in some of the villains, has helped them all, this poem in particular."
Congrats, CP!
Black Warrior Review's website:
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Writers on the Road Reading--November 30, 2007
The Graduate Writers Forum
of Southern Illinois University Carbondale
presents the second installment of
Writers on the Road
featuring fiction and poetry readings
by graduate writing students from
Columbia College Chicago
and
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Friday, November 30, 2007
SIUC Student Center ~ Mississippi Room
3 p.m. ~ Readers from Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction MFA Program
4 p.m. ~ Readers from University of Missouri - St. Louis’s MFA Program
5 p.m. ~ Readers from Columbia College Chicago’s Poetry MFA Program
All are welcome. Please spread the word.
of Southern Illinois University Carbondale
presents the second installment of
Writers on the Road
featuring fiction and poetry readings
by graduate writing students from
Columbia College Chicago
and
University of Missouri-Saint Louis
Friday, November 30, 2007
SIUC Student Center ~ Mississippi Room
3 p.m. ~ Readers from Columbia College Chicago’s Fiction MFA Program
4 p.m. ~ Readers from University of Missouri - St. Louis’s MFA Program
5 p.m. ~ Readers from Columbia College Chicago’s Poetry MFA Program
All are welcome. Please spread the word.
Monday, November 26, 2007
Reminder: Career Talk for MFAs and Friends
REMINDER:
DO FRIES GO WITH THAT POEM? : A CAREER SEMINAR FOR CREATIVE WRITERS (AND THEIR FRIENDS)
Professors Pinckney Benedict and Allison Joseph invite you to a Career Seminar for MFA students (and any and all other interested students).
Where: Wednesday, November 28
When: from 4-5:30 pm
Where: in the Student Center Missouri Room.
This seminar will focus on
-resume and CV preparation
-job application etiquette for academic & non-academic jobs
-finding and applying for fellowships and grants for creative writers
-applying for/attending writing conferences and colonies
All are welcome to attend.
Event sponsored by the Graduate Writers Forum,
MFA Program in Creative Writing,
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
DO FRIES GO WITH THAT POEM? : A CAREER SEMINAR FOR CREATIVE WRITERS (AND THEIR FRIENDS)
Professors Pinckney Benedict and Allison Joseph invite you to a Career Seminar for MFA students (and any and all other interested students).
Where: Wednesday, November 28
When: from 4-5:30 pm
Where: in the Student Center Missouri Room.
This seminar will focus on
-resume and CV preparation
-job application etiquette for academic & non-academic jobs
-finding and applying for fellowships and grants for creative writers
-applying for/attending writing conferences and colonies
All are welcome to attend.
Event sponsored by the Graduate Writers Forum,
MFA Program in Creative Writing,
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
New poems by Michael Meyerhofer (MFA '06)
New poems by Michael Meyerhofer appear in the latest issue of Arts & Letters (Issue Eighteen, Fall 2007). The poems are "Limbic Self-Loathing, Post Emperor's Chicken," and "Late September."
Congrats, MM!
Congrats, MM!
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Allison Joseph reads tonight at the Ohio State University
The OSU Creative Writing Program Reading Series will present poet Allison Joseph on Thursday, November 15, 2007. Joseph will participate in a Forum/Q&A at 4:00 p.m. and give a public reading at 7:00 p.m. -- both in the Denney Hall Commons Room, 311 Denney Hall.
Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She holds the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
(event description courtesty the Ohio State Univ. English Dept. website).
Allison Joseph is the author of What Keeps Us Here (Ampersand, 1992), Soul Train (Carnegie Mellon, 1997), In Every Seam (Pittsburgh, 1997), Imitation of Life (Carnegie Mellon, 2003) and Worldly Pleasures (Word Press, 2004). Her honors include the John C. Zacharis First Book Prize, fellowships from the Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers Conferences, and an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Poetry. She is editor and poetry editor of Crab Orchard Review and director of the Young Writers Workshop, an annual summer residential creative writing workshop for high school writers. She holds the Judge Williams Holmes Cook Endowed Professorship at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
(event description courtesty the Ohio State Univ. English Dept. website).
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Contest for current SIUC Students (Undergrads and Grads)
Announcing the 2007 Andy P. Smith Writing Contest
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Open to SIUC Undergraduate and Graduate Students only
First prize: $200
Second Prize: $50
First and Second Prizes awarded to both an undergraduate and a graduate student
The topic for this year: How does integrity play a part in the world at large or in your chosen field?
Essay Guidelines:
Length: 1000-1500 words
Submission format:
Do not write your name or any identifying information on the essay.
Submit your essay with a coversheet bearing the following information:
Name
Address, phone number, e-mail (please include permanent contact information if you are graduating
this year).
Year in school and major
Essay title
Essays should be sent to Jennifer Justice (awards coordinator) in the Department of English (Faner 2380-Mailcode 4503, if using campus mail), and should arrive no late than 4 pm, January 30, 2008.
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Open to SIUC Undergraduate and Graduate Students only
First prize: $200
Second Prize: $50
First and Second Prizes awarded to both an undergraduate and a graduate student
The topic for this year: How does integrity play a part in the world at large or in your chosen field?
Essay Guidelines:
Length: 1000-1500 words
Submission format:
Do not write your name or any identifying information on the essay.
Submit your essay with a coversheet bearing the following information:
Name
Address, phone number, e-mail (please include permanent contact information if you are graduating
this year).
Year in school and major
Essay title
Essays should be sent to Jennifer Justice (awards coordinator) in the Department of English (Faner 2380-Mailcode 4503, if using campus mail), and should arrive no late than 4 pm, January 30, 2008.
Monday, November 12, 2007
Upcoming "Writers on the Road" Visitors
Shanie Latham, the source of all that is good, tells me:
"We will be hosting an installment of Writers on the Road on Friday Nov. 30, from 3 to 6:30 p.m., featuring readers from both the poetry and the fiction programs at Columbia College Chicago, as well as readers from University of Missouri - St. Louis."
Welcome Columbia and UMSL writers!
"We will be hosting an installment of Writers on the Road on Friday Nov. 30, from 3 to 6:30 p.m., featuring readers from both the poetry and the fiction programs at Columbia College Chicago, as well as readers from University of Missouri - St. Louis."
Welcome Columbia and UMSL writers!
Friday, November 09, 2007
Rodney Jones, Aimee Mann, and Poetry Daily
Rodney Jones is featured on Poetry Daily today, with the poem "Deathly"--a poem that references both Aimee Mann and Carbondale:
Poetry Daily
Aimee Mann's website:
Aimee Mann
Aimee Mann's website:
Mark Your Calendars: Career Seminar for MFA Graduate Students
Professors Benedict and Joseph will host their annual Career Seminar for MFA students (and whoever else is interested) on Wednesday, November 28 from 4-5:30 pm in the Student Center Missouri Room.
This seminar will focus on
-resume and CV preparation
-job application etiquette for academic & non-academic jobs
-finding and applying for fellowships and grants for creative writers
-applying for/ attending writing conferences and colonies
All are welcome to attend.
Event sponsored by the Graduate Writers Forum,
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
This seminar will focus on
-resume and CV preparation
-job application etiquette for academic & non-academic jobs
-finding and applying for fellowships and grants for creative writers
-applying for/ attending writing conferences and colonies
All are welcome to attend.
Event sponsored by the Graduate Writers Forum,
Department of English, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Road Trip for "Writers on the Road"!
SIUC MFA writers will be taking their act on the road--thanks, Shanie, for the details:
"The details about our first road trip for Writers on the Road: Jason Brown, John Flaherty, Andrew Lewellen, and Shanie Latham will read on the U of Illinois campus as part of their "Voice Reading Series" on Thursday Nov. 15. Reading starts at 8 p.m. and also will include readers other than us (I believe from U of I.) I was not given the actual name of the place we'll be in, but the address is 1209 W. Oregon St. in Urbana."
"The details about our first road trip for Writers on the Road: Jason Brown, John Flaherty, Andrew Lewellen, and Shanie Latham will read on the U of Illinois campus as part of their "Voice Reading Series" on Thursday Nov. 15. Reading starts at 8 p.m. and also will include readers other than us (I believe from U of I.) I was not given the actual name of the place we'll be in, but the address is 1209 W. Oregon St. in Urbana."
Thursday, November 08, 2007
Monday, November 05, 2007
Poemspotting: Melanie Jordan edition
A new poem, "False Attribution," by Melanie Jordan (MFA '01, poetry) appears in the Fall 2007 issue of the Southern Indiana Review.
Jason Brown Poems forthcoming in Post Road
Another gem from the morning mail, from multitalented third-year fiction MFA student Jason Brown:
"Post Road has accepted my poems “My Older Brother, June Bug” and “Name I Will Never Forget” for publication."
Congrats, Jason!
Visit Post Road:
Post Road
"Post Road has accepted my poems “My Older Brother, June Bug” and “Name I Will Never Forget” for publication."
Congrats, Jason!
Visit Post Road:
Post Road
Pushcart for Pinckney!
Pinckney Benedict is way too modest (from my e-mail this morning):
"Hi, Allison. For what it’s worth, I have received Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses 2008. It contains my story, “Mercy,” published in Ontario Review about this time last year."
Congratulations, PB!
"Hi, Allison. For what it’s worth, I have received Pushcart Prize XXXII: Best of the Small Presses 2008. It contains my story, “Mercy,” published in Ontario Review about this time last year."
Congratulations, PB!
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