Congrats to Nick Ostdick (MFA '11, fiction)

Congrats to Nick Ostdick!

Hope all is well. Some good news this morning: Corium Magazine has
accepted my very short story 'Columbus Day' for publication in the
upcoming fall issue. Should be out in a few weeks, I think. It's a
great pub and I'm stoked to be involved with it.

Graduate Students to Read from their Work!!

The first In-House Reading of the Fall Semester will feature creative writing graduate students Andreas Willhoff and Dan Paul reading from their fiction, and Laura Ruffino and Robert Parrott reading from their poetry

Thursday, October 18th at 4pm at the Old Baptist Recital Hall (red brick building north of Faner Hall).

Free and open to the public!

Forthcoming for Ryan Crawford

A poem and a story are forthcoming for first-year fiction MFA Ryan Crawford:

Just got word from Prime Mincer that my story, "There's No One Down
There," will be published in the anthology The Man Date: Fifteen Bromance
Stories, alongside our own Pinckney Benedict, alum Shawn Mitchell, and
several other very talented folks including Rick Bass and Alan Heathcock.

In addition, Ryan's poem "In the Park" is forthcoming in New York Quarterly.

Congrats, Ryan!

Poem Publication for Mark Jay Brewin, Jr!

from Mark Brewin (MFA '11):

Ahoy there, Allison.

I am pleased to say that Roanoke Review has accepted my poem "Aubade"
for publication in their Spring 2013 issue. Nice nice.

-mb.

Congrats, Mark!!!

Congrats to Elena Pearson

Poetry alum (MFA '07)  Elena Person's poem "A Nigerian Refugee" is forthcoming in Off the Coast Magazine.

Congrats, Elena!

Allison Joseph to read at Pittsburg State

SIUC faculty poet will read from her work as a visiting writer at
Pittsburg (KS) State:

http://www.pittstate.edu/news/distinguished-writers-series-brings-poet-to-campus

Congrats to Nick Ostdick (MFA '12)

Recent fiction grad Nick Ostdick writes with this lovely news:

Exit 7 has accepted my story "Somewhere Between This World and
Another" for publication in their next issue, due out in February. I'm
way geeked.

Congrats, Nick! We miss you in the Dale!

new OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES includes Pinckney Benedict

SIUC fiction faculty member is included in state-of-the-art fiction anthology!

 

My story "Mercy" is included in the new edition of THE OXFORD BOOK OF AMERICAN SHORT STORIES, edited by Joyce Carol Oates, just out from Oxford University Press. It's included with a veritable Murderer's Row of folks, from Washington Irving to Jhumpa Lahiri via Eudora Welty and Ha Jin. Pretty happy about this one.

Here's are links:

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/LiteratureEnglish/AmericanLiterature/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780199744398

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199744394/ref=kinw_rke_rti_1

Congrats, PB!!!

great news for Staci Schoenfeld!

Second-year poet Staci Schoenfeld has lovely news:

I heard from the New Plains Review that they accepted my poem "On
Silent Retreat at The Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, Kentucky." Woot!
It will be out in their Fall 2012 issue. :)

Congrats, Staci!!

More good news for Mark Brewin (MFA '11)

I am pleased to announce that "The Island Meditations"--my ten page
humdinger of a poem in the middle of my first book manuscript--has
been accepted for publication at Connotation Press. One more poem left
to be published!

Congrats, MJB!

Fantastic news for poetry alum Mark Jay Brewin, Jr!!!!

MFA 11' poetry alum Mark Jay Brewin Jr. was just awarded the 2012 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry by contest judge Kathleen Graber. Brewin's winning collection will be published by The University of Utah Press in the spring of 2013. He will receive a cash prize and will give a reading in the University of Utah's Guest Writers Series.

Congratulations, MARK!!!!!

Welcome Scott Blackwood!!!

MFA Carbondale extends a warm welcome to Scott Blackwood, our new fiction professor!  Scott comes to SIUC from Roosevelt University in Chicago, where he directed the creative writing program. For more about Scott, visit his website:
Scott Blackwood's site

forthcoming publication for Austin Kodra:

Second-year poet Austin Kodra received this good news: 

Prime Number Magazine just accepted three of my poems!! "Parentless, in Our Childhood Homes," "Pneuma Airlines," and "New Year's Resolution, March 2012."

Congrats, Austin!!!!

Publications Forthcoming for SIUC MFA Alums

from Ruth Awad  (MFA '12) via Facebook:

Rattle just accepted my poem "Inheritance" for publication!!!!!!

from Helena "Hel" Bell (MFA '08, poetry):

Clarkesworld has accepted my story 'Robot' for an upcoming issue!

Congrats, you lovely writers!

Story Publication for Shawn Andrew Mitchell

News from Shawn Andrew Mitchell (MFA 12, fiction), who is now in Korea:

 

Just thought I'd write to tell you "The Hillbilly in My Pocket" got picked up by the Fairy Tale Review, http://www.fairytalereview.com/

Congrats, Shawn!!! 

new student Lucien Meadows has work accepted!

Incoming MFA student in poetry Lucien Meadows shares this good news!

I am an incoming MFA Poetry student, and I arrived in sunny Carbondale over the weekend. I look forward to starting PSW in six days! When I checked my email for the first time here in Illinois, I learned that Toad, Virginia Tech's excellent literary magazine, has accepted two of my poems, "Arc" and "On Passing Through the Monongahela National Forest at Night," for inclusion in a future issue! Staci (Schoenfeld) said I should send you an email, to let you know, so that you could post the happy acceptance on the MFA Blog. I am excited, particularly as the two poems deal with growing up in West Virginia, and Toad has many readers from the WV and greater Appalachian area. I look forward to meeting you!

Congrats, Lucien and welcome to the MFA Program!

Another acceptance for Staci Schoenfeld!

Second-year poet Staci Schoenfeld has had more work accepted!

I'm happy to announce that "The Patient's Complaint" and "The Patient Talks of Electroshock and Lobster" will be published in the September issue of diode poetry journal! 

Congrats, Staci!

Poem accepted for Staci Schoenfeld

Congrats to second-year poet Staci Schoenfeld:

 

I'm super excited that Bellevue Literary Review has consented to publish my poem "The Patient" in their Fall 2012 issue. Woot!

Alumni Update: Alex Lumans (MFA '09)

Fiction alum Alex Lumans writes with a bevy of good news:

 

My story "Signs and Wonders" is now up at Blackbird. It hails all the way back to my slot in Pinckney's workshop, and there's no way it would be out in the world now without that class.

My story "Phys. Ed. 112 Syllabus: You and Your Apocalypse"  was accepted by Toasted Cake, which does podcast reprints.

I was a finalist in Press 53 2012 Open Awards Contest in the Flash Fiction category.

And an audio version of my poem "Looking over His Shoulder, Eadward Muybridge Addresses the Mirror" that came out in Sycamore Review is now up on their site.

love,
Lumans




http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n1/fiction/lumans_a/signs_page.shtml
http://www.press53.com/OpenAwards_2012.html
http://toastedcake.com/
http://www.sycamorereview.com/audio-archive/audioarchivepoetry/

Congrats to Sequoia Nagamatsu!

Third-year fiction writer Sequoia Nagamatsu has great news to share this Monday morning:

My story "The Silence of the Third Inversion" will be published in the next issue of Redivider. 

Also, this happened a little while ago but this was also the title story in a chapbook that was a finalist in the 2012 Cutbank Chapbook contest.