CW Professor LeAnne Howe was featured along with Native American artists Nicholas Galanin and Edgar Heap of Birds on "Native America Calling," a live call-in program linking public radio stations, the Internet and listeners together in a thought-provoking national conversation about issues specific to Native communities. The live show aired Tuesday, May 14, and is archived on the Native America Calling website.
An essay by Senior Creative Writing major Nicole Busch, titled "Excerpt from The Scenic Route," will appear in the Spring 2013 issue of The Truth About the Fact: International Journal of Literary Nonfiction, published by the Loyola Marymount University. Nicole has also been invited to read at the journal's publication party in Los Angeles on April 18.
CW Professor LeAnne Howe's most recent book, Seeing Red--Hollywood's Pixeled Skins was recently published by Michigan State Press. Co-authored by Harvey Markowitz and Denise K.Cummings, Seeing Red is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film.
The 2013 winners of the Creative Writing Program's Junior Quinn Awards are Rebecca Kaplan (poetry) and Dana (Dee) Modrowski (prose).
Jaime Brunton (MFA '09) and Russell Evatt (MFA '09) have won the 2012 Dream Horse Press Chapbook Prize for their co-authored poetry manuscript The Future Is a Faint Song. The chapbook will appear in 2013.
Jaime Brunton (MFA '09) received an Honorable Mention for the 2012 Benjamin Saltman Award in Poetry, awarded by Red Hen Press, for her full-length poetry manuscript Reclaimed.
Four U of I creative writing alums were recognized in the Fall 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest by Black Lawrence Press. Matt Minicucci (MFA '10) and Caleb Curtiss (BA '10) were named finalists and Sara Gelston (MFA '12) and Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (MFA '09) were named semi-finalists in the poetry manuscript competition.
Jaime Brunton (MFA '09) was named one of five finalists for the Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Competition, for her full-length poetry manuscript Reclaimed.
Professor LeAnne Howe has been named a 2012 USA Ford Fellow in Literature by United States Artists. Each year, United States Artists honors fifty of America's finest artists with individual fellowship awards of $50,000 each.
Lara Mann (MFA '09) will join the faculty of Haskell Indian Nations University as an English Instructor.
Associate Director of Creative Writing Steve Davenport has a new book of poetry, Overpass out from Misty Publications. More information about the book can be found here, and a recent review appears at Prick of the Spindle. The book is available for purchase through the publisher.
Lindsey Drager (MFA '11) was named a finalist for Starcherone Books' Innovative Fiction prize, for her book-length manuscript titled "The Sorrow Proper."
Richard Pierce (MFA '06) has joined the English faculty at Waynesburg University at the rank of Assistant Professor.
Rosalie Morales Kearns's (MFA '06) debut book, a collection of short stories entitled Virgins and Tricksters is appearing in September from Aqueous Books. Author Marge Piercy writes that Virgins and Tricksters is "full of succinct, smart tales rooted in and rooting around in a female-centered spirituality." Stories from the collection previously appeared in journals including Painted Bride Quarterly, Terrain, and Specs.
Matthew Minicucci (MFA '10) was a finalist in Accents Publishing's 2012 Poetry Chapbook Contest, and his manuscript Reliquary was selected for publication by the press.
Russell Evatt (MFA '09) has been named a finalist for the 2012 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. Five Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowships in the amount of $15,000 will be awarded to young poets through a national competition sponsored by the Poetry Foundation.
Download Professor Philip Graham's critically acclaimed collection of essays, The Moon, Come to Earth for free during the month of July, when it is the University of Chicago Press's feature free e-book.
No Animals We Could Name, a collection of short stories by Ted Sanders (BA '04, MFA '07), was published in July by Graywolf Press. The collection was the 2011 winner of the Bakeless Prize in Fiction, an annual award given to a first book of fiction by an emerging author.
Sara Gelston (MFA '12) was named the 2012-13 Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow by the University of Wisconsin. The fellowship includes a $27,000 stipend and a one-year teaching appointment in the University of Wisconsin's Creative Writing Program.
Professor LeAnne Howe was named the 2012 recipient of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award. A ceremony honoring Professor Howe will take place during the Returning the Gift Native Writers gathering at the Menominee Reservation in Wisconsin later this year.
Professor Alex Shakar's latest novel Luminarium was honored as one of the best books of 2011 at the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize ceremony, where it received the award for fiction.
CW alum Phillip B. Williams (BA '08) recently won Bloom journal's 2011 Chapbook Competition with his poetry manuscript titled Bruised Gospels.
MFA candidate in fiction Eric Tanyavutti received an Honorable Mention in the 2012 AWP Intro Journals Awards for his essay titled "Rough." The Intro Journals Project is an annual literary competition for writers who are currently enrolled in the member writing programs of AWP. Each candidate for the awards must be nominated by his or her program.
Professor Philip Graham's memoir The Moon, Come to Earth is the University of Chicago Press's free e-book download for the month of March. The offer is good through March 31.
A post from Professor Philip Graham's blog, titled "What Casablanca Can Teach a Writer," is one of 9 finalists chosen for the 3 Quarks Daily 2012 Arts & Literature Prize. The winner will be chosen by judge Gish Jen and announced on March 19.
Professor Philip Graham's critically acclaimed travel memoir The Moon, Come to Earth has recently been published in a Portuguese edition titled Do Lado de Cá do Mar. The Portuguese edition is available from Editorial Presença.
Matthew Minicucci (MFA '10) was named runner-up among the finalists for the 2012-2013 Stadler Fellowship at Bucknell University.
Ted Sanders (BA '04, MFA '07) has received a 2012 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. NEA Fellows receive $25,000 each in grant money to support their writing.
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