Participant Responses and News

"I can't say enough good about the program. It's been a great light in my life."  —Participant, 2005 - 2008
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The News Tribune: Poetry lives in the in-between places www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/6456443p-5751454c.html
PLU Campus Voice: MFA Students Earn Top Honors news.plu.edu/node/1670

NEWS!

Amy Andrews has won the first-ever Creative Nonfiction MFA Program-Off!
Lee Gutkind selected the winning piece, which will be published in "The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3,"
 W. W. Norton.  The winner will be announced at a reading on Thursday, January 31 at the
Ding Dong Lounge in New York City, in conjunction with Book Culture (formerly Labyrinth Books).

Elea Carey has been included in18 Lies and 3 Truths: The 2007 SQ Annual
Eighteen great stories and three essays on the art of writing by today’s master storytellers:
Rick Bass, Richard Bausch, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler, Alice Hoffman,
Gail Godwin, Charles Johnson, Jhumpa Lahiri, Lorrie Moore, and Joyce Carol Oates,
as well as by some of today's best up-and-coming authors.

ACHIEVEMENTS:


Recent graduates have distinguished themselves in the following ways:

BOOKS AND CHAPBOOKS
Winner of the Chapbook Award from Floating Bridge Press
Lost Horse Press New Poets Series
Full-length book, Foothills Press
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FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.

• Winner of the Prairie Schooner Prize for Poetry, Publication by the University of Nebraska Press;
listed as one of the best books of poetry in 2006 by the American Library Association.

• 1st Place in Poetry, The Atlantic Monthly Student Contest, 2007; publication in The Atlantic Monthly.

• 2nd place in Nonfiction, The Atlantic Monthly Student Contest, 2006.

• Essay published in The Georgia Review; winner of 2007 GAMMA Gold Award for Best Feature
from the Magazine Association of the Southeast; republished in Utne Review.

• Jack Straw Fellowship.

• Finalist: Bellingham Review's 2007 Annie Dillard Award

MISCELLANEOUS
• Internships, Copper Canyon Press

• Founded a radio show/reading series: River & Sound Review.

• Short story, “The Yellow Bird,” made into a short film by Smiling Toad Productions of Canada;
premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, went on to win the Golden Sheaf Award at the Yorkton Film Festival
 in Canada, a “Golden Monkey’ Award in Leicester, England, the Audience Choice  for Best
International Film in Cologne, Germany, and a Remi Award at Houston’s Worldfest.

 • Served on panel at AWP Conference in Atlanta, GA, 2007

PUBLICATIONS
• Compiled an anthology on Alzheimer’s Disease, with an introduction by Tess Gallagher;
accepted for publication by Kent State University Press.

• Published reviews in Colorado Review and Rattle.

Recent News Releases:


THE GEORGIA REVIEW WINS 2007 NATIONAL MAGAZINE AWARD IN ESSAYS

    The Georgia Review, the University of Georgia’s widely esteemed quarterly journal of arts and letters, was awarded the 2007 National Magazine Award in Essays during a May 1 evening ceremony held at The Jazz Club of Lincoln Center in New York City. The other finalists in the essays category were The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Foreign Policy, and New Letters.  The National Magazine Awards, given annually by the American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) since 1966, honor a wide variety of magazine elements, including fiction, photography, design, reviews and criticism, personal service, profiles, and general excellence. The award to The Georgia Review was given for newcomer Michael Donohue’s “Russell and Mary,” which appeared in the journal’s sixtieth-anniversary issue (Fall/Winter 2007). Acting Editor Stephen Corey accepted the award from Carrie Fisher, who participated in the festivities along with fellow actor Kevin Bacon, “This America Life” host Ira Glass, and other media figures.


   THE GEORGIA REVIEW  Wins Seven 2007 GAMMA Awards

    The Georgia Review, the University of Georgia’s nationally acclaimed quarterly journal of arts and letters, recently earned three gold awards, three silver, and one bronze in the 2007 GAMMA Awards competition, conducted by the Magazine Association of the Southeast.  The gold award for Best Feature went to Jennifer Culkin’s “Ichthyosis,” a brief but intense anecdotal glimpse into the life of a neonatal intensive care nurse as she tends a single newborn infant with a deadly birth defect.  The third gold earned by The Georgia Review was in the Best Series or Topic Coverage category and went collectively to a half-dozen works from the Fall/Winter 2007 issue, which focused on letters to celebrate the journal’s sixtieth year of continuous publication. The central piece in this entry was a 100-page feature titled “‘Into the Hectic Unknown’: Correspondence from the Archives of The Georgia Review, 1947-76.” This gathering of author/editor correspondence included letters by Conrad Aiken, Pearl S. Buck, James Dickey, Albert Einstein, Flannery O’Connor, E. B. White, and many others.  The silver award in the Best Series or Topic Coverage also went to the Review, this for six reviews and essay-reviews of poetry and poetry-related books, among them “Grouching Toward Bethlehem” by Judith Kitchen, “The Alignments” by Paul Zimmer, and “Where Do We Discover What We Believe” by Jeff Gundy.