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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 |
RECENT NEWS!
Jennifer
Culkin was one of six emerging women
writers selected for a
2008 Rona Jaffee Fellowship--the award ceremony will be held in
New York City and Jennifer will read from her work at NYU.
Tarn Wilson was awarded second place in the Distinguished New Voices contest (submitted
by over 100 MFA programs) from the Iron Horse Literary Review.
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.
Recent graduates have distinguished themselves in the following ways:
2008 Rona Jaffee Fellowship--the award ceremony will be held in
New York City and Jennifer will read from her work at NYU.
Tarn Wilson was awarded second place in the Distinguished New Voices contest (submitted
by over 100 MFA programs) from the Iron Horse Literary Review.
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
Nonfiction book, Beacon Press
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
• Internships, WritingItReal.com
• 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 panels at AWP Conference in Atlanta, GA, 2007, New York City, 2008.
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.
Nonfiction book, Beacon Press
Winner of the Chapbook Award from Floating Bridge Press
Lost Horse Press New Poets Series
Full-length book, Foothills Press
~
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
• Internships, WritingItReal.com
• 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 panels at AWP Conference in Atlanta, GA, 2007, New York City, 2008.
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.
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