Community Digest: Books, Publications, and Awards
Friends of Writers concludes 2020 by celebrating the achievements of more members of our community. Happy New Year!
Alumna and faculty member Dilruba Ahmed’s (poetry ’09) Poem “Phase One” was featured on Poetry Unbound podcast:
Long-time Faculty member Charles Baxter’s novel THE SUN COLLECTOR was published by Pantheon.
Don Colburn’s (poetry ’92) poem “The Thing About Perfection” was the winner of Ruth Stone Poetry Prize. https://hungermtn.org/the-thing-about-perfection-don-colburn/
Laura Egger’s (poetry ’16) poetry manuscript is the winner of the Juniper Prize (U of Mass.)
Helena Fox (fiction 99) has won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award for her novel HOW IT FEELS TO FLOAT.
Victoria Korth (poetry ’18) won the Montreal Poetry Prize.
Leigh Lucas (poetry ’17) won AWP’s Kurt Brown Prize for poetry.
Muriel Nelson’s (poetry ’96) chapbook, PLEASE HOLD, won Encircle Publication’s 2020 Poetry Chapbook Contest. https://blog.superstitionreview.asu.edu/2020/11/23/contributor-update-muriel-nelson/
Maya Phillips’ (poetry ’17) Collection EROU was selected the winner of the Balcones Fiction Prize.
Mike Puican (poetry ’09) published a new collection of poetry, Central Air
Margaret Ray (poetry ’20) won the 2020 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for her manuscript Superstitions of the Mid-Atlantic.
Somayeh Shams (fiction ’14) was awarded a 2020 Rubys Artist Grant for novel “Tombak.” https://www.rwdfoundation.org/news/2020rubysannouncement
Faculty Member Debra Spark published And Then Something Happened: Essays on Fiction Writing.
New faculty member Lysley Tenorio’s novel The Son of Good Fortune was published by Ecco.
Rachel Wolff (fiction ’19) was selected for the Center for Fiction Emerging Writers Fellowship.
Tracy Youngblom’s (fiction ’03) story “Three Wines” appeared in The Green Mountain Review.
Martha Zweig’s (poetry ’98) 4th poetry collection GET LOST won The Rousseau Prize for Literature, is out from DHP/Dream Horse Press.
