COMMUNITY DIGEST: AWARDS, LITERARY MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS, AND ETC.
Dilruba Ahmed‘s (poetry ’09) poem “Zodiac” was selected by Naomi Shihab Nye to be featured in THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/magazine/poem-zodiac.html
Jayne Benjulian’s (poetry ’13) poem “Wedding Dress” appears in the new anthology, What They Bring: Poems of Migration and Immigration.
Fay Dillof’s (poetry ’15) poem “Dear You” won the Dogwood Literary Award in Poetry. Fay received $1,000 and her poem will be published in Dogwood’s 2020 edition.
Alyson Dutemple‘s (fiction ’19) short story “Herps” was published in the Winter 2020 issue of Little Patuxent Review.
Lara Egger (poetry ’16) has been selected as the recipient of the 2020 Juniper Prize for Poetry: First Book for her collection How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It.
Rebecca Foust‘s (poetry ’10) poem “Abeyance” from the chapbook THE UNEXPLODED ORDINANCE BIN, was featured on the February 5 edition The Slowdown podcast. The chapbook was the winner of the 2018 Swan Sycthe Press Chapbook Contest, released in November and made Entropy Magazine’s “Best of 2019” list.
Carlos Andrés Gómez (poetry ’18) was selected as recipient of the University of Wisconsin Press Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry by Natasha Tretheway, nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate.
The Association for Mormon Letters honored “Irreversible Things” by Lisa Van Orman Hadley (fiction ’09) with a special award in literature.
Diane Kerr (poetry ’99) was selected as recipient of the University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham Prize in Poetry by Natasha Tretheway, nineteenth U.S. Poet Laureate.
Carrie Mar‘s (poetry ’13) first collection SPECIAL EDUCATION was a winner of the Texas Review Press The X. J. Kennedy Prize.
Reine Marie Melvin’s (fiction ’10) novel THE BETRAYED won two major national book awards: the Philippines’ National Book Award as well as the Palanca Grand Prize for the Novel The Palancas are considered the country’s most prestigious literary award.
Susan Okie’s (poetry ’14) poem “The Rains Begin in Western Kenya” appeared in winter issue of The Little Patuxant Review.
Erou, the first collection of poem by Maya Phillips (poetry ’17) was a finalist for the 2020 PEN Open Book Award.
Martha Rhodes‘ (poetry ’91/current faculty) essay on the poems of Theodore Roethke appeared on Poetry Daily. https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/martha-rhodes-on-theodore-roethkes-the-geranium/
Jason Schneiderman’s (current faculty) essay on Auden’s “Musee Des Beaux Arts” appeared on Poetry Daily. https://poems.com/features/what-sparks-poetry/jason-schneiderman-on-w-h-audens-musee-des-beaux-arts/
Christina Ward-Niven’s (fiction ’18) story “Eileen’s Hand” hand appeared in the Fall 2019 edition of the Antioch Review.
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