Roundup of 2021 Awards and Publication News from Faculty and Alums
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Faculty member Kaveh Akbar had poems in Ploughshares Spring 21
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Lontime faculty member Charles Baxter was selected as the winner of the 2021 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story
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Beverly Bie Brahic’s (poetry ’06) essay on Charles Baudelaire was featured in the Times Literary Supplement
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Faculty member Marianne Boruch’s poem “The Lyrebird, Hidden. His Dance, Hidden. His Wish” was featured on Poetry Daily
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Reginald Dwayne Betts (poetry ’10) was named a 2021 MacArthur Fellow
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Faye Dillof’s (poetry ’15) poem “Private Practice” in Ploughshares Issue Winter 2021
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Alyson Mosquera Dutemple’s (fiction ’19) flash fiction story, “Ancient History,” appears in The Middle of a Sentence, The Common Breath’s short prose anthology.
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Rebecca Foust’s (poetry ’10) poems “And For a Time,” and “Crack” were published in NEW LETTERS journal, Spring 2021 and reprinted in PORTSIDE POETRY 5/28/21
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Sharon Gelman (fiction ’16) was the winner of the 2021 Page One Prize
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Faculty Member Reginald Gibbons Received the Fuller Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Chicago Literary Hall of Fame.
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Tommy Hays (fiction ’88) was selected as a recipient of North Carolina’s Order of the Longleaf Pine, for persons who have made significant contributions to the state and their communities through their exemplary service and exceptional accomplishments.
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Tariq Lathun (poetry ’18) was named a 2021 Kresge Artist Fellow
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Amy Lin (fiction ’17) had a short story in Ploughshares Spring 21
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Sue Mell (fiction ’16) won Madville Publishing’s Blue Moon Novel Competition for her novel “Provenance.”
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Daniela Molnar’s (poetry ’21) Manuscript “Chorus” won Omnidawn 1st/2nd Poetry Book Prize
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Megan Pinto (poetry ’18) was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s 2021 chapbook contest
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Mike Puican (poetry ’09) had oems published by OPEN: Journal of Arts and Letters
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Greg Rappelye’s poem LETTER TO DOWSIE, FROM ROETHKE IN IRELAND was the first place winner of the Fish Publishing Prize
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Margaret Ray’s (poetry ’20) poem “While Wandering in Montreal…” won the Third Coast Poetry Prize
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Leslie Contreras Schwartz (poetry ’11) was among the 2021 Poets Laureate Fellowship recipients from the Academy of American Poets. She was the Poet Laureate of Houston.
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An essay on Ralph Sneeden’s (poetry ’95) EVIDENCE OF THE JOURNEY was published on Poetry Daily
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TOMORROW: 2021 Books!
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