Quarterly Digest of Books and Awards

51QAYcWencL._SL500_AA300_Faculty member Peter Turchi‘s new book A Muse and a Maze is due out from Trinity UP in November.

 

 

Alumna Peggy Shinner (fiction, ’94) is listed in New City’s Lit 50 2014: Who Really Books in Chicago.

 

 

cover250Alumna Andy Young‘s (poetry, ’11) book of poems, All Night It Is Morning, is available from Diálogos Books.

 

 

Alumna Michaela Carter (poetry, ’95) talks with BookClub Girl about her debut novel Further Out Than You Thought (William Morrow).

 

 

41zBvLBJDsLFaculty member Antonya Nelson‘s new short story collection Funny Once is available from Bloomsbury USA.

 

 

Alumnus James Robert Herndon (fiction, ’11) has won the Omnidawn Fabulist Fiction Chapbook Prize for his book Mammals.

 

 

Alumna Genanne Walsh (fiction, ’04) won Black Lawrence Press’s The Big Moose Prize for her novel Twister.

 

 

Alumna Victoria Chang (poetry, ’05) won the California Book Award’s silver medal for her book, The Boss, published by McSweeney’s Poetry Series.

 

 

91QUV6WaJZLAlumna Rose McClarney‘s (poetry, ’10) poetry collection Its Day Being Gone is available from Penguin.

 

 

Alumna Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet (poetry, ’05) won the 2014 Frost Place Chapbook Contest for her collection Tulips, Water, Ash.

 

 

91xi2Q8F9DLFaculty member Michael Parker‘s new novel, All I Have in This World, is out now from Algonquin Books.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Alumna Patricia Grace King‘s (fiction, ’13) “Small Country” is available exclusively on Kindle from Ploughshares Solos.

 

GetImageFaculty member Anthony Doerr‘s new novel, All the Light We Cannot See, is now available from Fourth Estate Press.

 

Alumna Laura Van Prooyen‘s (poetry, ’10) second book is forthcoming from Ashland Poetry Press. The book, Our House Was on Fire, nominated by Philip Levine, was awarded the McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press. The book is set for release in January 2015.

 

9781937658175Alumnus Brian Blanchfield‘s (poetry, ’99) new collection of poems, A Several World, is now available from Nightboat Books.

 

Alumna Beverly Bie Brahic‘s (poetry, ’06) translation of Hélène Cixous, Twists and Turns in the Heart’s Antarctic, has been longlisted for the PEN Translation Prize, Judged by Ann Goldstein, Becka McKay, and Katherine Silver.

 

Faculty Member A. Van Jordan‘s book, The Cineaste, has been longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award.

 

An excerpt from alumna Christine Fadden‘s (fiction, ’09) novel-in-progress has won the Grand Prize in the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival’s 2014 Fiction Contest.

 

Alumna Nan Cuba‘s (fiction, ’89) novel has won the Texas Institute of Letters Steven Turner Award for Best Work of First Fiction.

 

“In Full Velvet”, a new poem by alumna Jenny Johnson (poetry, ’11), appears in the print edition of the New England Review.

 

COVERnew4Two poems by alumnus Tommye Blount (poetry, ’12), “What Are We Not For” and “The Black Umbrella”, appear in the print edition of the New England Review.

 

Alumnus Matthew Zanoni Muller‘s (fiction, ’10) new book, Drops on the Water: Stories About Growing Up from a Father and Son, is now available from Apprentice House Press.

 

A poem entitled “Driftmouth” by alumna Faith Holsaert (fiction, ’82) appears in The Journal of Kentucky Studies.

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Faculty and Alumna Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Faculty members Christopher Castellani and Mary Szybist and alumna Meghan O’Rourke (poetry, ’05) are among the 177 scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships.

To read more about the Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2014 Fellows, visit the website here.

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Faculty and Alumna Awarded Prizes from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced the names of 20 writers who will receive its 2014 awards in literature. The awards will be presented in New York in May at the Academy’s annual Ceremonial. The literature prizes, totaling $230,000, honor both established and emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Academy’s 250 members nominate candidates, and a rotating committee of writers selects winners. This year’s committee members were Louis Begley, Louise Glück, Alison Lurie, Francine Prose, Mark Strand and Charles Wright.

An Arts and Letters Award in Literature, honoring exceptional accomplishment in any genre, has been awarded to James Longenbach;

A one year residency in the American Academy in Rome, the Rome Fellowship in Literature, has been awarded to alumna Krys Lee (fiction, ’08);

The Arthur Rense Poetry Prize, given triennially to an exceptional poet, has been awarded to Ellen Bryant Voigt.

Congratulations to all the award winners!

 

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Ross White’s “Quae Nocent Saepe Docent”

A new poem by alumnus Ross White (poetry, ’08) appeared on Poetry Daily, Saturday, November 23, 2013.

Ross’s poem originally appeared in the current issue of New England Review (Vol. 34, #2), which also features work by alumnus Cody Heartz (poetry, ’13), and faculty members Laura Kasischke, Dana Levin, and Megan Staffel.

Quae Nocent Saepe Docent

My bow-legs crossed, I sat before someone I thought the great teacher.
His whole body a fist, he said, “Pain is the great teacher.”

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“The Living” by faculty member Christopher Castellani will be published as the new Ploughshares Solo, a digital-only series of individual long stories.

 

41uPgpLO0oLDavid Haynes‘ new novel, A Star in the Face of the Sky, is now available from New Rivers Press.

 

Alumnus Jamaal May‘s collection of poems, Hum, is now available from Alice James Books.

 

New work by faculty members C. Dale Young and Stephen Dobyns appears in the print edition of the November / December issue of American Poetry Review.

 

headwatersEllen Bryant Voigt‘s new collection of poems, Headwaters, is now available from Norton.

 

Alumna Nan Cuba‘s (fiction, ’89) new novel, Body and Bread, won the 2013 PEN/Southwest Book Award in Fiction, selected by  Miroslav Penkov.

 

The new anthology, The Rag-Picker’s Guide to Poetry: Poets, Poems, Process, edited by Eleanor Wilner and Maurice Manning, and featuring work by many Warren Wilson faculty members, is now available from University of Michigan Press.

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Alumni and Faculty at The Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award Ceremony

Warren Wilson alumni and faculty gathered for the 2013 Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award Ceremony and Reading in New York last month. Alumna Margaree Little (poetry, ’12) was awarded the prize, among five others:

2013jaffegroupwebcropLeft to Right: Margaree Little (poetry, ’12) with fellow award recipients Jill Sisson Quinn, Tiffany Briere, Kristen Dombek, Ashleee Crews and Kristin Valdez Quade. Joan Wickersham, the guest speaker, is pictured at center. Photo Credit: Star Black.

Jaffe Reading 1Left to Right: Ray Daniels (fiction, ’10), Lia Greenwell (poetry, ’13), Margaree Little (poetry, ’12), Director of the MFA Program Debra Allbery, Nathan McClain (poetry, ’13), and Catherine Barnett (poetry, ’02). 

Molly and JenMargaree Little and faculty member Jennifer Grotz, who was a 2007 Rona Jaffe Writers’ Award recipient, at the Award Ceremony.

The Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award recipients’ reading at NYU is now available as a podcast:

http://www.cwp.fas.nyu.edu/page/podcast#30672
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Quarterly Digest of Awards and Books

Victoria Chang (poetry, ’05), discussing and reading from her new book, The Boss, appears on NPR’s Marketplace.

Angela Torres (poetry, ’09) is the winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for poetry. Her book, Blood Orange, is available now.

Kathryn Schwille (fiction, ‘99) has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Faculty member David Shields’ new biography of the author J.D. Salinger, Salinger, is available now.

Alumna Marian Szczepanski’s (fiction, ’97) new book, Playing St. Barbara, is available now.

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Monthly Digest of Awards and Books

Victoria Chang (poetry, ’05), discussing and reading from her new book, The Boss, appears on NPR’s Marketplace.

Angela Torres (poetry, ’09) is the winner of the Willow Books Literature Award for poetry. Her book, Blood Orange, will be  published in September 2013.

Kathryn Schwille (fiction, ‘99) has been awarded a $10,000 fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Faculty member David Shields’ new biography of the author J.D. Salinger, Salinger, is available now.

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Faculty Member and Alumna in EDNA: A Journal of the Millay Colony for the Arts

Faculty member Maud Casey and alumna Jeneva Stone (poetry, ’07) are featured in latest issue of EDNA, “an annual compendium of work from artists-in-residence at the Millay Colony for the Arts, artists’ residency program and artist’ center extraordinaire.”

Read more from the online publication at the website. 

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