MFA NEWS
THE NEXT MFA RESIDENCY IS SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 8-18, 2009, IN SEASIDE, OREGON.
STUDENT & ALUMNI AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS, & ANNOUNCEMENTS
WILLIAM ALTON (Poetry, 2006)
- "Because this Man Turns the Soil" and "Abandoned House," poems in Pregnant Moon Review, 1/23/08
DARLA BIELFELDT (Poetry, 2009)
- Was commissioned by the Heartland Opera Troupe to write a libretto for a
children's opera based on Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve's book, The Trickster
and The Troll. The commissioned composer, Kristin Kuster, was one of six
accepted in the American Opera Projects' program "Composers and the Voice,"
and will be setting Act 1 of Darla's libretto as part of her work with the
AOP. American Opera Projects will be presenting the first actin October in NYC, and the full opera will be staged at the Performing Arts Center in Brookings, SD on November 16, 2008.
MICHELLE BITTING (Poetry, 2009)
- "Superman" and "Wild Parrots", two poems to be published in Prairie Schooner, 2009
- "Mother's Day Omen" and "Robertson Boulevard Onramp," poems to be published in Linebreak, Winter 2008
- "First Do No Harm", a poem to be published in Crab Creek Review, Winter 2008
- "In Room 242," finalist for the 2008 Mudfish Poetry Prize
- "Funeral For a Beta Fish," a poem to be published in Siren, 2008
- "That Summer," a poem to be published in Pebble Lake Review, 2008
- "The Feeding," a poem featured on Versedaily, 10/13/08: Read the poem.
- "The Aberfan Series," 4 sonnets for Narrative Magazine, Summer/Fall 2008
- "If I Could I Would," a poem to be published in Many Mountains Moving, Fall/Winter 2008
- "Twyla," a poem to be published in The Pedestal Magazine, June 2008
- "Premiere," a poem to be published in The Valparaiso Review, 2008
- "The Sherpa Called Nawang," a poem to be published in The Long Island Quarterly, 2008
- Featured on the The Moe Green Poetry Hour on The World Wide Word Radio Networks, March 16, 2008
- Good Friday Kiss, a book of poetry, won the DeNovo First Book Award (C & R Press), judged by Thomas Lux, 2007
- "Sweet Pea," a poem to be published in Cider Press Review, Spring 2008
- "Home Zone," a poem published in Pebble Lake Review, Winter, 2007
- "Soft Red Skirt" and "Washed in Flame," poems in 2River View, September 2007
- Named "Poet of Distinction" by the Florence Poets Society for the poem "Newman's Own" to be published in Silkworm, 2007
- Nominated by Valparaiso Review for "Best of the Net" 2007 for the poem "The Exterminator's Wife"
- Blue Laws, a book of poetry published by Finishing Line Press, 2008
- "Remains," a poem in Crab Orchard Review, September 2007
- "4 Sentenced for Smashing Bluebird Houses," a poem in Boxcar Poetry Review, Summer/Fall 2007
- Finalist, 2007 dA Center for the Arts Poetry Competition for the poem "The Edge"
- "Strange Flesh," a poem forthcoming in Passages North, Spring/Summer 2008
- "Anniversary," "Dial O for Oncologist," "Neighbors," three poems in The
Smoking Poet, Summer 2007 - "Be Attitude" and "Pieta," two poems in Blood Orange Review, Summer 2007
- "Galilee," a poem in The New Verse News, Spring 2007
- "About Beryl Mercer, Actress," a poem online in Speechless Web site, 2007
- Semi-finalist, 2007 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition for the book Good Friday Kiss
- "Sex, Love and Robert DeNiro," short prose in Swink, 2007
- Finalist, Washington Square Review Prize, for the poem "That Summer," 2007
- Semi-finalist, Rattle Poetry Prize, for the poem "The Sacrifice," Spring 2007
- Special Merit Finalist, The Comstock Review, for the poem "Killing Lobsters," Spring 2007
- Semi-finalist, Elixer Press Poetry Award, for the book Good Friday Kiss, 2007
- "Water," a poem in Poetry Southeast, Spring 2007
- "When I'm Away in Provincetown," a poem in Quercus Review, Spring/Summer 2007
- "Flowers," a poem in Phoebe, Spring 2007
- "Saturday Afternoons, Royal Theatre," a poem in Speechless, Spring 2007
- "The Exterminator's Wife," a poem in Valparaiso Review, Spring 2007
- "Little Gifts," short short fiction in Narrative Magazine, 2007
- "Reasons to Quit," a prose poem in 21 Stars, 2007
RYAN BRADLEY (Fiction, 2009)
- "Explaining Why I Love You," micro fiction published in the online journal, Six Sentences, 2008
- "I am not Adam, nor am I Brave," and "Not Unlike Mixed Metaphors," poems to be published in Motel 58 in March 2009
- "Jerkwad," a poem to be published on The Beat, an online journal, 2008
- "My Memory Protrudes, but Silently," a poem to be published in the inaugral issue of Yippee Magazine, Fall/Winter 2008
- "Mile Zero," a poem about working in the Arctic, appeared in the Sunday Oregonian on September 7, 2008
- "Long Lost" a short story to be published in A Thousand Faces in 2009
- "You Can't Say No When the Answer is Yes," a flash fiction piece published in The Green Flash #2, August 2008
PAT CASON (Fiction, 2007)
- Finalist, Annual Fiction Contest, So to Speak magazine, for the short story "Mermaid Fire," 2007
- "Mermaid Fire," a short story in CALYX, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Vol. 24, no. 2, Winter 2008
- "Finding Her," a poem published in Oregon East, Issue 36, 2005.
- "My Problem with Perspective," a poem published in Verseweavers, Number
9, 2005.
CATHERINE CONRAD-DIXON (Poetry, 2009)
- "Fireworks Over the Willamette - Independence, Oregon," a poem in the anthollogy Honoring the River, 2008
- " Readjustment," a poem in The Portland Alliance, February 2008
KITTY EVERS (Nonfiction, 2007)
- "Soft Stone" and "Gifts," nonfiction pieces in the online magazine Perigee, Issue 13, October 2006
BRAD FRITSCH (Fiction, 2007)
- Third Place, 2006 Dylan Days Celebration Contest, for the short story "Winter," also published in Talking Blues, 2006
COLLENE FUNK (Nonfiction, 2008)
- Has accpeted an appointment as the 2008-2009 Scholar in Residence at Central Oregon Community College.
CARLY FURRY (Fiction, 2006)
- Awarded a month-long residency at Caldera Artist's Retreat, 2008
- "Double Oar Turn," a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal, May 2008
- "A Hundred Million Fishes," a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal, May 2007
- “Fly on the Line,” a short story in Gray's Sporting Journal (Fly-Fishing Book edition), February 2006
JEANNINE HALL GAILEY (Poetry, 2007)
- See Jeannine's interview with Pattiann Rogers on Poets & Writers at http://www.pw.org/content/interview_poet_pattiann_rogers
- "Advice Given to Me Before My Wedding," a poem published in the Summer 2008
issue of Rattle - "Yume (The Dream)," a poem published in the Spring 2008 issue of 32 Poems
- "The Note the Fox-Wife Leaves Him," a poem published in Rhino 2008
- "Love Letter to Hayao Miyazaki" and "Winter Etude (with Playstation Accompaniment)," two poems chosen as finalists in Smartish Pace poetry contests, and published in
Smartish Pace issue 15 - Featured on the The Moe Green Poetry Hour on The World Wide Word Radio Networks, March 16, 2008
- Interview with Matthea Harvey on the Poetry Foundation Web site, 2008: Read the interview.
- Awarded the top Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize for "Dogwood," "Turning Back," "He Makes Dinner," 2007
- Awarded Washington State's Artist Trust GAP (Grant for Artist Projects) for her book manuscript, "The Woman Disappears," 2007
- "Standing in the Anime Kingdom," a poem in Siren, Issue 4
- "White Bird Sister" and other poems as featured poet in Endicott Studio's Journal of Mythic Arts, Spring 2007
- "Fingernails," a poem in Posse Review, Issue 23
- "The Gift of Tongues" and "The Husband Asks Her," poems in The Harvard Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Spring 2007
- "She Rescues a Fire Demon," a poem in Cranky, Issue 9
- "The Fox-Wife Describes Their Courtship," a poem in The Columbia Poetry Review, Spring 2007
- "The Husband Tries to Write to the Disappearing Wife," a poem in Redactions, Spring 2007
- Finalist, 1st Annual Poetry Southeast Poetry Contest, for the poem "Rapunzel, After," also published in Poetry Southeast, Summer 2007
- Interviewed for her book Becoming the Villainess: Read the interview.
- Garrison Keillor read her poem "Female Comic Book Superheroes " on The Writer's Almanac on July 7, 2006.
- Garrison Keillor read her poem "Spy Girls" on The Writer's Almanac on June 16, 2006: Listen to the poem
- Becoming the Villainess, Steel Toe Books, April 2006
JONATHAN HARRIS (Poetry 2009)
- "Last Request," a poem to be published in Dogwood, 2009
LISA GALLOWAY (Poetry, 2007)
- Liminal: A Life of Cleavage, Lost Horse Press New Poets Series, 2007
- Nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize for her poem "She was a Chagall"
HELEN GERHARDT, published under the name Helen Puciloski (Poetry, 2009)
- "Hindsight" and "Abstract," poems forthcoming in Calyx Journal, 2009
LESLIE GLASSER, published under the name Leslie What (Fiction, 2006)
- Received more reviews for her book Crazy Love:
NewPages Book Reviews
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100902537.html
http://www.newvilnareview.com/features/why-i-wash-the-dead.htmlhttp://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Love-Leslie-What/dp/1877655597/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215711864&sr=8-1 - Interviewed Michael Chabon for Nebula Awards: Read the Interview.
- Crazy Love has earned a starred review from Booklist, Summer 2008.
- Crazy Love, a story collection, has earned a starred review from Publishers Weekly, May 2008: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6559019.html?industryid=47159#SF/Fantasy/Horror
- "Why I Wash the Dead," an essay in The New Vilna Review, April, 2008: http://www.newvilnareview.com/features/why-i-wash-the-dead.html
- "Money is no Object," a short story in Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008
- "My Funny Holocaust," an essay in Midstream Magazine, 2008
- "#1," a short story to be published by Electric Velocipede, Fall 2007
- "Writing Exercises," to be published by The Writer's Guide to
Fiction, Kalmbach Publishing, Fall 2007 - "Frankenfetish," a short story in Flytrap, May 2007
- "Performance Anxiety," a short story in Perigee, July 2007
- Accepted a teaching position in 2007 with the UCLA Extension Writers' Program
- "Tsuris," a short story in the anthology Logorreah from Bantam Books, 2007
- "Post hoc," a short story in Interfictions from Small Beer Press, 2007
- "Living Waters," an essay, third place, student category, Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, 2006
- Nominated for a Nebula Award: "Nirvana High," a short story written in collaboration with Eileen Gunn and published in The James Tiptree Award Anthology #2 (Sex, the Future, And Chocolate Chip Cookies), edited by Karen Joy Fowler, Tachyon Publications, December 2005
- “The Morning Call of Birds,” a short story in The Clackamas Literary Review, March 2006
- "Letter to the Tamarack Tiding," a short story in Talking Back, edited by L. Timmel DuChamp, Aqueduct Press, 2006
- "Nature Mort," a short story in Polyphony #5, November 2005
- "The Mutable Borders of Love," a short story in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #16, Carroll and Graf, edited by Stephen Jones, November 2005
CHARLES GREEN (Fiction, 2007)
- Bright Shadows, Mongoose Publishing, July 2007
- Gods of Law, Chaosium, Inc., December 2006
HARRY GRISWOLD (Poetry, 2007)
- "Friday Evening, No Popcorn," a poem from his book Camera Obscura to appear in the September 23, 2007 Poetry column in The Sunday Oregonian
JONATHAN HARRIS (Poetry, 2009)
- Finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cutthroat, 2007
GWEN JAMES, published under the name Gwen Cash, (Poetry, 2006)
- "Thoughts From a Waiting Room, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC," a poem in Blood Orange Review, 2007
- "Third Day in New York City," a poem forthcoming in Ascent magazine, Winter 2008
- Awarded Washington State's Artist Trust GAP (Grant for Artist Projects) for her book, Acts of Contrition, 2007
- Acts of Contrition, Lost Horse Press New Poets Series, 2007
- "Incantations for Dead Mothers to Speak Over Their Daughters," "For the Dead," "Young Man Sleeping," and "Mirror," poems in Cutthroat, 2007
- Nominated for the 2006 Pushcart Prize for her poem "Choosing Berries and Onions"
- "Choosing Berries and Onions" and "Underworld," poems in the online magazine Perigee, Issue 13, 2006
- “After You,” a poem in Born Magazine, Spring 2006
- “Your Palm Pressed to Mine,” a poem in Birmingham Poetry Review, Fall 2005
KITTY JOSPE (Poetry, 2009)
- Created a poetry appreciation group at her public library that meets weekly
- Is giving a lecture, "A Peak into Poetry," using examples from Heather McHugh, November 12, 2008
- Published two more articles in Poet Talk, October and November 2008 issues:"A Sampling from the New US Poet Laureate, Kay Ryan: Book Review of Elephant Rocks" and "Lines ... and Sentences: Book Review of James Longenbach's Book, The Art of the Poetic Line"
- Performed a "Moon Ladling Lava," a collaborative poetry piece staged among dancers in three performances October 24,25,26. It started as a collaboration organized by the artistic director of Park Avenue Dance Company (in February 2008) with the single word "tension" given to a local musician and to Kitty to work with her choreography.
- Tinkering with Tone," an article in Poet Talk, April-May 2008
KASSANDRA KELLY (Fiction, 2006)
- Awarded a month-long residency at Caldera Artist's Retreat, 2008
SARAH LUNDIN (Fiction, 2007)
- "West's Pond," a short story in Two Hawks Quarterly, November 2007
KATY MCKINNEY (Poetry, 2006)
- "Big Lava Bed in the Gifford Pinchot" and "Pruning Lilac Suckers After My Sister's Diagnosis," poems in Windfall, Spring 2008
- "Finishing the Quilt" and "Pretend Beauty Parlor, 1963," poems in the online journal Lucid Rhythms, August 2008
- "Scientists Discover Singing Iceberg in Antarctica," a poem in Perigee, Issue 22, Fall 2008
- First place in Oregon State Poetry Association's Traditional Verse category in the Fall 2008 Contest for "Worm Bin Sestina." The poem is forthcoming in Verseweavers, Spring 2009.
- "One Morning," a poem in Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, Urban Adventure Press, 2007
- "Persistence" and "It Didn't Help That the Room Was 90," poems in Windfall, Fall 2006
- "Lessons From Ben, Just Turned 3" and "50-50," poems in the anthology Not What We Expected: The Road From Womanhood to Motherhood, Paycock Press, Fall 2006
- Soapstone residency for Summer 2006
- First Honorable Mention, Oregon State Poetry Association's Spring 2006 Contest (50th Anniversary Category) for the poem "How Through This Slow Dream"
- Third Honorable Mention, OSPA contest in the formal verse category for "Pretend Beauty Parlor, 1963"
- "Ars Poetica," a poem in Pacific magazine, Winter 2006
- "Fireproofing the Woods" and "Nocturne," poems in Windfall, Fall 2005
CATHERINE MICHAUD (Poetry, 2009)
- "Dawn Tells Her Ex Why She Had to See the Fountain of Trevi" and "All That Remains," poems published in EXIT 13 Magazine , #15, 2008
- Second Place Winner, Writer's Digest 2006 Poetry Competition, for the poem "Dangling Modifier"
ADA MOLINOFF (Poetry, 2009)
- "Fathoms: The Woodcuts of Helen Frankenthaler," a poem, won First Place
in the category, Theme: Ekphrasis (about any visual art,) in the Oregon
State Poetry Association's fall 2008 contest. The poem will be published in
spring, 2009, in OSPA's journal, Verseweavers; and the award comes with a
cash prize. - Has been invited to read at the Oregon Jewish Museum in Portland on
Monday, November 10, 2008, at 7:30. - "Bridge," a poem in Walking Bridges Using Poetry as a Compass: Poems about Bridges Real and Imagined by 70 Poets, Urban Adventure Press, 2007
- "Poetry Collection Offers Simple Languag," a review of Dorianne Laux's book Facts About the Moon in the Salem Monthly, October 1, 2007
- "Bella, 1908," a poem in the anthology Where We Find Ourselves: Jewish Women Around the World Write About Home, 2008
DAVID MOSKOWITZ (Fiction, 2006)
- "Cheat Codes," a short story in Rhapsoidia, Issue 11, 2006
ABBY MURRAY (Poetry, 2009)
- "Late Autumn in Vancouver & Baghdad: The Preservation of Women," a poem published in So To Speak, Vol. 17, Issue 2, 2008
- "The Goldfish," a poem forthcoming in Hawai'i Pacific Review, 2008
- "If I Had A Boat," a poem forthcoming in Walt's Corner of The Long Islander newspaper, 2008
- "Surfacing" and "With Two," poems to be published in Issue 57 of Kaleidoscope: Exploring the Experience of Disability Through Literature and the Fine Arts, 2008
- "Bones," a poem forthcoming in Georgetown Review
- "The Hussy," a poem published in Cider Press Review, Spring 2008
- "To Ramida" and "Here Sits Cat," poems publishedin the Fall/Winter issue of Ibbetson Street, 2007-2008
NANCY NEWMAN (Nonfiction, 2006)
- Street Stories: 100 Years of Homelessness in Vancouver, a book with co-author Michael Barnholden and photographer Lindsay Meams, Anvil Press, 2007
ROBERT PEAKE (Poetry, 2009)
- Honorable mention, 2008 Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest
- "Road Sign on Interstate 5," a poem selected as a finalist in the 2008 Rattle Poetry Prize and forthcoming in the Winter 2008 issue of Rattle
- "The Silence Teacher," a poem published in Oregon Literary Review, Vol. 3, No. 2:
<http://orelitrev.startlogic.com/v3n2/OLR-peake.htm>. - "Recipe For The Broken," a poem forthcoming in "Walt's Corner" of The Long Islander newspaper
- "The Angel Of Sleep Visits The Inner City," a poem in Cider Press
Review, Volume 8, 2007 - "Radish," a poem selected as a finalist in the 2007 James Hearst
Poetry Prize and published in North American Review, April/May 2007 - "Telegraph Flower Stand," a poem in Askew, Volume 3, Spring 2007
JAN PRIDDY (Fiction, 2007)
- Finalist, Crab Creek Review Annual Fiction Contest, for the short story"Rain in the Desert," 2008
- Joined the faculty of Clatsop Community College, in Astoria, OR, Fall term 2008
- "Eyebrow Wings," a poem in North American Review, March/April 2006
- "A Single Fact Can Spoil a Good Argument," a short story in CALYX: A
Journal of Art and Literature by Women, 30th Anniversary Issue,
Summer 2006 - Awarded a residency at Soapstone, a literary retreat, July 2006
- "Living in Snakeland," a short story in Pacific Magazine, Winter
2005/2006
SUSAN REESE (Poetry, 2006)
- "One Man's Ceiling," "Paradise," and "Sun Sign," poems in Oregon English Journal, Spring 2008. This volume was selected by the National Council of Teachers of English for national promotion and distribution.
- Will be teaching her third DELVE seminar for Literary Arts in Spring 2009 -- "Flannery O'Connor: Wiseblood and The Complete Stories."
- Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi, initiation took place on May 22, 2008
- Traveled to Louisville, Kentucky, June 4-12, 2008 to read and score English Literature AP exams for Educational Testing Service (ETS)
- Featured on the list in the “Best of PDX” issue of Willamette Week, July 27, 2007
- Participated as a student July 7-8, 2007 at the Taos Writers’ Conference, in Taos, New Mexico
- "First Post-Mastectomy Appointment," a poem in Curextra, an online subsidiary of Cure magazine, 2006
- "The Pearl Concubine," "Rodin and Claudel," and"Returning from Olallie Lake," poems in Inkwater Ink, Inkwater Press, 2006
- Submitted poetry, was accepted, and attended a conference at Sarah Lawrence in Bronxville, New York, “Writing the Medical Experience,” at which she gave a reading of her work, July 2005
- Taught a session on “Effective Newsletter Writing,” at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire, as a part of AAUP’s Summer Institute, July 2005
BETH RUSSELL (Fiction. 2008)
- Awarded a residency at Spring Creek Project, Oregon State University, 2007
RICKIANNE (MULLER) RYCRAFT, published under the name R.A. Rycraft, (Fiction, 2007)
- The Eric Hoffer Award: Editor's Choice for her short story "Komunyakka Days." The story appears in the Best New Writing 2008 anthology published by Hopewell Publications.
- Appointed Chair of the English Department at Mt. San Jacinto College, May 2008
- Commentator for the documentary TC Boyle: The Art of the Story, made available October 2008, that is currently competing in several film festivals
- "No-Womb Woman," a short story accepted for publication in the The MacGuffin,Spring/Summer 2008
- "Covenant," a short story to appear in Calyx, Vol. 24, no. 3, Summer 200
- "Sanctuary," a short story selected for the upcoming anthology Words & Images of Belonging edited by Carol Smallwood and Cynthia Brackett-Vincent
- "You Know," short story in the top 100 storySouth's Million Writers Award Notable Stories 2006
- "You Know," a short story in Pif Magazine, Summer 2006
- "Shh," a short story in the online magazine VerbSap, Fall 2006
MARY SALISBURY (Fiction, 2010)
- Awarded a 2008 Oregon Literary Fellowship from Literary Arts
FELICITY SHOULDERS (Fiction, 2008)
- "Ashes," a short story to be published in Calyx, Summer 2009
- "Burgerdroid," a short story in Asimov's Science Fiction, 2008
KATEY SCHULTZ (Nonfiction, 2008)
- "Self Portrait," a poem to be published in Perigee, Oct.-Jan. 2007
- "On the Edge of Southern Appalachian Living," a personal narrative in Cadillac Cicatrix, Winter 2007-08
- "Mountains of Tea," a personal narrative in Now & Then, Winter 2008
- Second Place, Nonfiction category of the 2007 Marylhurst Writing
Contest, for "Islandia" which will also be published in the M Review, June 2007 - Third Place Winner, Student Category, Oregon Quarterly 2007 Northwest Perspectives Essay Contest, for "Meditation on Activism"
- "The Longest Undeclared War in History," an essay in Contemporary Impressions, March 2007
- "To Sculpt a Dream," an essay in Ceramics Art and Perception, Winter 2007
- "On Inner Peace and Patience," an essay in Now & Then, January 2007
- "Booking It," an essay in Our State Magazine, December 2006
- "From the Inside Out," an essay in Ceramics Art and Perception, Summer 2006
JOSHUA REED STUART (Poetry, 2006):
- Has launched an experimental writing Web journal and is seeking submissions: Acetylene Fever
- "Watching a Young Mother Walk With Her Infant Through a Cemetary on the Day Before My Funeral," a poem to be featured at the Festival de Arte Digital in Brazil, September 2007
- "Another Sanctuary" and "Sleeping It Off," poems in In Between Hangovers, Winter 2006-2007
- "Driving With My Father," a poem in PixArtisan Online Magazine, October 2006
- Is traveling in Antarctica where he will be teaching a writing workshop
- "A Few Ideas" and "Why Winter Is No Longer Scary," poems in the Summer Solstice Issue of Ice-Floe, Vol VII, No 1, 2006
- "Directions for Surviving," a poem in Poetry International, Vol 11, 2006
- "I Also Am Growing Old," a poem in New Delta Review, Summer 2006
- Second Place, Alaska Statewide Poetry Contest 2006, Judged by John Haines
- "Watching a Young Mother Walk With Her Infant Through a Cemetery on the Day Before My Funeral," Born, Summer 2006
- "Riding the Train," a poem in The Iowa Review, Spring 2005
- Recipient of the Virginia Hinkley Poetry Award at College of the Redwoods Del Norte, 2004
- "Farmer's Blood” and "Sharing the Son," poems in The White Pelican Review, 2003
THEA SWANSON (Fiction, 2007)
- Has accepted a position teaching English at West Sound Academy beginning in September 2007
- "Stuck in Crafts," a short story in Image, 2008
- "What's in This for Dave," a short story in Our Stories, Spring 2007
- "Cleveland and It Hurts," a short story in Crab Creek Review, Summer/Fall 2007
- "Federal Grant" and "Language of Vermin," poems in Panamowa, May 2007
- Accepted an adjunct faculty position teaching English at Olympic College in Washington, September 2006
BELINDA VICARS (Fiction, 2007)
- "Riding the Synapse Train into Madness," creative non-fiction, forthcoming in Talking River, Lewis-Clark State College's literary magazine
- "Probabilities of Delight," short story, forthcoming in Kudzu Magazine, Fall 2008
- "What She Kept," a short story in Dogwood, May 2007
JOHN WALKER (Fiction, 2006)
- "The Atlas Show," a short story, will appear in the online journal Slow Trains, Spring 2008
- "Ain't It Pretty," a short story in StringTown magazine, 2007
GEORGE WALLACE (Poetry, 2009)
- Summer of Love Summer of Love, a book of poetry published by Shivastan Press, 2008
- The North Sea Poetry Scene is hosting a tribute to George Wallace, Saturday, October 25th, 2008, 6 pm -10p.m., West Lake Inn, 322 Montauk Highway, Patchogue, New York 11772, 631-475-1300
- Was recently named to the New York State Council on the Arts Literature Panel, 2008
- Was asked to serve as a correspondent by PEN at the annual World Voices Festival, 2008
- "Sky Is," a CD recorded in Cornwall England, released on CDBABY.COM
- Wrestling Godzilla, a chapbook, selected for publication, Green Panda
Press, Cleveland, OH - Summer of Love Summer of Love, a chapbook, selected for publication,
Shivastan Press, Woodstock NY - Performed with Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Grant Hart (Husker Du) in
Festival Ecstatique, Amherst MA - Appeared at Woody Guthrie Festival, Okemah, OK; Kenneth Rexroth Festival,
Cleveland, OH; Beat Museum, San Francisco, CA; Howlfest, NYC; Women's Arts
International Festival, Kendal, UK - Named "Next Generation" Beat writer by Lowell Celebrates Kerouac Inc
- "Politicking Dulls Poetics," an article in Sunday New York Newsday, June 2007
- "Double Yellow Lines," a poem in The War Papers, Big Bridge, 2007
LINDA WEIFORD
- "On-air Stripper," a personal essay, recently placed third in the 2008 National Flash Prose Competition sponsored by Writer Advice. It will appear in its July e-zine issue at writeradvice.com <http://writeradvice.com> . Her nonfiction piece grew from an assignment on micro-essays given by Valerie Miner and Craig Lesley during the summer 2007 term.
JENNIFER WHETHAM (Poetry, 2009)
- "The Tulips," "The Possum," and "Jesus Loved the Prostitutes," poems in the online journal The Smoking Poet, 2007
ROBIN WILLIAMS (Poetry, 2007)
- "Burying the Dead" and "Wearing Anxiety," poems in the anthology Open Windows: An Anthology of Poetry, Essays & Fiction, Ghost Road Press 2005, finalist for Colorado Book Award
KOON WOON (Poetry, 2009)
- "Fool's Gold," a poem forthcoming in Echoes, 2008
- "A Season in Hell" and "The Empty Mirror," poems posted on "Poetry Soul to Soul," a Web site of international poets hosted by Joneve McCormick from NY, 2008
- "Around Us," "It is Still Dark Outside," and "It was the Best of Years; It was the Worst of Years," poems to be published in Free Verse, 2008
- Invited to read his poetry in Seattle in a mixed-media event sponsored by Poets and Writers, Inc. and Apostrophe, on February 23, 2008, 8:00 p.m., 1412 18th Avenue (at Union Street)
JAMES ZERNDT (Poetry, 2009)
- "The X-Ray," a short story published in ARS Medica: A Journal of Medicine, The Arts, and Humanities, 2008
- "Two Figures of Speech Walk into a Bar" and "First Poetry Reading," poems in Currents Magazine, Summer 2008
- "Comet's Snowball," a short story published in Colere: A Journal of Cultural Exploration, 2008
- "This Jerkwater Life," a short story that was runner-up in Playboy's 2008 College Fiction Contest
- "How to Raise an American Artist," a poem in Slipstream #28, forthcoming in the Spring/Summer of 2008
- "How to Write Poetry," a satirical essay in the online magazine Yankee Pot Roast, August 21, 2007
- "Apology," a poem in the Sunday edition of The Oregonian, July 15, 2007