NEWS! 5/1/2008
Amanda Coplin ('06) and Charlie Conley ('06) received 2008-2009 fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.
Amanda Fields ('05) received writing grants from the American University in Cairo and the Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation. She was accepted to the VCCA summer residency program at Moulin a Nef in Auvillar, France.
Alum Michael Opperman was a finalist for Margie Review's Editor's Prize for best poem. "Fireman's Funeral" and "My First Lover" will be published in the Autumn 2008 issue.
Alum Eric Dregni has accepted an assistant professor, tenure-track position at Concordia University in Saint Paul. His latest book, In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream, will be published in fall 2008 by the University of Minnesota Press.
MFA Ryo Yamaguchi has poems forthcoming in 42opus, Spout and Word for/Word.
AWARDS
Charles Baxter received a 2008 Minnesota Book Award in General Nonfiction for The Art of Subtext (Graywolf Press)... Patricia Hampl received a 2008 Minnesota Book Award in Nonfiction for her memoir The Florist's Daughter (Harcourt)....The 2008 Gesell Award in Fiction was awarded to Ethan Rutherford, with an honorable mention to Laura Owen. The judge was Jim Shepard...The 2008 Gesell Award in Poetry was awarded to Luke Pingel, with an honorable mention to Jim Novak. The judge was Fenton Johnson...The 2008 Gesell Award in Nonfiction was awarded to Wilson Peden and Katie Leo-Keast, with an honorbale mention to Holly Vanderhaar...2008 Marcella DeBourg recipients are Swati Avasthi and Emily Bright....2008 Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize winners are Nate Slawson and Patrick Nylen. The judge was Todd Boss...Ethan Rutherford and Ann Linde received 2008 Gesell Summer Residencies at the Anderson Center in Red Wing, Minnesota...MFA Alum Yuko Taniguchis's novel, The Ocean in the Closet, was named a Notable Book for the 2008 Kiriyama Prize...
FALL 2008 EDELSTEIN-KELLER VISITING WRITERS:
Ethan Canin, Thomas Lynch, Andrea Elliott, Nin Andrews, Peter Johnson. Reading dates and venues TBA.
