Community News & Updates April 2014

ALUMNI NEWS Katie Bickham's (Poetry, S'13) first book of poems, The Belle Mar, won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Competition and will be coming out in April 2015 through Pleiades and LSU Press. The prize also includes $2000. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) was writing on trains before it was cool and had two related …

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Community News & Updates March 2014

ALUMNI The young adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been chosen as one of the books for the annual "Illinois Reads" program. Under the auspices of the Illinois Reading Council, this project was created to promote reading for all Illinois citizens, from birth to adult. Thirty-six titles were chosen (Being …

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Community News & Updates February 2014

ALUMNI Libby Cudmore (Popular Fiction, S'10) is thrilled to announce that she has accepted an offer of reprsentation from Jim McCarthy of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Anthony D'Aries (Creative Nonfiction, W'09) was recently interviewed by Mason's Road, Fairfield MFA's literary journal. He was also invited to present at Embry-Riddle University's President's Speaker Series on …

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Community News & Updates January 2014

ALUMNI The Young Adult novel Being Henry David by Cal Armistead (Fiction, W'07) has been listed among the "Best Young Adult Novels of 2013" by Kirkus Reviews, Mashable, and Buzzfeed. Michael Beeman (Fiction, S'09) was thrilled to receive the Sewanee Review's 2013 Andrew Nelston Lytle Fiction Prize for his story "The Sleeping Santas" (written in his …

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