Community News & Updates January 2016

ALUMS Elisabeth Tova Bailey (Creative Nonfiction, S'15) received a 2016 National Endowment of the Arts fellowship. There were 1,763 submissions this year and 37 fellowships awarded. NEA press release can be viewed here. Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) is delighted to share that Catwalk, the third book in her Animals in Focus Mystery series from Midnight Ink, …

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Community News & Updates June 2015

ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer's (Popular Fiction, S'13) drabble about an unfortunate house cat entitled "What Dolls Eat" will appear in The Were-Traveler in late May/early June. She is most pleased the editor called it "damn creepy" in her acceptance letter. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S'11) published a short story "A Song For You" on Motherboard themed from the Donny Hathaway …

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Community News & Updates March 2015

ALUMNI Karen Bovenmyer (Popular Fiction, S'13) is pleased to announce her story "The Scarlet Cloak" will be reprinted in Life After Ashes, an anthology published by Alliteration Ink to benefit a military family who lost everything in a fire. Jennifer Marie Brissett (Popular Fiction, S '11) will be on panel at the Astro Blackness 2 Conference, Loyola Marymount University, …

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Community News & Updates January 2015

Happy New Year! ALUMNI Sheila Boneham (Creative Nonfiction/Cross Genre, S'13) had a lovely December. Her essay "A Question of Corvids," winner of the 2014 Prime Number Magazine Creative Nonfiction Award, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and for the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthology. Her novel The Money Bird (Midnight Ink, 2013) is a finalist …

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Community News & Updates November 2014

ALUMNI Erin Lyn Bodin (Fiction S'14) published the title essay of her thesis, "Art of Being Light," in Kindred Magazine's Fall 2014 Issue: Gather. Erin is also thrilled to announce that she's been granted a 2015 A Room of Her Own Foundation Fellowship and will attend the Waves Discussion Series/2015 Retreat: Writing Against the Current. …

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Community News & Updates September 2014

ALUMNI Patricia Barletta (Popular Fiction, W'12) has just signed a contract with Lachesis Publishing for her Stonecoast thesis, Moon Dark, a paranormal historical romance. The novel will be released in 2015. Eric M. Bosarge (Popular Fiction, W'12) is pleased to announce his short story Adytum appeared in volume two of The Darkness Internal published by Voluted Tales. Karen Bovenmyer (Popular …

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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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