English Department News
Graduate Students in Creative Writing land prestigious publications
This fall Jesse Graves learned that three of his poems--"Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine," "River Gods," and "Firing Order"-—plus a critical essay, “"Lattice Work: Formal Tendencies in the Poetry of Robert Morgan and Ron Rash State of Southern Poetry,” have been accepted for a special issue of Southern Quarterly on “The State of Southern Poetry.”
Brad Tice, graduate student in Creative Writing and Editor of the first issue of Grist, just learned that Salman Rushdie and Heidi Pitlor have selected his short story, “Missionaries,” to appear in the 2008 volume of The Best American Short Stories, published by Houghton-Mifflin. The story appeared originally in the 2007 Atlantic Monthly fiction issue, which also included stories by Tobias Wolff and John Updike.
Another graduate student in Creative Writing, Otis Haschemeyer, also just received the news that his story, “The Fantôme of Fatma,” has been selected by Mary Gaitskill to be included the upcoming volume of Best New American Voices, an annual short story collection published by Harvest. Publishers Weekly writes that this annual publishes “the cream of the nation’s writing workshops.”
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