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Creative Writing NewsFall 2009 [Faculty] David Bottoms’ new book of poems, Working the Heavy Bag, is scheduled to appear next year from Copper Canyon Press. Articulating the Spirit: A Little Book of Poetry Talk, a small book of essays and interviews, will be published next spring by Press 53. His essay “The Poetry of Bridges: Growing Up Small-town, Gazing toward Atlanta” will be published next year in American Cities, published by the U.S. Department of State (the essay was commissioned by Department of State). He has published poems recently in Poetry, The Southern Review, The Gettysburg Review, Agni Review, and New South. His poem “Scholar and Red-Shouldered Hawk” was recently delivered at the investiture ceremony of President Mark Becker, GSU (the poem was commissioned by the President’s Office), and Bottoms’ poem “My Father’s Left Hand” was reprinted in American Life in Poetry, edited by Ted Kooser. His poems “My Father Adjusts His Hearing Aids,” “A Chat with My Father,” and “Montana Wedding Day” were featured online recently in Poetry Daily, and his poem “Holidays and Sundays” was featured online recently in Verse Daily. His poem “An Owl” was recently reprinted in the anthology The Poet’s Guide to Birds, edited by Ted Kooser and Judith Kitchen, from Anghinga Press; “An Owl” was also recently reprinted in the anthology Bright Wings, edited by Billy Collins, from Columbia University Press. His poems “A Daughter’s Fever” and “In a U-Haul North of Damascus” were recently reprinted in the anthology After Shocks, edited by Tom Lombardo, from Sante Lucia Books, and his poem “Sign for My Father Who Stressed the Bunt” is reprinted with study questions in Kaplan’s AP English Literature and Composition 2008. Pocket Charms Against Oblivion: Essays on the Work of David Bottoms, edited by William Walsh, is scheduled to appear next fall from McFarland. The book includes essays by Dave Smith, Laurence Lieberman, Fred Chappell, Ernest Suarez, David Baker, and others, as well as three interviews with Bottoms. Josh Russell's novel My Bright Midnight is forthcoming in 2010 from Louisiana State University Press as part of their Yellow Shoe Fiction series. John Holman's story "Wave" has been anthologized in Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image. Josh Russell's story "The Great War" is part of the Indiana University Press anthology Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fictions from the Flyover. [Students] The Long Division, the second novel by Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction), has been published by St. Martin's and has received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal. (Visit http://www.dereknikitas.com/ for more information.) Dionne Irving (PhD/Ficton) was a finalist for the Crab Orchard Review Jack Dyer Fiction Prize. Her story, "Canals," will appear in the Review's Winter/Spring 2010 issue. Karen Gentry's (MFA/Fiction) story "Denial in Miniature" is the winner of PANK's 1,001 Awesome Words Contest and will appear in PANK 4. A second story, "It's Been Real," was a finalist for the contest, and appears in the online issue. Jessica Hand (MFA/Poetry) was a finalist for the River Styx 2009 International Poetry Contest. Amanda Gable's (MFA/Fiction) novel, The Confederate General Rides North, has been published by Scribner, and has been reviewed in the New York Times and Creative Loafing. "Shah Mata," a story by Liam Connolly (BA/English), appears in Sacramento Poetry, Art and Music (SPAM). “Watching an Old Springsteen Concert on T.V.," a poem by Sara Hughes (PhD/Poetry), has been anthologized in Love Poems and Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen (Pudding House, 2009). Fiction and poetry by Christine Swint (MFA/Poetry) appears in Scapegoat Review and riverbabble. Kevin Adler's (PhD/Fiction) story "The Simpler Times" has been published in The Brooklyn Review, Issue 26. Karen Gentry's (MFA/Fiction) story "Treasure Island" appears in Issue 10 of NOÖ. [Alumni] Prose. Poems. A Novel., by Jamie Iredell (PhD/Fiction, 2009), is fortcoming from Orange Alert Press in October 2009. "Barrel Roll," a poem by Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry, 2009), appears in the Yale Review (Vol. 97, No. 3). Summer 2009 [Faculty] Josh Russell's novel A True History of the Captivation, Transport to Strange Lands, & Deliverance of Hannah Guttentag is forthcoming from Dzanc Books. [Students] This Pagan Heaven, a chapbook by Robin Kemp (PhD/Poetry), has been published by Pecan Grove Press. "The Gifts," a story by Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction), has earned a 2009 Gulf Coast Fiction Prize Honorable Mention. Cheryl Stiles’s (PhD/Poetry) “No Anointing,” winner of the 2009 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry, is the lead poem in the premier issue of Southern Women’s Review. SWR was inspired by the biennial Southern Women Writers Conference at Berry College. Spring 2009 [Faculty] John Holman has published a short story in The Oxford American's special issue "Race: The Past, Present, and Future.” [Students] Valeria’s Last Stand, a novel by Marc Fitten (PhD/Fiction), has been released by Bloomsbury in the US, and in German translation by DTV. UK, French, Italian, Spanish, and Hebrew editions are forthcoming. Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction) is the Winner of the 2009 Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry) is featured as the Discovered Voices Prize winner in the Spring 2009 issue of Iron Horse Literary Review for his poems "Anger," "Delirium Tremens," and "After Pizarro." Another poem—"Jitterbug, 1953"—is in Issue #79 of River Styx. Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) will be a Fellow at the Hambidge Center this summer. His story "For the Love of Mary Hooks" appears in the May 2009 issue of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and two more stories are included in the Main Street Rag anthologies XX Eccentricities and Dots on a Map. Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction) has published a story, "Poetry," in Carve Magazine. She received an honorable mention in the 2009 University of New Orleans Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Writing Contest. Peter Fontaine (PhD/Fiction) has published a review of the story collection If the Heart is Lean in The Montserrat Review. This Pagan Heaven, a chapbook by Robin Kemp (PhD/Poetry), is forthcoming in May from Pecan Grove Press. Her poem "New Breast" was recently read at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction) has won the 2009 University of New Orleans Study Abroad Programs in Arts and Writing Writing Contest. James May (PhD/Poetry) has won the 2009 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Nonfiction. Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction) has won the 2009 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Fiction. Cheryl Stiles (PhD/Poetry) has won the 2009 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry. Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction) has won the American Short Fiction Short Story Contest. Her story was selected by Sam Lipsyte, and will appear in May 2009 in American Short Fiction. Cheryl Stiles' (PhD/Poetry) poem "Watercress Sings" appears in the new issue of GARGOYLE (#54). James Iredell (PhD/Fiction) has published a fiction chapbook, Atlanta, with Paper Hero Press as part of their Achilles Chapbook Series. He has two more chapbooks forthcoming: When I Moved to Nevada (The Greying Ghost Press) and Before I Moved to Nevada (Publishing Genius Press). The film option for Derek Nikitas' (PhD/Fiction) novel Pyres has been acquired by the independent production company Vox3. Derek's new novel, The Long Division is forthcoming from St. Martin's in November. Hally Joseph (BA/English), Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction), Liane LeMaster (MFA/Fiction), Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction), Candace Nadon (PhD/Fiction), Kevin Adler (PhD/Fiction), James May (PhD/Poetry), Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry), Sara Hughes (PhD/Poetry), and Cheryl Stiles (PhD/Poetry) are all finalists for the 2009 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prizes in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. [Alumni] This spring, Lydia Williams's (PhD/Fiction, 2008) fiction has appeared in The Pedestal, Neon, and The Apple Valley Review. Her story in A Cappella Zoo, "Oven of Dreams," was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Michael Ogletree's (BA/Poetry, 2008) chapbook, This Is Not a Venn Diagram, has been published by Taiga Press as the initial volume in their Tundra Chapbook Series. His poems have also appeared in American Poetry Journal, BlazeVOX, Fourteen Hills, Poetry Midwest, and various other places. He is the poetry editor for SUB-LIT. Laura Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction, 2006) has won the 2009 Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. Her story, "Medicine" appears in the 7 January issue of Creative Loafing. Fall 2008 [Faculty] David Bottoms has been elected into the "Georgia Writers Hall of Fame." The University of Georgia Libraries founded the Hall of Fame in 2000 to recognize Georgia's most influential writers, past and present. The Hall of Fame currently includes thirty-one writers, among them: Flannery O'Connor, Carson McCullers, James Dickey, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker, Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, Sidney Lanier, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet, Margaret Mitchell, Martin Luther King, Lillian Smith, Jimmy Carter, and Joel Chandler Harris. The new inductees will be celebrated in ceremonies and a literary panel at the University of Georgia on March 23 and 24, 2009. All inductees are celebrated on the Hall of Fame's website. Josh Russell's novel manuscript My Bright Midnight is a finalist for the 2008 William Faulkner-William Wisdom Prize awarded by the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society. [Students] Stories by Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) appear in the most recent issues of Thuglit and Smokelong Quarterly and the anthology Stars Fell. In October he won the Atlanta Magazine Short Fiction Contest, and his story "You Can Have it All" will appear in the December issue. Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction) has published short-short stories in the most recent issues of Thuglit, New South, Pulp Pusher, and Plots With Guns. (These stories by Derek bring the total number of published stories to come from Josh Russell's Summer 2007 short-short workshop to ten, including the winner of the 2008 World's Best Short Short Story Contest.) K.B. Kincer's (MFA/Poetry) "The Other Mothers" appears in the most recent issue of The Healing Muse: A Journal of Literary and Visual Arts published by SUNY Upstate Medical University. Judith Carson (PhD/Poetry) has published the poem "Graymalkin" in the Fall 2008 edition of The LBJ: Avian Life, Literary Arts. Amanda Gable's (MFA/Fiction) first novel, The Confederate General Rides North, will be published in the summer of 2009 by Scribner. "The Lucky One," a story by Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction), appears in New Orleans Reivew, Volume 34, Number 1. Jessica Hand (MFA/Poetry) is the winner of the 2008 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry and a finalist in the River Styx 2008 International Poetry Contest (judged by Kim Addonizio). She has recently published poems in The Minnesota Review ("Blind Gods, Human Braille"), ToasterMag ("Womb in Three Parts" and "Artic"), Limp Wrist ("Ode to My Pentecostal Right Arm"), and in the anthology Java Monkey Speaks 2 ("Armies of Compassion"). Liane LeMaster's (MFA/Fiction) story "Fever" was published in Volume 1, Issue 4 of Sub-Lit. [Alumni] Garrison Keillor has selected one of Liz Robbins' (PhD/Poetry, 2004) poems, "Studio," (from her book Hope, As the World is a Scorpion Fish) to read for The Writer's Almanac on December 2nd. Laura Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction, 2006) has published "Slow Freeze," a creative nonfiction piece, in Post Road (Issue No. 14) Work by Corey Green (MFA/Poetry, 2008) appears in the most recent Spoon River Poetry Review, and in the Fall/Winter 2008 issue of Poet Lore. Summer 2008 [Faculty] Josh Russell's story "Moscow" appears in Vol. 57, No. 1 of Epoch. [Students] "Caladiums," a poem by Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry), appears in the newest issue of Salamander. Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry) has won the Iron Horse Literary Review Discovered Voices Prize for his poems "Anger," "After Pizarro," and "Delirium Tremens." James Thomas Miller (PhD/Poetry) and Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry) have been named 2008 Tennessee Williams Poetry Scholars at the Sewanee Writers' Conference. [Alumni] Man Martin (PhD/Fiction, 2007) has won the 2008 Georgia Author of the Year Award for First Novel for his book Days of the Endless Corvette. Spring 2008 [Faculty] Sheri Joseph's novel Stray is a finalist for both the 2008 Lambda Award and the 2008 Townsend Prize. This summer Sheri will again be a fellow at Yaddo. [Students] Marc Fitten (PhD/Fiction) has sold his novel Valeria's Last Stand to Bloomsbury USA (where it is scheduled to be the lead title of their Spring 2009 list), Bloosmbury UK, and German publisher DTV. In 2009 he will tour the US, UK, Germany, and France in support of the novel. Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction) has won the 2008 World's Best Short Short Story Contest. Robert Olen Butler was the judge. "A Recipe for Ambrosia" will appear early in 2009 in the Southeast Review. Dionne Irving (PhD/Fiction) was a finalist for the Glimmer Train Family Matters contest and won third place in the College Language Association Creative Writing Contest. Calaya Reid (PhD/Fiction) has signed a second two-book contract with Kensington Books. The untitled books (her third and fourth novels) are slated for release in 2009 and 2010. Her second book, His First Wife, is due out in October 2008. "The Fire Extinguisher Grenades," a story by Jody Brooks (MFA/Fiction), appears in the newest issue of Hot Metal Bridge. Karen Gentry (MFA/Fiction) has published an article on Reynolds Price in The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature (University of North Carolina Press, 2008). "The Lifespan of a Sparrow," a poem by Michele Rozga (PhD/Poetry), appears in the most recent issue of the Southeast Review. (The poem won the 2007 Southeast Review Poetry Contest). Killer Year: Stories to Die For, an anthology published by St. Martin's, includes a story by Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction). That story—"Runaway"—was singled out for praise by Kirkus Reviews. "Walking on the Moon," a story by Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction), appears in the Spring 2008 issue of Glimmer Train. Derek Nikitas' (PhD/Fiction) novel Pyres has been nominated for a 2008 Edgar Award in the category Best First Novel By An American Author. Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) has a story in the Fall 2007 issue of The Dos Passos Review—"Under the Sea." "Informing my mother of her death," a poem by Corey Green (MFA/Poetry) appears in the Summer/Fall 2007 issue of The Spoon River Poetry Review. Two stories by Jody Brooks (MFA/Fiction) appear in issue three of SUB-LIT. Robin Kemp's (PhD/Poetry) poem "New Breast" appears in the anthology Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv (Red Hen Press). (The poem first appeared in Texas Review.) Sam Miller (MA/Fiction) has won second place in the 2008 Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. He will read at the Fiction Contest Party to be held on 10 January at Eyedrum. "Moving," a story by Peter Fontaine (PhD/Fiction), has been published in issue three of SUB-LIT. [Alumni] "Crow Beach," a story by Dan Marshall (MFA/Fiction, 2004), appears in the newest issue of Hot Metal Bridge. Laurah Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction, 2006) has won the 2008 Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. Her story will appear in Creative Loafing on 9 January, and she will read at the Fiction Contest Party to be held on 10 January at Eyedrum. Fall 2007 [Faculty] John Holman's story "Luau" appears in the 2007 New Fiction Issue of the Mississippi Review (Vol. 35, No. 3). Josh Russell's story "An Airplane Control" is in Vol. 34, No. 1 of the Black Warrior Review. [Students] "By a Lake in Sweetwater, Texas," a poem by Judith Carson (MFA/Poetry), appears in Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review (Issue # 29, Fall/Winter 2007). Cheryl Stiles' (PhD/Poetry) essay "Hearing Merwin Read 'The Last One'" appears in the fall 2007 issue of Redactions, her poems "Formula" and "Message" appear in the 2007 issue of The Healing Muse, and "Different Planes of Sensuous Form," an essay and annotated bibliography about Elizabeth Barrett Browning, appears in the fall 2007 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review, a journal published by the University of Toronto Press. "The Present," a poem by Austin Segrest (MFA/Poetry), appears in Vol. 6, No. 2 of Blackbird. Derek Nikitas' (PhD/Fiction) novel Pyres is out from St. Martin's. He has recently read from the book at UNC-Wilmington and Wordsmith Books, and on November 15th he will read as part of the Georgia State University Visiting Writers series. Twice this October stories by Lydia Williams (PhD/Fiction) have appeared as Firebox Fiction Weekly Features in Night Train: "Waking Up in Wakefield" on the 7th, and "Bad Secretary" on the 21st. Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) has published a story in the newest issue of The Pedestal.
Summer 2007 [Faculty] "Vacation," a story by John Holman, appears in the New Fiction Issue of the MississippiReview.com (Vol. 13, No. 3, Summer 2007). [Students] Karen Gentry's (MFA/Fiction) story "The Castle Lovely" appears in the Summer 2007 issue of New Delta Review. Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) has published the poem "A Microcosm of the Human Condition" in the New England Review (Vol. 28, No. 2, 2007). Chris Bundy's (PhD/Fiction) "Diary of the Downsized: A Chronicle" appears in the July/August issue of The Rambler. Calaya Reid (PhD/Fiction), writing as Grace Octavia, has received a glowing review in ESSENCE Magazine for her just-published novel Take Her Man: "A funny and sexy look into the world of Black dating by Octavia that will have you busting out the notepad to jot down tips on settling the score and finding true love." Take Her Man has also been given Four Stars by Romantic Times Magazine, and selected for Overbooked's 2007 Hot List. A second Grace Octavia novel is forthcoming from Kensington Books in May 2008. Michele Rozga (PhD/Poetry) has won the 2007 Southeast Review Poetry Contest, judged by Mark Doty. Her poem "The Lifespan of a Sparrow" will appear in the Spring/Summer 2007 issue.
[Alumni] Laurah Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction, 2006) has published stories in the most recent issues of Night Train and Fringe. Spring 2007 [Faculty] Sheri Joseph has been awarded a month-long summer residency at the Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, which is housed in a castle in Scotland. Sheri Joseph's novel Stray has won the first annual Grub Street Book Prize in fiction. The prize is awarded to a writer outside New England publishing his or her second, third, fourth (or beyond) book. The award includes an honorarium and a Friday night reading/book party at Grub Street’s event space in downtown Boston. Stray has been praised as a "compelling tale of reconciliation and redemption" (Booklist) and "a telling book that reveals how complex the construction of appearance and identity can be in contemporary society" (Lexington Herald-Leader). Sheri Joseph will read from Stray on April 5th as part of the 2006-2007 Georgia State Visiting Writers program. [Students] Derek Nikitas (PhD/Fiction) has received the Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in fiction for the 2007 session of The Sewanee Writers' Conference. Amber Brooks (MFA/Fiction) has won third place in The Playboy College Fiction Contest for her story "Love Is Like a Rock." Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) has won the 2007 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Fiction. Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) has published a poem, "Twilight at the Hummingbird Feeder," in the new issue of BLOOM. Brett Bender (MFA/Fiction) won the 2007 Creative Loafing Fiction Contest. His winning story appeared in the 3 January issue of Creative Loafing, and he was part of a Creative Loafing celebration at Eyedrum that evening. Fall 2006 [Faculty] "Second Fire," a story by John Holman, appears in the Fall 2006 volume of Third Coast. [Students] Man Martin (PhD/Fiction) has sold his first novel, Days of the Endless Corvette, to Carroll & Graf. The book, "a humorous tall-tale about true love and car repair set in Deepstep, Georgia in the '70's," will be released in July of 2007. Visit manmartin.net for more information. Judith Carson (MFA/Poetry) has won first place in poetry in the Porter Fleming Literary Competition. She has also had two poems selected as finalists in the recent Writer's Digest poetry contest. "The Passion," a poem by Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry), appears in the Summer 2006 issue of The Literary Review. Cheryl Stiles (PhD/Poetry) has published two poems: "Safety is My G al" in the fall issue of Atlanta Review, and "Frog," in the new issue of Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. Katie Fesuk (PhD/Poetry) has a poem, "Guidelines for Submission," in the 2006 issue of Water-Stone Review. Austin Segrest's (MFA/Poetry) poem, "Stemware," appears in the fall issue of Bitter Oleander. Summer 2006 [Students] Sam Miller (MA/Fiction) has stories in McSweeney's and AGNI. (Click HERE to read the latter online.) "Eulogy for a Snake Handler Killed by a Canebrake," a poem by Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry), which originally appeared in the Gettysburg Review, has been reprinted in Poetry Southeast. (Click HERE to read it.) Spring 2006 [Faculty] Sheri Joseph has signed a two-book deal with MacAdam/Cage, one of America's premier literary publishers. Her novel Stray—the first of the two books—will appear in February of 2007. She has also been awarded a summer fellowship to Yaddo, where she will begin work on the second book. "The Naked Eye," a short story by John Holman, appears in the Winter 2006 issue of the Oxford American. [Students] Three poems by Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) appear in the Spring 2006 issue of BOMB. Kathy Kincer (MFA/Poetry) has won the 2006 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Poetry. Michael Cooper (MFA/Fiction) has won the 2006 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prize in Fiction. Calaya Reid (PhD/Fiction), writing under her commercial fiction pseudonym Grace Octavia, has signed a two-novel contract with Kensington Books. Six GSU graduate students are finalists for 2006 Agnes Scott College Writers' Festival Competition Prizes. For personal essay, Cheryl Stiles (PhD/Poetry), for poetry Kathy Kincer (MFA/Poetry) and Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry), and for fiction, Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction), Michael Cooper (MFA/Fiction), and Laurah Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction). Chris Bundy's (PhD/Fiction) short story "Morning Prayers" appears in the new anthology Where Love is Found: 24 Tales of Connection. The story was singled out for praise in a February 12 Washington Post review of the collection. Laurah Norton Raines (MFA/Fiction) has been named English Department Instructor of the Year for 2005. She has also received an institutional excellence award from the GSU College of Arts & Sciences. Two stories by Amber Brooks (MFA/Fiction) have been published in Staccato Magazine. Fall 2005 [Faculty] Josh Russell has been awarded a 2006 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. His work appears in the "New Fiction from the American South" special issue of Epoch (Vol 54, No 3, 2005 Series), and in the inaugural issue of Red Mountain Review (Vol 1, Fall 2005). "Sunday," a short story by John Holman, appears in the most recent Tampa Review (Number 29). Beth Gylys has poems in the current issues of Willow Springs and Terminus, and six more in the anthology Under the Rock Umbrella: Modern American Poets from 1951-1976. [Students] Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) read at Housing Works Used Books Café in New York City on October 24. The reading was part of the package of awards she recived as the winner of the 2005 Poets & Writers Exchange Contest for Poetry. Liane Lemaster (MFA/Fiction) has won 1st Place in the Porter Fleming Literary Competition and will read from "Dinosaurs in Limbo," her winning story, at the Arts in the Heart of Augusta Festival on September 18. GSU Review and the Graduate English Association (GEA) cohosted a graduate student reading on September 9 at the Defoor Centre in northwest Atlanta. A collection taken at the reading for the victims of Hurricane Katrina totaled over $150, and was donated to the American Red Cross. Summer 2005 [Faculty] Sheri Joseph will be a fellow this summer at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire. [Students] Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. recently awarded their Achiever's Scholarship to Calaya Reid (PhD/Fiction) for her fiction writing. Founded in 1913 by African American women, Delta Sigma Theta is an international public service sorority with over 200,000 members and 900 chapters worldwide. Notable Delta authors include Nikki Giovanni, Gloria Naylor (The Women of Brewster Place), Pearl Cleage (What Looks Like Crazy), and Paula Giddings. Others include Aretha Franklin, Lena Horne, Judith Jamison, Leotyne Price, Cicely Tyson, and Altanta's own, Mayor Shirley Franklin. Spring 2005 [Faculty] John Holman and Beth Gylys have been awarded research leave for the Spring 2005 semester in order to work on creative projects. In April, John Holman will be a fellow at the Yaddo artists' community in Saratoga Springs, NY. Sheri Joseph and Beth Gylys have joined Five Points as Associate Editors. [Students] Delisa Mulkey (PhD/Poetry) has won the 2005 Writers Exchange Contest for Poetry sponsored by Poets & Writers and chosen by Patricia Smith. Delisa wins:
Click HERE to see the official announcement. Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) was chosen as "First Runner-up" in the 2005 Writers Exchange Contest for Fiction. Chris Bundy (PhD/Fiction) has won the Agnes Scott College Writer's Festival Competition Fiction Prize for his story "Early One Morning the Sun was Shining." GSU creative writing students, faculty, and alumni: please send news of prizes, publications, and other accomplishments to Josh Russell (josh@gsu.edu) so that news can be added to this page.
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