2013 AWP Conference & Bookfair, Boston: Registration Waivers

The MFA Program offers a limited number of free registrations for current students and faculty for 2013 AWP Conference & Bookfair in Boston. The conference takes place March 3–9 at the Hynes Convention Center & Sheraton Boston Hotel. Free registration slots are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

To request a registration-waived slot, email Program Associate Katy Yocom at kyocom@spalding.edu no later than October 31. Students and faculty receiving these slots are automatically registered for the conference but must arrange and pay for their own housing and transportation.

Once the free spots are filled, students and faculty register for the conference themselves but may request reimbursement from the MFA Office at the early-bird price of $40 for students or $140 for faculty. To qualify for the early-bird price, students and faculty must register by October 31; registration at the full price is open until January 18, 2013. To request reimbursement, students and faculty email their registration receipt to Administrative Director Karen Mann at kmann@spalding.edu.

Registration for the conference does not include hotel reservations. The Sheraton Boston is now accepting reservations for conference attendees. Rooms are expected to sell out quickly, so those planning to attend are encouraged to book their rooms promptly. Information about the 2013 conference and hotel can be found at https://www.awpwriter.org/awp_conference/overview.

As always, the MFA Program and The Louisville Review sponsor a table at the bookfair, and students and alumni are invited to represent the program by staffing the table. To volunteer for a 75-minute shift, contact Katy Yocom.

The MFA Program plans to host an evening reception during the conference to provide an opportunity for students, alumni, and faculty to connect and for those interested in the program to learn more. Details will be announced in a future newsletter.

Fall 2012 Residency: Dramatic Writing Focus and Pre-reading Assignments

All students and faculty read Winter's Bone: A Novel by Daniel Woodrell before coming to the residency.

The Fall 2012 Program Script in Common area is dramatic writing and, as previously announced, features the script for the film Winter’s Bone, by screenwriters Debra Granik and Anne Rosellini. On the first Friday of residency, after the general welcome, Program Director Sena Jeter Naslund leads a discussion on Winter’s Bone during a plenary session. On Tuesday evening, Winter’s Bone screenwriters Granik and Rosellini speak to MFAers in a presentation open to the community. The next morning, they conduct a Q&A session open only to MFA students and faculty. The fall residency cross-genre focus also includes two panels of faculty members addressing aspects of dramatic writing. In the first, panel members discuss the ways in which specific plays or films have influenced their own work in dramatic writing, prose, or poetry. In the second, panelists examine the adaptation of prose into plays or film scripts.

Molly Peacock lectures about her one-woman staged monologue in poems, The Shimmering Verge, which she performed in theatres throughout North America, including a showcase production at Urban Stages in New York City in February 2006.

All students and faculty read the script for True West before coming to the residency.

All MFA students and faculty should complete the following reading and viewing before arriving at residency: •   read the novel from which the film was adapted: Winter’s Bone: A Novel by Daniel Woodrell •   view the movie Winter’s Bone •   read the Winter’s Bone screenplay (posted on portal, on the “preparing for the Fall 2012 residency” page) •     read the script for True West, a play by Sam Shepard (the Samuel French edition is recommended)

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Attention: Changes in Faculty Book/Script in Common Essay Assignment

Students (except new students entering ENG610 and those entering ENG650 and ENG660) who are registered for the Fall 2012 semester are required to write a short critical essay on the Faculty Book/Script in Common in their area and submit it to the MFA program directors no later than October 18. This is a change in the essay assignment, which was previously submitted to the mentor within a semester packet. Each student should submit the 2- to 4-page essay on the Faculty Book/Script in Common in the area of study for Fall 2012 to mfadropbox@spalding.edu. Place the following information in the subject line in the order stated: "lastname, firstname FBIC essay."
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Fall 2012 Faculty Books/Scripts in Common

• Fiction: Ghosting, by Kirby Gann
• Poetry: Animal Time, by Greg Pape
• Creative Nonfiction: Crossing the Blue Willow Bridge: A Journey to My Daughter’s Birthplace in China, by Nancy McCabe
• Writing for Children and Young Adults: Same Sun Here, by Silas House and Neela Vaswani (discussion led by Silas House)
• Screenwriting: The Good Soldier, by Helena Kriel
• Playwriting:Sky Lines, by DM Barnes (to be posted on the MFA portal page)

Attention: Changes in Length of Workshop Submissions

The deadline to submit worksheets for the Fall 2012 residency workshop is September 26. Beginning this fall, students in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction submit at least 15 pages but no more than 20. The worksheet materials may be one piece or more than one piece. If the submission is a chapter from a novel or book-length work of narrative nonfiction, the student also submits a paragraph to a page (not included in the page count) summarizing the work as a whole. Excess pages will not be included in the Workshop Booklets, so please respect page limits.

Students in Poetry usually submit five poems, each beginning on a separate page, with a total of up to ten pages of text. Poets may choose to include poems longer than two pages but in that case should reduce the number of poems sent. At least three different poems should be submitted, unless a student’s mentor advises that the workshop piece focus on a single long poem of approximately ten pages.

In the Writing for Children and Young Adults area, writers of middle-grade and young-adult work send as their worksheets at least 15 pages of writing and not more than 20. For picture books, send the text for two picture books, and do not attempt to display the text in a way that suggests the format. Each picture book should start on a new page.

For the Screenwriting and Playwriting area, send 20 to 25 scripted pages. Students new to playwriting or screenwriting workshop include one 10-minute play or screenplay within the 20- to 25-page allotment; the balance of the workshop submission comes from another script. The workshop submission should be complete in itself, even if it is a scene or a selection from a longer work. When submitting part of a full-length screenplay, students should preface it with a four-page treatment of the script. These four pages are not included in the total page count.

These new page requirements can be found in the MFA Student Handbook 2012–13, which was updated August 16, and may be accessed under MFA Quick Links on the MFA portal page.
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Ireland 2013 Residency

Students and alumni may sign up now for the Ireland residency, to take place July 3–15, 2013, in Dublin and Galway. The residency includes a performance at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and attendance at the Galway Film Fleadh, an international film festival. To sign up as a traveler, visit http://www.efcollegestudytours.com/1181233. The trip enrollment deadline for current students and alumni is February 1. Registration for courses for the Summer 2013 semester opens October 22.
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Summer Residency in Paris

A group of 69 travelers, including 50 students, traveled to Paris for the MFA Program’s summer residency, July 18–30.

Students enjoy a light moment with a tour guide at Versailles.

Travelers included a mix of new students (the incoming class of 16 students was the largest ever for a summer residency); veteran travelers who have experienced residencies in England, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, and Italy; faculty; alumni; and guests. Two alumni participated in workshop, while others spent their time in Paris pursuing their own activities. Alums Nick Hartman (SW ’10) and Stephen Woodward (F ’11) served as post-graduncyate reside assistants.

From a home base at the Best Western Trianon Rive Gauche, located a few minutes' walk from Notre Dame cathedral and Shakespeare & Company bookstore, students walked each day through Luxembourg Gardens to classes at historic, rose-bedecked Reid Hall.

MFA students, faculty, and staff in the courtyard of Reid Hall in Paris.		The residency began with an opening dinner at Le Train Bleu, a vaulted and frescoed Belle-Epoque restaurant inside the Gare d’Lyon train station. The next morning, in the absence of Program Director Sena Jeter Naslund, who was unable to travel due to a broken foot, Associate Program Director Kathleen Driskell led the opening session. Students and faculty engaged in a lively discussion of the Program Book in Common, David McCullough’s The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris.
Poetry student Jerriod Avant reads from his work at Reid Hall.		Later, students took small-group walking tours designed around the McCullough book, led by travel author David Downie and photographer Alison Harris, to visit the neighborhoods and schools that drew 19th-century Americans such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mary Cassatt, and John Singer Sargent to Paris.

The entire MFA summer residency group toasted the memory of Bob Keith, late CNF student, at the Paris closing dinner.

Adding MFA Student Photos to Profile Page
Students should add pictures to their profile page on the MFA portal page. Your picture will show up when you send email from your Spalding account. It’s easy to do! On the MFA portal page, click on your name (to the upper right). Click on MY PROFILE. Click on EDIT MY PROFILE. Find the PICTURE section and add a picture. You may use the profile page as much or as little as you want.
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Deadline Dates and the MFA Calendar
MFA deadline dates and other MFA information are now available on the MFA calendar on the top left side of the MFA portal page. Mouse over the entries in any particular day to identify dates that are specific to you. Double-click on entries for more information. For longer entries, such as midsemester or end-of-semester entries, there may be a document attached to the date entry that you can open. Future months can be accessed by clicking the forward arrow to the right of the current month.
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Spalding Email Accounts
The MFA staff use student and faculty Spalding email accounts to communicate. Please check your account regularly. To forward your Spalding email to your home email account, see http://spalding.edu/about/technology/portal/. To receive your Spalding email account on your phone (or iPod or iPad), see http://spalding.edu/about/technology/spalding-mobile-access/.
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Check Out the MFA Blog
MFA faculty and alumni blog at blog.spalding.edu/mfainwriting. New posts are added weekly. The comment feature is now available.
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Facebook Fanpage Now Posting Contest and Other Information
The MFA Program has begun posting announcements regarding contests, calls for submissions, and grants on the MFA Facebook Fanpage. MFAers are invited to share their writerly news on the MFA fanpage. Send news about readings, blog entries, pictures, or other items of interest to mfafacebook@spalding.edu.
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MFA Alumni Association
The website for the MFA Alumni Association is http://www.spaldingmfaalum.com. If you have questions or are interested in working with this group, send Terry Price an email at terry@terryprice.net. Check out the Spalding MFA Alumni Facebook page.
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Alumni Access to MFA News and Residency Lectures
MFA alumni may access the MFA portal page to listen to residency lectures and to see the latest in MFA news. Go to my.spalding.edu. Username: MFAportal and Password: MFAportal! (Note: the password is case sensitive and there is an exclamation mark at the end of it.)

Life of a Writer

A. H. Jerriod Avant (P) had two poems, “Unusual Tightrope” and “Telling Question,” accepted for publication in Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, which is out of Texas A&M University and is published by Johns Hopkins University Press. The poems will appear in Volume 35, Number 3, Summer 2012 issue.
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Shannon Dawn Cavanaugh (F) was accepted for the second year into the Appalachian Writers Workshop at Hindman (Kentucky) Settlement School for the August workshop. Shannon studied short fiction this year with author Elizabeth “Betsy” Cox, winner of the 2011 Robert Penn Warren Award.
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Drema Drudge (F) is happy to report that her first piece of flash fiction, “One Liner,” has been published in the July issue of All Things Girl. It is available online at http://allthingsgirl.com/2012/07/one-liner-by-drema-drudge.
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Peter Field (SW), who will attend his first residency at Spalding this fall, recently joined the Willamette Writers Board of Directors as its new Program Coordinator and First Vice President. Willamette Writers holds numerous events throughout the year for its membership of just under 2,000, including a  conference that takes place the first weekend of August. (http://www.willamettewriters.com/) A reading of Peter’s short play, “The Benefit of the Doubt,” was staged in late July by The Portland Shakespeare Project.
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Rebekah Harris (W4CYA) was a featured speaker during Creative Writing Days at the 2012 Virginia Highlands Festival, held in Abingdon. The Festival annually attracts nearly 40,000 visitors to southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee. Rebekah writes young adult fiction and teaches at King College. http://www.rebekahharris.com
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A new poem by Sandra Irwin (P), “Lupus,” was published in April by anderbo, an online literary magazine. http://www.anderbo.com/anderbo1/apoetry-167.html
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Alice Jennings (P) was recently a participant in the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference in Massachusetts.
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Michelle Meade (PW) is workshopping her play, Beatrix Potter; A Nature’s Tale, by engaging recent Kansas Wesleyan University theatre graduates to enhance the revision process. She led three workshop readings in August following Spalding’s Paris residency and a quick NYC theatre trip. Her script includes live actors, puppetry arts, and original songs. http://www.michellemeade.net/index.html
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Amy M. Miller (CNF) is pleased that her essay “Knowing When to Call the Game,” originally published on her blog, ADDled, was re-published online by Offbeat Mama. Amy also has been publishing a monthly column, “Mama Likes . . .” for The Paper, an alternative monthly paper in Louisville. Visit her blog: http://www.addledmother.blogspot.com/
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Rick Neumayer’s (F) short story “The Snake Cane” has been accepted for publication in 34th Parallel Magazine.
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Christi Price (P) is excited to announce her poem “Continental flight 1240” has been named a finalist in the Midwest Writing Center’s 2012 Poetry Contest and will be published in the anthology Off Channel in Fall 2012.
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Ruth Stark (CNF) is pleased to announce that the 2012 Annual Conference of the American Library Association highlighted her book How to Work in Someone Else’s Country (University of Washington Press, 2011) as one of the “Best of the Best” University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries. The book is also featured with an excerpt in the Winter/Spring 2012 issue of Walden Magazine. http://www.waldenu.edu/About-Us/83234.htm
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Patsi B. Trollinger (W4CYA) participates in Children’s Day at the Kentucky Book Fair on November 9 in Frankfort with her books Perfect Timing and Thrill in the ’Ville. In late summer, she delivered a lecture on recent trends in children’s books as part of the programming for Alumni College at Emory & Henry College in Virginia. While there, she appeared on several radio programs to discuss her books. http://www.patsibtrollinger.com/
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Matt Wohl (SW) recently signed a purchase agreement for his script Agent Mom, a piece created during his first semester at Spalding University. Jonathan Krane, a Hollywood veteran with nearly fifty producing credits from Blind Date and Look Who’s Talking to Face Off and Phenomenon, optioned the script. Travis Weimer (SW), who works with Krane, brokered the deal. In addition, Matt just completed a teaching assignment at the Burlington College Summer Session Film Camp, where he taught screenwriting and graphic design.
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Current Spalding students Chris Blair (P), Sarah H. Boatwright (P), Joel Nelson (P), Kristen Becht (P), and alumna Nancy Long (P ’12) recently contributed guest posts for the blog of Spalding alumna Brooke Harris (P ’12), Babbling Brooke. During “Revision Week,” July 30 –August 3, each poet offered his/her ideas and insights on the revision process. The result was a wide range of commentary on revision and its impact on the craft of writing poems. http://babblingbrookeharris.blogspot.com/
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Dianne Aprile (CNF) signs her new book, A Landscape and Its Legacy: The Parklands of Floyds Fork (21st Century Parks, 2012), at the Kentucky Book Fair on November 10 in Frankfort (http://tinyurl.com/8lk5qot). She also had a signing at Carmichael’s Bookstore in Louisville in early September and was interviewed about the book on Kentucky Educational Television’s One to One, hosted by MFA student Bill Goodman (CNF). On August 12, Dianne launched a new “at home” reading series in Seattle with Washington poet Carol Levin. Called A Moveable Salon, its readings will be hosted by writers in their homes. The first Moveable Salon featured Louisville poet (and Spalding faculty member) Lynnell Edwards, who was visiting Seattle. Dianne is one of three Washington artists invited to read at the annual Artist Trust board retreat in Snohomish, Washington, on September 29. http://www.artisttrust.org/
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Susan Campbell Bartoletti (W4CYA) will be a keynote speaker at the Symposium on Ethics and Children’s Literature set for September 13–16 at the Janet Prindle Institute of DePauw University in Illinois and at the SCBWI-Illinois Writers Day on November 10 in Palatine. She’ll be a featured speaker at the Ohio Educational Literacy Media Association’s state conference (October 17–19 in Sandusky). During late summer, she “hunkered down” to read the proofs of her next historical-fiction novel, Down the Rabbit Hole, to be published by Scholastic in March 2013 as part of the Dear America series.
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Larry Brenner (PW/SW) will be a panelist for the “Demystifying the Black List” discussion at the IFP’s Film Week Conference. The panel is Sunday, September 16, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center Plaza.
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Ellie Bryant’s (CNF/W4CYA) short story “Sagres” has been accepted for publication in the forthcoming issue of WomenArts Quarterly Journal (WAQ), an initiative of Women in the Arts, published by University of Missouri-St. Louis.
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Sheila Callaghan’s (PW/SW) interview with actor Anthony Heald appeared in the July/August 2012 issue of American Theatre magazine. Anthony, highly regarded as a Shakespearean actor, is married to Spalding alumna Robin Heald (W4CYA ’06).
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K. L. Cook (F) is the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Wichita State University in Kansas from mid-September to mid-October, where he will give a reading, visit classes, and mentor a small group of MFA students in one-on-one tutorials. On Friday, November 9, he will be in Prescott, Arizona, as a featured reader for the Literary Southwest Series. Kenny’s short story “Filament” is included in Best American Mystery Stories 2012, available in October.
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Debra Kang Dean (P) read with Jason Nguyen playing the dan bau, a Vietnamese monochord instrument, in the Lemonstone Reading Series, sponsored by Bloomington’s Writers Guild in March. (View Jason online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ii__6zVNAE.) Her essay “‘Archaic Mysteries’: An Appreciation of Robert Hayden and ‘The Night-Blooming Cereus’” has been accepted for inclusion in Logic and Love, a collection on the life and work of Robert Hayden, edited by Ross Gay and Patrick Rosal. “Learning from the Pine: Exploring Word, World, and Self through the Twelve-tone Renku,” a piece Debra wrote in response to a call for submissions by contributors of The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, is under consideration for an online teaching guide to accompany the anthology of essays.  In addition, “Further Remains: A Mosaic” and “Two Fishes” appeared on the Spalding MFA blog and on the Antler blog, respectively. Two of her poems, “Readings” and “Sentences,” are included in Solo Café’s special issue on teachers and students, and “On the Narrow Road” and “Genealogy” are forthcoming in an anthology of writers of Okinawan descent from Hawai’i, edited and printed by Lee Tonouchi, “the Pidgin Guerrilla.”
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Roy Hoffman’s (CNF/F) essay “Leaving Alabama Behind” appeared in The New York Times on June 28. It explored the end of an era at the Mobile newspaper, where he has written human interest stories for many years, and other papers. (http://tinyurl.com/7rv8v8e)  An audio version of Roy’s novel, Chicken Dreaming Corn, narrated by Toni Orans, is available online from Audible and Amazon (http://tinyurl.com/8o4kghc).
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Helena Kriel (SW) has been teaching advanced screenwriting techniques to industry professionals in Johannesburg, South Africa. She led two weekend seminars at a forum called “At the Table.” Also, Helena has been approached by producers who are in the process of establishing a film school in Johannesburg. Helena is in meetings to discuss the possibility of heading up the screenwriting part of the program. The program seeks to train young black filmmakers.
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Robin Lippincott’s (F) novel Our Arcadia is currently being adapted for the stage by a theatre company in Boston with the production date to be announced. Robin is also serving as a judge for the Drue Heinz Literature Prize again this year.
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Nancy McCabe (CNF) has an essay on the 2012 Best American Essays Notable List, “Threads,” which was published last fall in Prairie Schooner. The same essay is on the Notable List for Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 as well. Her essay “Rereading Childhood: Journeys through Female Imagination” appeared in the spring issue of The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature, and her review of Ned Stuckey-French’s The American Essay in the American Century and Tim Aubry’s Reading as Therapy was in the summer issue of American Literature. In the spring she also served on an MFA creative nonfiction thesis committee at the University of Iowa. Last spring, Nancy signed a contract with the University of Missouri Press for a book tentatively titled Medium-Sized House on the Prairie: A Memoir about Imaginative Heroines and Literary Landscapes. She would like to thank all of the Spalding alumni, students, faculty, and staff who signed a petition to protest when it was announced in May that the press would be closing.  Everyone’s voices made a difference, and the public outcry has led to an announcement that the press will remain open.
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Sena Jeter Naslund, Program Director, is among the writers who will be featured at the Writer’s Block Festival set for Saturday, October 13, in the NuLu district of East Market in downtown Louisville. A variety of panels, discussions, and readings and a print fair of independent publishers will be free and open to the public (http://louisvilleliteraryarts.org/writersblock/.) Workshops in a variety of genres are also open for a modest registration fee. Other featured writers will include fiction faculty Crystal Wilkinson and alums Kelly Creagh (W4CYA ’08), Sonja de Vries (P ’09), Katrina Kittle (F ’08), and Chris Mattingly (P ’10).  In August, Sena gave three presentations on Nantucket Island concerning the interface of history and fiction in Ahab’s Wife, as well as Four Spirits (her civil rights novel) and Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette. She also spoke at the Birmingham-Southern College series Books and Brunch on “Fiction Writing and Reconfiguring Classic Narratives,” focusing on her most recent novel, Adam & Eve.
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Lesléa Newman (W4CYA) enjoyed watching several productions of A Letter to Harvey Milk, a new musical based on her short story of the same title, in New York City in July. The show, a Next Link Project of the New York Musical Festival, was awarded “Most Promising  Musical” as well as “Best Book” (Jerry James) and tied for Best Lyrics (Ellen M. Schwartz). Lesléa is also pleased that both the panels she proposed for the 2013 AWP Conference have been accepted: “It Could Always Be Verse: Books in Verse for Young Adult and Middle Grade Readers” (panelists: Helen Frost, Meg Kearney, Marilyn Nelson, Kwame Alexander and Lesléa Newman) and “Poetry for the People: A Reading and  Discussion of Bringing Poetry into the Community by the Present and Past Poets Laureate of Northampton, Massachusetts” (panelists: Martín  Espada, Janet Aalfs, Lesléa Newman, Lenelle Moïse, and Richard Michelson). Lesléa also has her very first book trailer, created for October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard. Available on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XFdG3Id9Sg
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Greg Pape (P) has a new book forthcoming, Four Swans (Lynx House Press, 2013). He is on sabbatical from the University of Montana this fall and is looking for readings and eager to travel. His book Animal Time is available from Accents Publishing. Greg’s poem “When The World Began to End” is forthcoming in River Styx. His essay “Finding Levine” will appear in Coming Close: Poets Pay Tribute to Philip Levine as Teacher and Mentor (Prairie Lights Book Publishers, 2013).
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Neela Vaswani (F, CNF) was a visiting author with Symphony Space’s Thalia Book Camp for Kids in New York City in July. Currently, she is a featured author among amazing visual artists at the “15 Years of South Asian Women’s Creative Collective” exhibit at the Queens Museum of Art, to run through October 7. At the end of August, Neela began a semester as visiting-writer-in-residence at Manhattanville College’s MFA in Writing program. In other news, a recent children’s book co-authored by Neela and fellow Spalding faculty member Silas House (F), Same Sun Here, received a starred review from The Horn Book magazine.
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Crystal Wilkinson (F) is among the writers to be featured at the Writer’s Block Festival on Saturday, October 13, in downtown Louisville. Crystal is co-owner and operator of Wild Fig Books in Lexington.
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Katy Yocom was a featured guest contributor in July for StyleSubstanceSoul. Her essay “Tiger Women” interweaves her travels to India, the plight of endangered Bengal tigers, and the joy and fury that come from growing up with a strong mother. Katy thanks everyone who commented on the website.To view the essay, visit:
http://stylesubstancesoul.com/2012/07/tiger-women-by-katy-yocom/.
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Alumni

Jennifer Anthony’s (W4CYA ’05) short story “Under the Weather” will be published in the Fall 2012 edition of The First Line (Blue Cubicle Press). The quarterly journal is also available for e-book readers through Amazon. The journal made a cameo appearance in the recent indie movie Ruby Sparks. http://www.thefirstline.com/
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Linda Bilodeau (F ’11) is pleased to announce that her short story “Sweet Hope” was accepted for publication in The Writing Disorder, a literary journal. The story will appear in their Summer 2013 issue (June). Linda thanks Kenny Cook and members of her 640 semester workshop as well as her mentor Robin Lippincott for all their fine comments on this story.
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Deborah Begel (CNF ’06) is now the fulltime developmental writing specialist at Northern New Mexico College in Espanola. She is working with a task force to develop and improve curriculum, and she is running the Writing Center, where students go for help with essays and research papers. Deborah is teaching three composition classes this fall.
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In April, Bobbi Buchanan (CNF ’04) was a featured reader, along with Katerina Stoykova-Klemer (P/CNF ’09) and Julie Marie Wade, in the Axton Literary Festival’s “A Wrinkle in Time: Women Writers Envision the Future,” hosted by the University of Louisville at the Rudyard Kipling. In May, Bobbi attended the Kentucky Women’s Book Festival at U of L. On August 31, Bobbi and fellow alum Erin Keane (P ’04), along with noted Kentucky author George Ella Lyon, headlined a reading at Carmichael’s Bookstore to celebrate Labor Day and the publication of their work in Motif: All the Livelong Day, an anthology of writings about work. Bobbi’s op-ed piece “Don’t Hang Up—That’s My Mother Calling,” published in The New York Times in December 2003, has been selected by McGraw-Hill Higher Education to be used in the college textbook Sentence Skills with Readings, slated for publication in January 2013; this will be the third college writing textbook in which the essay has appeared. Bobbi also has accepted a position on the advisory board of the Green River Writers. After a year-long hiatus, she relaunched New Southerner, an online magazine that promotes self-sufficiency, environmentalism, and support for local economies. The magazine’s annual literary contest is underway through September 30, and final judges include Spalding fiction faculty member Silas House in fiction, Jane Gentry Vance in poetry, and Karen Salyer McElmurray in nonfiction. Instructions are available on the website for mailing submissions, and online submissions are accepted. http://www.newsoutherner.com/contest/
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Kelly Creagh’s (W4CYA ’08) second young-adult novel, Enshadowed, was published in August by Simon and Schuster/Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Itis the sequel to Kelly’s debut novel, Nevermore (2010), a story about a goth boy and a cheerleader who are paired to work on an English project about Edgar Allan Poe. In Enshadowed, cheerleader Isobel must travel to Baltimore to face the legendary figure of the Poe Toaster in the graveyard where Poe lies buried. Kelly is currently working on the third and final novel in the trilogy. www.kellycreagh.com
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Sonja de Vries (P ’09) will be reading at the Writer’s Block Festival in Louisville, on Saturday, October 13. Sonja’s poem “Fragments: Love Poem for a Soldier,” will be published in the next On the Issues Magazine. For more information about the reading:  http://louisvilleliteraryarts.org/
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Joan Donaldson’s (CNF ’08) essay “The Chemistry of Good Cooks” was published in The Christian Science Monitor (http://tinyurl.com/8sd3aqy). She learned that over the years, her CS Monitor essays have been translated into Russian and Arabic and have appeared in other newspapers. Joan also sold essays to Mary Jane Butter’s Farm Magazine and to A Simple Life Magazine. In July, Joan was a workshop facilitator at the 2012 Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, organized by George Getschow (CNF ’05) and sponsored by the Mayborn School of Journalism, part of the University of North Texas.
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Kathryn Eastburn (CNF ’06) will share the podium with novelist Nick Arvin (Articles of War, The Reconstructionist) at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop’s Fall 2012 Writers Buzz event, “Turning Life Into Art,” Saturday, October 27. Kathryn is currently teaching online and in Denver as a Lighthouse Writers Workshop (https://lighthousewriters.org/) faculty member and will teach Introduction to Journalism at Colorado College in Colorado Springs in October. Her weekly personal essay/column, The Middle Distance, has appeared online and on the air for 103 weeks and was recently picked up by northern Colorado public radio, KUNC. http://tinyurl.com/9naz9ck
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Carolyn Flynn (F/CNF ’12) has teamed up with fellow alum Terry Price (F ’06) to offer the “Free Conference Call for Writers: Crafting the Writing Life” each Tuesday at 11 a.m. Eastern time. The podcast provides inspiration and ideas to hone your writing tools and stay on your “true north” path—write the piece you were meant to write. Some weeks, Carolyn and Terry have a conversation about craft or tools for being more effective as a writer; other weeks, they have interviews. So far this year, Terry and Carolyn have interviewed Spalding faculty members Richard Goodman (French Dirt, Bicycle Diaries, and many other fine works) and K.L. Cook (Love Songs for the Quarantined, Last Call, The Girl from Charnelle). Also, Carolyn recently spoke on “Originality” to the SouthWest Writers group, blending some of the ideas and techniques from a two-part series she and Terry did on the podcast in May. The podcast includes news about writer’s retreats that Terry and Carolyn are leading. Already, two are in the works for 2013, including January 31–February 3 in Albuquerque at the lovely high desert setting of the Norbertine Center and April 18–21 near Nashville at the Penuel Ridge Retreat Center. The podcast also is available for subsequent download from iTunes or at Carolyn's website, http://www.carolynflynn.com/ , or at Terry's website, http://www.terryprice.net/
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Amanda Forsting (F ’09) won first place in the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning’s (Lexington, Kentucky) Next Great Writers Contest with an excerpt from her novel Becoming Genevieve.
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Catt Foy (F ’12) attended the David R. Collins Writers’ Conference hosted by the Midwest Writing Center June 28–30. The conference was held at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa. Catt’s book, Psycards—A New Alternative to Tarot, was also featured at the June 30 book fair. http://www.cattfoy.com
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Thea Gavin (P ’05) returned to the Grand Canyon’s historic North Rim Lodge in May to present poems and photos from her time there as National Park Service Artist-in-Residence last summer. In June she gave the presentation again at the REI store in Tustin, California. Orange Coast magazine solicited a short piece on her barefoot hiking experiences for its October 2012 issue, and her poem “Another Trail Running Melodrama” is forthcoming this fall in Western Press Books’ new anthology, Manifest West: Eccentricities of Geography. Her nature poems continue to appear in the bi-monthly newsletters of the Orange County chapter of the California Native Plant Society. Visit her blog, Barefoot Wandering and Writing. http://theagavin.wordpress.com/
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Karen George’s (F ’09) poems “Feasting” and “Grace” appeared in the special edition of Sugar Mule Literary Magazine, “Women Writing Nature,” Issue 41. Her poems “Totem,” “Transformations,” and “Enmeshed” appeared in the inaugural issue of ninepatch: A Creative Journal for Women and Gender Studies. In addition, 94 Creations has accepted her poems “Trees, On My Way” and “Hemlock Lodge, Natural Bridge, Kentucky” for their next issue. She was one of three judges who selected poems for inclusion in the Cincinnati Writers Project’s anthology A Few Good Words. Find the ninepatch poems online: http://encompass.eku.edu/ninepatch/
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Joe Gisondi (CNF ’08) wrote an essay titled “Title IX Needed Now More Than Ever” that has just been published in The Contemporary Reader, 11th edition, by Pearson. This book is used primarily in college composition courses across the country.
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Jackie Gorman (F ’10) is thrilled to announce that her short-story collection The Viewing Room has been named winner of the Flannery O’Connor 2012 Short Fiction Award. The book will be published by the University of Georgia Press in Fall 2013. http://ugapress.blogspot.com/.
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Nathan Gower (F ’08) has been selected as a winner in the 50 Kisses international film competition for his short script “Colton’s Big Night.” The script is in preproduction as part of a crowd-sourced narrative feature film and will have its theatrical premiere in London, England, on Valentine’s Day of 2013. Additionally, Nathan’s short script “The Warehouse” took second place honors (first round) in the 2012 NYC Midnight Screenwriting Competition. He is currently seeking a producer for the script. See Nathan’s scripts online: http://tinyurl.com/8pg64uc. Finally, his short story “Digging the Hole” is now available in the 2012 Baltimore Review print edition. Online at:
http://tinyurl.com/9jaytbm.
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Brooke Harris (P ’12) devoted a week of postings on her blog, Babbling Brooke, to guest posts by Spalding students and an alumna on the topic of the revision process for poetry. Contributors included MFA students Chris Blair (P), Sarah H. Boatwright (P), Joel Nelson (P), and Kristen Becht (P), and alumna Nancy Long (P ’12). Brooke’s “Revision Week” was July 30 to August 3, and each poet offered his/her ideas and insights, yielding a wide range of commentary on the craft of writing poems. http://babblingbrookeharris.blogspot.com/
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Colleen S. Harris (P ’09) successfully completed her comprehensive exams and is now a doctoral candidate for the Ed.D. in learning and leadership at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). She is excited to report that she has been invited to present two papers in Europe this fall, “Mythology as Curricular Crossroads: The Intersection of Constructivist Theory, Women’s Studies, Creative Writing, and Student Research Skill Development” at the Myth & Interdisciplinarity International Conference in Madrid in October, and “Adding Meat to Metaphorical Bones: Research, Critical Thinking, and Leveraging the Academic Library for Creative Writing Praxis” at the Second Global Conference on Writing: Paradigms, Power, Poetics, Praxes in Salzburg in November. Colleen is also the guest editor for this year’s issue of The Enchanting Verses. She is teaching two classes at UTC in Fall 2012: an upper-level undergraduate workshop in creative nonfiction, and a freshman seminar class titled “Reality TV in Literature: The Hunger Games and its Predecessors.” 
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Chris Helvey (F ’06) participated in a radio interview promoting upcoming literary events in central Kentucky and in the fifth annual Gathering of Authors in Frankfort, Kentucky.
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Patty Houston (F ’08) is teaching a fiction writing class this fall semester at the University of Cincinnati. Her short story “Full Metal Corsets” has been accepted for publication in the upcoming issue of 94 Creations.
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René R. (Ketterer) Irvine (SW ’07) attended Writers’ Symposium workshops during GenCon 2012 in Indianapolis. GenCon Indy is hailed as the “Best Four Days in Gaming,” and writers of fiction, plays, screenplays, and role-playing games (RPG’s) all gather to network about craft and marketing.
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Kaylene Johnson (CNF ’03) has published her fifth book about Alaska and the people who live there. Canyons and Ice: The Wilderness Travels of Dick Griffith was published by Ember Press in July and will be distributed by the University of Alaska Press beginning spring of 2013. A review by Jon Krakauer called the book “gripping and inspiring.” The Alaska Dispatch said, “It’s a damn fine read.” The book has received 5-star reviews by Grand Canyon historian Tom Martin, Alaska outdoor writer Craig Medred, and wilderness icon Roman Dial. For more information about the book, visit the website: http://www.canyonsandice.com/
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Bonnie Johnson (F ’04) and Vickie Weaver (F ’05) attended a literary luncheon June 9 at Elmendorf Farm in Kentucky to hear author Barbara Kingsolver. The event was arranged by the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning of Lexington.
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Marci Rae Johnson (P ’05) is a featured reader in Valparaiso University’s Wordfest reading series this month, and her poem “Desk with Window Frame and Heaven” will appear in an upcoming issue of The Other Journal. Her panel “Faithful Niche or Faithful Kitsch? The Necessity of Christian Literary Publishing” has been accepted for inclusion at the 2013 AWP writing conference. Spalding graduate Dave Harrity (P ’07) will also be participating in the panel.
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Erin Keane (P ’04) visited the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, and Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee, in the spring to lead workshops   and read from her collection of poems, Death-Defying Acts (WordFarm, 2010). Erin served as guest poetry editor for the Fall 2012 issue of The Louisville Review and finished a two-year term as a poetry editor for Strange Horizons. Poems & Plays published her short play “Manicpixiedreamgirl Panic” in the Spring 2012 issue, and her short play “Sweet Virginia” was selected for a world premiere in the Ten-Tucky Festival (September 20–30) in Louisville. She teaches in the online MFA in Creative Writing program at National University and reports on the arts and humanities for WFPL, Louisville’s NPR affiliate.
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Cyn Kitchen’s (F ’05) short-story collection Ten Tongues (Motes, 2010) is now available in paperback. The new edition features two new stories and is available from most online sellers. In August, Cyn attended the Wet Mountain Valley Writer’s Workshop in Westcliffe, Colorado, where she sat for a week in a classroom with Abigail Thomas. Cyn is working on a memoir that she will begin shopping later this fall. Earlier this spring, Cyn ventured to Lincoln Memorial University to attend the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival.
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Katrina Kittle (F ’08) is teaching the course “Writing the Socially Conscious Novel” for Wright State University’s fall semester in Dayton, Ohio. She will also be a guest workshop leader and panelist at Louisville’s Writer’s Block Festival in October.
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JoAnn LoVerde-Dropp (P ’10) was hired as an adjunct faculty member in the English Department at Southern Polytechnic State University in Marietta, Georgia.
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Nancy Long (P ’12), along with alums Barbara Sabol (F ’10) and Caroline LeBlanc (P ’11), launched a poetry book-review and interview blog called Poetry Matters. (http://readwritepoetry.blogspot.com/) In June, Nancy posted the first two entries for the blog: an interview with poet Christine Rhein and a review of Rhein’s debut book, Wild Flight. In July, for the nonprofit art-education organization Writing for a Change Foundation of Bloomington, she volunteered to facilitate a one-evening writing circle on the use of metaphor. At the end of July, she returned from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she attended Victoria Redel’s workshop “Reaching Out, Reaching In: A Poetry Workshop.” She is grateful to FAWC for awarding her a scholarship to attend. She encourages all Spalding-ites to check out the FAWC’s Summer Program offerings. Lastly, Nancy is honored to report that the following poems have been recently accepted for publication: “but so beautiful, yes?” will be in the 2013 issue of RHINO; “dream, tiger” will be in the inaugural (Fall 2012) issue of The Golden Key, and “Haibun: Honeymoon at Mackinac Island” will be in the 2013 issue Noctua Review.
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Susan Mallory’s (P ’11) poems, “Blink,” “Questions,” and “Tight Place,” were included in the Summer 2012 online issue of Hospital Drive, the literature and humanities journal of the University of Virginia School of Medicine. (http://hospitaldrive.med.virginia.edu/)
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Chris Mattingly (P ’10) recently accepted a full-time teaching position at East Georgia State College. Chris will be reading at Writer’s Block Literary Festival in Louisville in October. He has recently read at Prairie Lights Books in Iowa City with Ross Gay, at Quill’s Coffee in Louisville with Maurice Manning, and at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, the Chicago High School for the Arts, Dodo Cafe in Chicago, House of Wax in Louisville, and the Second Sunday Series in Frankfort, Kentucky. His first full-length book of poems, Scuffletown, will be published by Typecast in 2013. Chris was featured on Poet’s Weave, a program on Bloomington, Indiana’s NPR station, this summer. The podcast is available online. http://tinyurl.com/99cjxpr
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Loreen Niewenhuls (F ’07) is blogging as she completes a 1,000-mile Great Lakes Walk this summer along the shores of all five Great Lakes. She now has a contract with Crickhollow Books of Milwaukee to publish the book about this adventure in 2013. Visit the blog:  http://LakeTrek.blogspot.com
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Joe Peacock (F ’08) has two short stories being published this summer. The first, “Raking Miss Hannah’s Leaves,” will appear in Adriena Dame’s (F ’07) 94 Creations; the second, “The Girl in the White Culottes,” in Enhance Magazine, No. 8. Joe continues teaching classes at Indiana University Southeast, including a freshman composition course and a creative writing course this fall. He and his wife are expecting their ninth grandchild in October.
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Tom Pierce (F ’05) is a 2012 recipient of an Emerging Artist Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, a state arts agency supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Mary Popham (F ’03) has joined the Book Committee of the new Louisville Corn Island chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
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Molly Power (F ’07) will have her story “Dark Bread” published in the next issue of Yuan Yang, A Journal of Hong Kong and International Writing. Her short-story collection, The Caravan Passes On, was selected as a finalist in the 2012 New Rivers Press MVP competition.
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Diana Raab (CNF ’03) taught “From Journal to Memoir” at the Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference in June. In July, her book review on three books about addiction, “Stumbling Into Addiction and Crawling Out,” was published in the Washington Post. In August, her poetry collection, Listening to Africa, was reviewed in Foreword Reviews, and in June/July she was on a blog tour for the poetry collection through Tribute Books. In June she was interviewed on the TV show Literary Gumbo. Her poem “Shivering” was published in an anthology, Hot Summer Nights. Her poem “48-hour Travel” was published in Citron Review (Summer 2012). She is currently a guest nonfiction editor for The Louisville Review.
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Julia Schuster (F ’07) had a signing of her new collection of short stories, poetry, and sketches, The Ingredients of Gumbo, at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on  August 25. She will be a featured presenter at the Tennessee Association of Independent Schools’ annual conference in November, and in January she will lead a weekend writing retreat, “Journals of Thanksgiving,” at Our Lady Queen of Peace Retreat Center in Dancyville, Tennessee.
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Graham Shelby (CNF ’10) wrote a profile of Kentucky political journalist Al Cross for the October issue of Kentucky Living magazine. As a professional storyteller, Graham performed at Kentucky On Stage, a showcase featuring artists who’ve earned a spot in the Kentucky Arts Council’s Performing Artists’ Directory. At the showcase, Graham performed “The Attack of the Japanese Pre-Schoolers,” a story he first wrote as an essay while studying at Spalding. In July, the public radio program O Dark 30 devoted an entire weekly podcast to Graham’s radio stories, essays, and interviews. 
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Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen’s (W4CYA ’03) third young adult novel, The Raft, was released in August by Feiwel and Friends/Macmillan. The book is an alternate selection of the Children’s Book of the Month Club and will be a Scholastic Book Fair title in early 2013. Her first YA novel, The Compound, recently won the 2012 Young Hoosier Book Award in the middle-grade category, and in October, she will be a keynote speaker at the Washington Media Library Association conference in Yakima.
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Kathleen Thompson (F ’03) was among the top ten semi-finalists (announced in August) for the 2012 Tarcher-Penquin Top Artist Award for her novel, Remembering Fire. She continues to write for WELD for Birmingham (online presence as weldbham) and has a third blog forthcoming on the subject of her trip to Paris for the creative nonfiction workshop. She has also written a forthcoming guest blog about the Spalding workshop itself for the Lyrical Pens website.
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Tommy Trull’s (P ’11) play The 27 Club was performed at the 2012 New York International Fringe Festival at The Kraine Theatre in Manhattan. The play received great reviews, was part of a “Playwrights Picking New Plays” spotlight article, and was selected for publication in New York Theatre Experience’s upcoming “Best of the Fringe” collection.
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Lori Tucker-Sullivan’s (CNF ’11) short essay “Forgetting” appeared in the Readers Write section of the September issue of The Sun, a literary journal based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Her poem “The Viscosity of Honey” will appear in the upcoming anthology The Cancer Poetry Project, which can be purchased online: http://www.cancerpoetryproject.com/
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Christamar Varicella (F ’04) is experimenting with the novelization of a book blog. The Daily Brass, his (mostly) fictional blog, features a pretend staff (Meet the Staff) conducting fake interviews (Interview with Christamar Varicella) and reviewing books that may or may not exist (The Supreme Bean, Blood Bites, Foxes and Chickens, an Allegory). The blog also features satirical open letters to famous authors (An Open Letter to Cormac McCarthy, An Open Letter to Philip Roth) and serialized parody novels (The Zombie Bocephus). Christamar warns: “This is a very weird and silly blog. Even the comment section cannot be trusted.” http://dailybrass.blogspot.com/
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Vickie Weaver (F ’05) and Bonnie Johnson (F ’04) attended a literary luncheon June 9 at Elmendorf Farm in Kentucky to hear speaker Barbara Kingsolver. The event was arranged by the Carnegie Center of Lexington. 
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Colleen Wells (CNF ’10) had two poems in the summer edition of The Barefoot Review, “Lithium” and “We Line Up.” Colleen’s essay “The Zenith of My Madness” will be part of an anthology tentatively titled Fire Stories—Further Thoughts on Madness, Mystery & Beauty and issued by Vocal Virginia, an organization that describes itself as the voice of mental health recovery. Colleen is spearheading a book drive and service learning project in her composition classes at Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. Her students will be volunteering at Pages to Prisoners, an organization providing books and letters to prisoners across the country. In conjunction with the assignment, she also will have students view Shakespeare Behind Bars, which she first saw at a Spalding residency. In other recent news, Colleen attended a talk by Scott Russell Sanders on his life-long love of reading and his path to writing; the event was at Fairview Middle School in Bloomington, Indiana, in May.
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Kit Willihnganz (W4CYA ’08) has been named as a 2012 recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship Award from the Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, which is supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Corrections

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Personals

Our heartfelt sympathy to Lesléa Newman (W4CYA) on the death of her mother, Florence Newman, on August 22.

Our heartfelt sympathy to Edie Hemingway (W4CYA ’04) on the death of her father, Frank Robert Morris III, on September 14.

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Classifieds

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Reminders and Notes

Faculty Advisory Committee FAC) for Spring 2012
FAC members are announced by the MFA Office at the beginning of each semester. The Program Directors consult with the FAC about recommendations for admissions and about programmatic and administrative development and changes. Both faculty and students are invited to make suggestions to the FAC for exploration by the Program Director and larger faculty. However, students and faculty should directly and immediately consult the Associate Program Director about any issues concerning specific individuals’ performance in the program.

• Robin Lippincott, fiction
• Greg Pape , poetry
• Richard Goodman, creative nonfiction
• Ellie Bryant, writing for children and young adults:
• Sam Zalutsky, playwriting/screenwriting

Financial Aid: The MFA Program offers scholarships to students entering their first semester in the program. Returning students who desire financial assistance other than student loans should apply for graduate assistantships. Applications for scholarships and assistantships should be directed to the MFA Office (mfa@spalding.edu). Information for assistantships is on the MFA portal page.

Federal student loans are available to all eligible graduate students and are available for the fall, spring, or summer semesters. For help with financial aid questions, call Vickie Montgomery at (800) 896-8941, ext. 4330 or (502) 873-4330 or email vmontgomery@spalding.edu. Students may enter or update their FAFSA information online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
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For Fall 2012 semester: Fill out the FAFSA for the 2012-13 school year, using 2011 tax information. Refer to MFA Financial Aid FAQs on the MFA portal page.

Classifieds in the newsletter: Submissions of writing-related advertisements, such as calls for submission, services for writers, etc., may be made to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu.

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Life of a Writer: Please remember to email Life of a Writer news to the program because this is a vital part of our community—sharing writing successes. The program wants to share good news with everyone and compiles records of publications, presentations, readings, employment, and other related information on faculty, students, and alums.

Life of a Writer pieces should be written as a paragraph in third person. Include area of concentration in parenthesis after name. For example, (F) for fiction, (P) for poetry, (CNF) for creative nonfiction; (W4C) for writing for children and young adults, (SW) for screenwriting, and (PW) for playwriting. For alumni, please include the year of graduation, such as Jake Doe (SW ’08). Spell out month and state names. Include title(s) of the work, publishers, date of publication, and complete web site addresses when appropriate. Send to mfanewsletter@spalding.edu.

Examples of kinds of activities that might be included in the Life of a Writer column are publishing in journals or magazines or in book form, winning awards or other prizes, giving a public reading, visiting a classroom to talk about writing, judging a writing competition, attending a writers conference, serving on a panel about writing, or volunteering in a project about writing or literacy.
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