Dan Mueller's new book is awarded 1st runner up for Santa Fe Writers' Project Fiction Prize

Dan Mueller's Nights I Dreamed of Hubert Humphrey was awarded first runner up for the 2013 Santa Fe Writers' Project Fiction Prize.  The link for the announcement is www.sfwp.com/2013-winners-fiction/. Bravo, Dan!

Dan Cryer and Lindsey Ives Garner OGS Awards

Dan Cryer is a recipient for the OGS Future Faculty Award. The Future Faculty Grant awards up to $2,000.00 for summer coursework, research, or professional development opportunities directly related to preparing the nominee for a career in higher education. The award supports educational, research, or professional development opportunities not normally available as part of the student’s degree program. Dan received this award to participate in the 2013 Rhetoric Society of America Summer Institute as well as to do research in the archive of the Foundation of Aldo Leopold for his dissertation, "Inventing the Citizen: Narratives of the Vita Activa in Aldo Leopold's Conservation Rhetorics."

Lindsey Ives is a recipient of the OGS Graduate Research Supplement. The Graduate Research Supplement awards up to $2,000.00 to facilitate completion of the MFA or PhD dissertation. These awards support direct expenses incurred for archival or field research. This summer Lindsey will conduct research in Mississippi and Tennessee for her dissertation "Case Not Closed: Whiteness and the Rhetorical Genres of Freedom Summer."

Dan Cryer wins Susan Deese-Roberts TA of the year award

It's no surprise that university awards for teaching always go to TAs in the English Department. We simply have the brightest, most experienced, committed, pedagogically sophisticated TAs on campus. Many congratulations to Dan Cryer for winning the OSET TA award this year. Congratulations to all the TAs who were nominated: we know how excellent you are. gail

Erika Sanchez wins "Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest" & Natalie Scenters-Zapico is runner up

Good news from former and current poetry MFA students! MFA grad Erika Sanchez won the "Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest" and Natalie Scenters-Zapico, who is defending this spring, won an honorable mention in the same contest!

The prize is a pretty prestigious one:

"Now in its sixth decade, the "Discovery" Poetry Contest is designed to attract large audiences to poets who have not yet published a book. For this sixth year, the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center is proud to partner with Boston Review.

Many winners of this contest have gone on to distinguished careers as poets, among them John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Nick Flynn, David St. John and Rosanna Warren."

Here's the link to the announcement and more information! http://www.92y.org/discovery

Some great MFA publishing news to start off 2013

MFA Alumni Jeremy Collins’s essay “Papa Don’t Preach” received the Wabash prize for nonfiction, judged by Mary Karr, and will appear in 2013 in The Sycamore Review.

MFA Alumni Elizabeth Tannen’s essay “Jackie” appeared in The Rumpus in December 2012. You can read her essay here: http://therumpus.net/2012/12/the-sunday-rumpus-essay-jackie/

Current MFA student Nora Hickey’s essay “The World is a Mirror (and Other Tales of Drinking)" was a finalist for Diagram’s nonfiction contest and will appear in the magazine in February 2013. Congrats to Jeremy, Elizabeth and Nora!

Nick DePascal Pushcart & Best of the Net Poetry nominations

Nick DePascal has just been nominated by the Emerson Review for a Pushcart Prize for his poem "Entryways." The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, fiction, and essays published in small presses each year. The winners' work is collected in an anthology sold in most bookstores and available at most libraries. To find out more about the Pushcart Prize, you could visit http://www.pushcartprize.com/, and to find out more information about The Emerson Review, you could visit http://pages.emerson.edu/organizations/emerson_review/index.html.

Last month, another poem of his was nominated for Sundress Publications' "Best of the Net" anthology. You could find out more about the "Best of the Net" anthology at http://www.sundresspublications.com/bestof/note.htm.

Julie Williams publishing and prizes!

Julie Williams' article, "Romancing the Desert: Landscape and Ideology in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop" was published in the fall 2011 edition of Plaza: Dialogues in Language and Literature.

Her paper, "Female Embodiment and the Western Landscape in the Story of Mary MacLane" won the Phyllis Bridges Award for Outstanding Paper in Biography at the SW/TX Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference in February.

Julie also won the Feminist Research Institute's Graduate Student Paper Prize for the 2011-2012 school year. She is a PhD student in American Literature at UNM English.

Vincent Basso’s poem a semi-finalist for the Knightville Poetry Prize

MA Literature student Vincent M. Basso’s poem “On the Death of Poets” was a semi-finalist for the Knightville Poetry Prize, and will be forthcoming in the 2012 issue of The New Guard Literary Review.

Suzanne Richardson keeps on publishing and winning awards

Suzanne Richardson's essay "Oh, Niagara!" won the 2012 nonfiction prize at Ohio State University's Literary Magazine, The Journal. The nonfiction contest was judged by Sonya Huber. The write up is here:

http://thejournalmag.org/archives/2045

She also is having her nonfiction "Throw it Up," published in New Ohio Review, Winter 2011 Issue 11, and "Meredith is Missing," in the New Haven Review, June 2012.

Her poems, "The Curse" and "The Cursed," were published in PANK Magazine, May 2012.

Her fiction, "Nouvelle Vague," was published in Front Porch, Spring 2012; "In His Grandfather's House," in High Desert Journal, Summer 2012; and "Yard Dogs," in Southern Humanities Review, forthcoming.

Adam Nunez & Bonnie Arning: MFA publications and awards

Adam Nunez had his poetry published in the Connecticut Review, Fall 2011 and LUMINA, Fall 2010. He also had a review published in Pleiades, Winter 2011. He also published a chap book, with associated reading series: Ghosts and Projectors, Spring 2012. Adam also received 2nd place in The Atlantic's Student Writing Contest, October 2009, the Patricia Clark Smith Scholarship in Creative Writing, Spring 2011, and the Outstanding TA Award, Spring 2011. Adam was the Poetry Co-Editor for BMR, 2010-2011, and will have BA/MD GAship 2012.

Bonnie Arning will publish her poetery, "Lost Body," in Cream City Review, forthcoming fall 2012; and her fiction, "Bodies of Water," in Gargoyle Magazine, forthcoming fall 2012.

Core Writing Teaching Awards

The results are in for the Core Writing Teaching Awards. Our judges had a tough time choosing among some very competitive application packets, but here are the winners:

Outstanding English 101 Sequence: Stephanie Spong

Outstanding English 220 Sequence: Breanna Griego

Outstanding First-Year Instructor: Emilee Howland-Davis

We'll be presenting these at the EGSA Awards Ceremony, Friday May 11th at 4:00pm in the SUB, Lobo A&B. Please come help us celebrate our winners, and all the great teaching that gets done in our program.

O'Donoghue Gregory International Poetry Competition

An international poetry competition run by the Munster Literature Centre in Cork, Ireland, (http://www.munsterlit.ie) is currently open for submissions. Winners will be published in Southword journal which has previously showcased Billy Collins, Sinéad Morrissey, Martín Espada, Greg Delanty, Tess Gallagher, Matthew Sweeney and Brian Turner amongst many other respected literary figures. (http://www.munsterlit.ie/Southword/issues_index.html)

This is a prize for single poem, named in honour of a late Irish poet long associated with the Centre. The Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize will have a first prize of 1,000 Euro (on 5 September 2011 approx. USD 1430 or GBP 875) and publication in Southword Literary Journal. The MLC will subvent travel costs for the winner up to 600 Euro and provide hotel accommodation and meals for three days during the Cork Spring Literary Festival. The author who takes first prize will have the chance to read the winning poem at the Cork Spring Literary Festival in February 2012. There will be a second prize of E500, third prize of E250, and ten runners-up will each have their poems published in Southword and receive Southword’’s standard fee of E30.

The deadline is 18 December 2011 and this year's judge is poet Patrick Cotter. (http://www.patrickcotter.ie )

More information, including submission guidelines, may be found here on our website.

or via our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/odonoghue.poetry.competition

Adam Nunez and Bonnie Arning Altamirano: Poetry contest winners

Congratulations to Adam Nunez and Bonnie Arning Altamirano who won 2nd and 1st place in the “Champion Poet of the Dead” Contest of New Mexico in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Smithsonian Institution Latino Virtual Museum Dia de los Muertos Avatar Event. Adam won $50 for 2nd place and Bonnie won $100. They read two of their poems at the event.

Academy of Poets Prize Winners Announced

Academy of American Poets Prize, 2010 Winners

We are pleased to announce the winners and honorable mentions of the 2010 Academy of American Poets Prize Competition! 39 UNM poets participated in both the grad and undergrad contests. Winners
each receive $75. Thanks to everyone who submitted work!

Dana Levin, Contest Coordinator

Graduate Competition:

Winner: Tommy Archuleta, for "Jack's Creek Soliloquy"
Hon Mention: Erika Sanchez, for "Earthquake"

Judge: Amy Beeder

Undergraduate Competition:

Winner: Katlyn McKinney, for "Water Passing"
Hon Mention: Oakley Merideth, for "Vulgar Latin"

Judge: Lisa Chavez

Transparency Statement:
All submissions were presented to judges with identifying marks removed. The contest coordinator did no pre-screening, ranking or evaluation, added no commentary on submissions, and engaged in no conversation with the judges regarding submissions. For more information on the contest and the Academy of American Poets, see the organization web page.

Academy of American Poets Prize

One Undergraduate and one graduate winner will each win $75

Submission due date: Friday, April 16th in Dana Levin's English Dept mailbox

Guidelines for submission:

1. Submit 1-3 poems
2. Remove your name from the poems
3. Include a cover sheet with:

Your name
titles of the poems you are submitting
Your contact information (email, phone, snail-mail)

Submissions without a cover sheet will not be considered
Winners will be determined by April 30th and contacted soon after

Judges: Amy Beeder, Lisa Chavez, Dana Levin

Writing Contest: 2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest

We're excited to share with you the details of the 2010 Kenyon Review Short Fiction Contest, for writers under thirty. We'd be grateful if you would forward this e-mail to any interested writers you know.

KR will be accepting electronic submissions February 1st through February 28th, 2010, through the Short Fiction Contest page of the KR website. Louise Erdrich will be the final judge. The winning story will be published in The Kenyon Review, and the author will receive a scholarship to the 2010 Kenyon Review Writers Workshop, June 19-26th, in Gambier, Ohio. (Scholarship covers tuition, room and board expenses.) There is no entry fee for submission. Please direct questions to kenyonreview@kenyon.edu.

Here are the full contest details:

Submission Guidelines

• Writers must be 30 years of age or younger at the time of submission.
• Stories must be no more than 1200 words in length.
• Please do not simultaneously submit your contest entry to another magazine or contest.
• The submissions link will be active February 1st to February 28th. All work must be submitted through our electronic system. We cannot accept paper submissions.
• Winners will be announced in the late spring. You will receive an e-mail notifying you of any decisions regarding your work.
• For submissions, we accept the following file formats only:
  • .PDF (Adobe Acrobat)
  • .DOC (Microsoft Word)
  • .RTF (Rich Text Format)
  • .TXT (Microsoft Wordpad and Notepad, Apple TextEdit

The final judge will be Louise Erdrich, winner of the 2009 Kenyon Review Award for Literary Achievement. Erdrich is the acclaimed author of the novels Love Medicine, The Beet Queen, The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse, and The Plague of Doves, as well as many others. In 2009, she published The Red Convertible: Collected and New Stories, 1978-2008.