Recent news
Fall 2009
Tadd Adcox's work appeared in or is forthcoming from Barrelhouse, Bateau, The Literary Review, Keyhole Digest, Decameron, Another Chicago Magazine, and the delinquent. He was mentioned as a "Writer to Watch," in the Chicago Tribune. He is the founder and editor in chief of Artifice Magazine; Issue One will be released in February.
M. Shelly Conner's article examining the roles of women in contemporary African American motorcycle clubs appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of the International Journal of Motorcycle Studies. She will present a paper on African American Women, Trauma and Memory at the National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) Conference November 13 in Atlanta, GA.
Colby Cuppernull's short story "At the End of the Day" was the second place winner of the James Jones Short Story Award, part of the Illinois Emerging Writers Competition.
Andrew Farkas's "A Rogue Department Course Offering" appeared in the July 2009 issue of Squid Quarterly. "On the Road to the Great City" appeared in the September 2009 issue of Spring Gun. "14 July: Bastille Day" (a collaboration with Megan Milks) appeared in the October 2009 issue of Sidebrow. "Police Procedural" will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Artifice Magazine. "I Don't Know Why" will appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Quarter After Eight.
Jenn Hawe's "A Meal in Men of Letters" appeared in [out of nothing] no. 2.
Carrie Messenger's "Edgewater" appeared in this fall's issue of Crab Orchard Review, and "The Poetess Writes Unanswered Letters" appeared in last spring's Redivider.
Megan Milks' short story "Slug" was selected for the anthology The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Her "14 July: Bastille Day," a collaboration with Andrew Farkas, appeared in the October 2009 issue of Sidebrow. Her short story "Kill Marguerite" was published as a chapbook through Another New Calligraphy Press, and her story "Tomato Heart" appeared in the first issue of The Wild. A prose piece called "My Father and I Were Bent Groundward" will appear in Thirty Under Thirty, an anthology of emerging innovative writers to be released in 2010.
Roxanne Pilat's poem "on swimming" appeared in the Fall/Winter 2009 volume of The Hummingbird Review. Her essay, "The Green Room", appeared in the Fall 2009 issue of Dominican University Magazine.
Ivan Rodden's fiction chapbook This is How We Will Live, Now That We Are Free will be published by RockSaw Press in 2010. The title story of this collection was named second and published in the 2009 Crucible fiction contest. His dissertation received Honorable Mention in the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest and the story "Natalie Touches Upon the World" was short-listed for the Vaike and Erich Rannu Fund for Writers of Speculative Literature. Flash fiction publications include "Something I Do While I Wait For" and "Expectation" in Harpur Palate, "Posted With Glue, Then Removed Overnight" in elimae, "Along the Lines of Good Advice" in Buffalo Carp, "The Economic Advancement of the Lower Classes on the Shoulders of Dreamers" in Feathertale, "1995" in One-Page Stories, and "Gordon and His Amazing Dog Boncer" in The Blotter Magazine. He presented a staged reading of his theatrical adaptation of Cris Mazza's novel Disability, a fully produced version of Ralph Lombreglia's "Museum of Love" at the City Lit Theater's Art of Adaptation Festival, and "The Dog Show" was performed at the Stage Left Theatre's Nine2Nine Showcase. His lyrics for "The Way to Hell" (music by Seth Boustead) were performed for The Chicago AIDS Quilt Songbook concert fundraiser.
Sara Tracey's chapbook, Flood Year was published by dancing girl press in October, 2009. Her poem "And After This" appeared in the June 2009 issue of Anti-. "Advice from a Hotel Maid" appeared in the August 2009 issue of After Hours, and her poems "Summer of Hammers and Whiskey," "Lament with Gravel Roads," "Periwinkle," and "Tell Me About Your Tattoos" will appear in the December 2009 issue of Arsenic Lobster.
Faculty news:
The opening chapter of Eugene Wildman's novel-in-progress, Next Time You See Me , appeared in ACM # 49.
Christopher Grimes’ story “The Public Sentence” appears in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing.
The title story from Cris Mazza’s story collection, Trickle-Down Timeline, appeared in The &NOW Awards: The Best Innovative Writing. Excerpts from her forthcoming novel Various Men Who Knew Us as Girls, appeared in Knock, Word Riot, Beloit Fiction Journal, Western Humanities Review, and Warwick Review (UK).
Christina Pugh's poem "Stain" appeared in Poetry Northwest (Fall 2009).
Three other poems are forthcoming in the Fall/Winter 2009 issue of
TriQuarterly. Another poem, "Inflection" (which originally appeared in
The Atlantic), is forthcoming in the anthology Poetry Calendar 2010
(Alhambra Press, Brussels). "Stalwarts," Pugh's review of new books by Marilyn Hacker and Heather McHugh, is forthcoming in the December 2009 issue of Poetry. Her
creative nonfiction essay, "An Elegy for Dancing," is also forthcoming in
January 2010 in the anthology My Life at the Gym (SUNY Press).
Anne Winters' four sonnets on Rembrandt, "Works on Paper," appeared in January 2009 in Poetry Magazine; "Lady and Knight" appeared in the October Issue of Granta.
She served as Chair of the Pulitzer Prize Jury for Poetry for 2008 and gave various readings this fall, including one which was
the Keynote Address at Wheaton College's Conference on Literature: Cities.
Fall 2008
Garrett Brown’s first book, Manna Sifting, won the 2009 Liam Rector First Book Prize from Briery Creek Press. The prize is $1000, publication, copies of the book, broadside of the title poem, and a reading at Longwood University. The book is due out in March.
Andrew Farkas’ first book, Self-Titled Debut (collection of fictions), won the Subito Press contest. His book will be published (likely in 2009), details TBA.
Andrew Farkas’ fictions "The Ballad of Ailin' Alan Smithee" will appear in Copper Nickel; "A Sky Party" will appear in The Cincinnati Review; "Identity Theft" will appear in The Brooklyn Rail; and "Timbuktu," in Emprise Review.
Unknown Epidemic, a creative nonfiction piece by Donna Pecore
is in Volume 10 of the South Loop Review.
Ivan Rodden/Faute's story, "After This, Everything Else is Going," appeared in M Review and "Circa Thus" in The Binnacle Ultra-Short Competition. His one-act play, The Darling Children, had its world premiere at The New York International Fringe Festival and a ten-minute play, The Hunting Party, premiered at the North Park Playwright Festival (San Diego). City Lit Theater (Chicago) sponsored a staged reading of his adaptation of Riders of the Purple Sage.
A chapter of Maggie Anderson’s book-in-progress, No Stars in Jefferson Park , will be published in Southern California Review in 2009.
spring 2008
Snezana Zabic was one of ten recipients of the 2007 Chicago Consular Corps Scholarship. Her story "Meet Satan" will appear in Copper Nickel in January 2008, and her poem "American Studies Map #8: Difference in America 1970" is forthcoming in Rhino. A selection of her poems will also appear in the online journal Little Red Leaves.
Carrie Messenger has stories forthcoming in Witness and The Jabberwock Review. Her essay about the Moldovan rock band Zdob si Zdub will appear in Barrelhouse, and Romanian translations are forthcoming in Asheville Poetry Review, Circumference, Rhino, and Beloit Poetry Journal.
Rone Shavers was awarded residencies to the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT and the Ragdale Arts Foundation in Lake Forest, IL.
Restoration, a book of poems by Christina Pugh, is forthcoming from TriQuarterly Books (Northwestern University Press).
Chad Heltzel has poems "Of Stone" forthcoming in Blue Unicorn and "Building a Bonfire" in the anthology In Other Words.
Ivan Rodden/Faute's adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher" was the prizewinner in the City Lit Theater Art of Adaptation Festival; his ten-minute play a "Love Story for Two Players/Four Personalities" appeared in Rockhurst Review.His story "Little Egypt" will appear in The Louisville Review. Several shorts are forthcoming or have appeared as well including: "Forget Not All That Has Been Accomplished" in The Cupboard Pamphlet; "Smashing, Just Smashing" as a 'Staccato Microfiction' piece in The Blotter Magazine; "Let Me Be Alone With My Thoughts, Dear One" in Aquapolis Literary Journal; "Airstream" appeared in the online journal 971 MENU and "Advertising" in the online experiment 55 Words. Also, an excerpt from his novel Aeglaca appeared in The Orphan Leaf Review(UK) .
