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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) .



2007 Goodnow Award in Poetry
judged by Richard Jones, DePaul University

winner "Sight" by Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis
"'Sight' is a remarkable meditation on birth, vision, and joy. It is also a political poem, in that it honors 'the darkness' in which the human is formed, giving sight to the unborn and its 'particular joy at seeing nothing.' More importantly, it enlightens and rewards the reader, who listens attentively to creation's 'celestial rush' and turns "pulse to picture.' This is a marvelous poem."

Runner up "Archaeoacoustics" by Chad Heltzel
"This poem finds inspiration, design, and ultimately its voice from the idea that unearthed shards of pottery can actually tell the stories of our lives, if we can teach ourselves to listen to these fragments, these broken pieces of clay that, by their very existence, prove that we once upon a time were whole."'

2007 Goodnow Award in Prose
judged by Chris Fink, Beloit College

winner "Highway to Versailles" by Jay Shearer
“Highway to Versailles' is a Technicolor cross-Texas road trip, careening toward accident from the first paragraph ... O’Connor-esque in the way the characters’ frivolity is presented in stark contrast to the grim determinism of the landscape."

Runner up "31.647861, 35.151361" by Josh Bernstein
This is an ambitious, polyphonic narrative about the Arab/Israeli conflict

The winners of the 2007 Other Voices fiction contest and Near South poetry contest have been announced: For Other Voices, Ivan Rodden's story "Lemon Grass" will be published in a forthcoming issue. For Near South, the winning poem is "One-Acts: a Poem" by Snezana Zabic; runner up is "Ode to Grammar" by Jennifer Moore. Near South will publish both of these poems.

Spring 2007

Nnedi Okorafor's second novel, The Shadow Speaker, will be released in October of 2007 by Hyperion Books (Jump at the Sun), and her first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, will be released in Nigeria this year by Kachifo Press.

Mary Biddinger's book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is now available from Steel Toe Books.

Christina Pugh received an individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council for 2007.

Patricia McMillen's first chapbook, Knife Lake Anthology, was published by Puddinghouse Publications (Columbus, OH) in May, 2006. It's a collection of 17 poems inspired by her experiences standing vigil outside Indiana State Prison during executions in 2004-2005. She introduced it to the public in January 2007 in the form of a readers' theatre group reading at Unity Temple, Oak Park. She also has a poem coming out in RHINO 2007, edited by (among others) Jackie White, PhD 2005.

Ivan Rodden/Faute's story "A Thing Enclosed is Not Common" will appear in the anthology Touched by Wonder (Meadowhawk 2007). A chapter from his ongoing project 365 Stories for the Edification of Children, With Additional Stories for Special Occasions, And Morals Applicable for All Occasions, was selected as a finalist for the Calvino Prize (2006) sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Louisville.

Carrie Messenger's story "International Women's Day" will appear in the forthcoming issue of Cream City Review. Her translation of a poem by the Moldovan writer Vasile Girnet will appear in the next issue of Poetry International.





2007 Goodnow Award in Poetry
judged by Richard Jones, DePaul University

winner "Sight" by Anna Marie Craighead-Kintis
"'Sight' is a remarkable meditation on birth, vision, and joy. It is also a political poem, in that it honors 'the darkness' in which the human is formed, giving sight to the unborn and its 'particular joy at seeing nothing.' More importantly, it enlightens and rewards the reader, who listens attentively to creation's 'celestial rush' and turns "pulse to picture.' This is a marvelous poem."

Runner up "Archaeoacoustics" by Chad Heltzel
"This poem finds inspiration, design, and ultimately its voice from the idea that unearthed shards of pottery can actually tell the stories of our lives, if we can teach ourselves to listen to these fragments, these broken pieces of clay that, by their very existence, prove that we once upon a time were whole."'

2007 Goodnow Award in Prose
judged by Chris Fink, Beloit College

winner "Highway to Versailles" by Jay Shearer
“Highway to Versailles' is a Technicolor cross-Texas road trip, careening toward accident from the first paragraph ... O’Connor-esque in the way the characters’ frivolity is presented in stark contrast to the grim determinism of the landscape."

Runner up "31.647861, 35.151361" by Josh Bernstein
This is an ambitious, polyphonic narrative about the Arab/Israeli conflict

The winners of the 2007 Other Voices fiction contest and Near South poetry contest have been announced: For Other Voices, Ivan Rodden's story "Lemon Grass" will be published in a forthcoming issue. For Near South, the winning poem is "One-Acts: a Poem" by Snezana Zabic; runner up is "Ode to Grammar" by Jennifer Moore. Near South will publish both of these poems.

Spring 2007

Nnedi Okorafor's second novel, The Shadow Speaker, will be released in October of 2007 by Hyperion Books (Jump at the Sun), and her first novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, will be released in Nigeria this year by Kachifo Press.

Mary Biddinger's book of poetry, Prairie Fever, is now available from Steel Toe Books.

Christina Pugh received an individual artist fellowship in poetry from the Illinois Arts Council for 2007.

Patricia McMillen's first chapbook, Knife Lake Anthology, was published by Puddinghouse Publications (Columbus, OH) in May, 2006. It's a collection of 17 poems inspired by her experiences standing vigil outside Indiana State Prison during executions in 2004-2005. She introduced it to the public in January 2007 in the form of a readers' theatre group reading at Unity Temple, Oak Park. She also has a poem coming out in RHINO 2007, edited by (among others) Jackie White, PhD 2005.

Ivan Rodden/Faute's story "A Thing Enclosed is Not Common" will appear in the anthology Touched by Wonder (Meadowhawk 2007). A chapter from his ongoing project 365 Stories for the Edification of Children, With Additional Stories for Special Occasions, And Morals Applicable for All Occasions, was selected as a finalist for the Calvino Prize (2006) sponsored by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Louisville.

Carrie Messenger's story "International Women's Day" will appear in the forthcoming issue of Cream City Review. Her translation of a poem by the Moldovan writer Vasile Girnet will appear in the next issue of Poetry International.