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Mary Biddinger 's book of poetry, Prairie Fever, was published in Spring 2007 by Steel Toe Books. She has recently had poems appear in Harpur Palate, Salt Hill, and Wicked Alice, and won a $5,000 Individual Creativity Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council.
Philip Brady's Philip Brady's book of creative non-fiction, By Heart: Reflections of a Rust Belt Bard, will be available from the University of Tennessee Press Fall 2008. He has been named the 2008 winner of the Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Ohioana Poetry Award, given to an author whose body of work has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to poetry, His essay, "This is Heyen Speaking," has been named as a "Notable Essay of the Year" by Best American Essays. His book of poems, Fathom, was published in 2007 from Word Press.
Michael Dumanis won the
won the Juniper Prize for Poetry
from the University of Massachusetts Press for his first collection of poems,
My Soviet Union,
published in 2007. Mike Geither received a 2005 Individual Artist Fellowship in Playwriting from the Ohio Arts Council. His play, "Stars Fell All Night," had a staged reading in the Bay Area Playwrights Festival in August 2005, and was performed at Cleveland Playhouse. His play, "Living Tall," was performed in March 2008 at Cleveland Public Theater.
Robert Miltner presented a paper, "'Loving Rivers: Surface and Depth in Raymond Carver's River Poems and Stories," at the Southern Humanities Council Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, February 2. On February 3, with the All Nations Press panel, he read from his forthcoming collection of prose poems, Split Level.
Varley O'Connor's book, The Cure, was published in 2007 by Bellevue Literary Press.
Craig Paulenich's book of poetry Drift of the Hunt was published by Nobodaddies Press, Sacramento, CA, in August 2006.
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Alyssa Berthiaume won The University of Akron Women’s Studies 2008 Poetry Contest.
Kelly Bancroft's essay "Boob Suit" recently appeared in
JMWW and
her
essay "Tornado" appeared in
Whiskey Island, both 2007. Ed Buchanan, Rick Strong, Frank DePoole, Sara Tracey, & Jason Venner presented workshops at the November 2007 Winter Wheat Conference at Bowling Green State University.
Wayne Elliott presented a
paper, "Knights, Dykes, Damsels, and Fags: Gender Roles and Normative Pressures
in Neomedieval Films," at the
43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University
Virginia Konchan's poetry,
fiction and reviews have either recently appeared or are forthcoming in the
Mid-American Review, Babel Fruit, Asphasia: A Journal of Philosophy and
Literature, Whiskey Island Magazine, and Muse. She recently returned
from studying as a John Woods scholar in the Prague Summer Program, where her
essay on modern Czech literature was a runner-up for the Ludvik Vaculik Award. Jeremy Sayers His short story, “Consequences,” was published in February 2008 by Cedar Hill Press. It will also be available on-line as a podcast, and his short story, “Pocheen,” was published in YACK 2007.
Karen Schubert's poem
"The Day She Almost Didn't Die" was published in
The Broome Review, Spring 2008 and "Two Dancers on a Stage" was
published in
Sin Fronteras. Her poems "Fire" and "I am restless as the end of summer" are in
the December 2007 issue of
Lunarosity, "Talking to Your Daughter About Lying"
is in issue 5 of
Cartographer Electric,
"After 'The Death of Chatterton'" is in Pacific Review 2007-2008,
"Men With Good Names" is in issue one
of
Storyscape, and
"After Dylan Thomas" was published in
Sea Stories:
Hibernal 2008. Her chapbook, The Geography of Lost Houses, won 2nd
place and has been published by Pudding House. Laurin Wolf has had a poem published in the 2007 issue of Two Review. |
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