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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-10671412702978031252013-12-02T10:21:00.000-06:002013-12-02T10:21:39.087-06:00<i>Slate</i> named former fellow <b>Dan O'Brien</b>'s <i>War Reporter</i> one of the best books of 2013. Congrats, Dan! Check out the other picks <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/11/slate_staff_picks_for_best_books_of_2013.html" target="_blank">here</a> for some holiday reading.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-45482594828871824812013-12-02T10:14:00.003-06:002013-12-02T10:16:13.384-06:00<a href="http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/behind-the-cover-story-sara-corbett-on-collaborating-with-amanda-lindhout-to-tell-a-harrowing-tale/?_r=1" target="_blank">Check out</a> this <i>New York Times</i> feature about former fiction fellow <b>Sara Corbett</b>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-73036773382740447432013-12-02T10:13:00.002-06:002013-12-02T10:13:54.286-06:00UW-Madison grad <b>Jill Soloway</b> was recently nominated for a Best First Screenplay Independent Spirit Award for her film <i>Afternoon Delight</i>. Congrats, Jill!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-4903429152025105142013-11-18T10:36:00.003-06:002013-11-18T10:36:51.725-06:00<div class="_6nm userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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UW alum <b>Patrick Somerville</b> and MFA alum <b>Lauren Groff</b> are both on the long list for the <a href="http://www.impacdublinaward.ie/nominees/" target="_blank">2013 Dublin Literary Award</a> for their novels! Congrats!</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-57046417462858366502013-11-18T10:35:00.004-06:002013-11-18T10:35:54.993-06:00Check out an interview with former fellow and filmmaker Laleh Khadivi in the <i>International New York Times</i> <a href="http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/08/five-questions-for-author-and-filmmaker-laleh-khadivi/?_r=1" target="_blank">here</a>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-6871732310962882312013-11-18T10:34:00.000-06:002013-11-18T10:34:31.951-06:00<b>Dan O'Brien</b>'s <i>War Reporter</i> is receiving some serious love from the UK. First, it was shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Now, it won the 2013 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize! Congrats, Dan!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-56584896080944037412013-11-18T10:33:00.001-06:002013-11-18T10:33:29.963-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Look what came in the mail: <i>jubilat 24</i>! Featuring <span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">poems by MFA alums <b>Oliver Bendorf</b>, <b>Josh Kalscheur</b>, <b>Rita Mae Reese</b>, UW-Plattville prof <b>Kara Candito</b>, translations of more poems by Circe Maia by <b>Jesse Lee Kercheval</b>! </span></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-77699706615209182222013-11-18T10:23:00.000-06:002013-11-18T10:23:16.342-06:00For all the foodies out there, alum <b>Michelle Wildgen</b>'s new novel <i>Bread and Butter</i> will be out in February. Pre-order <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Bread-Butter-Michelle-Wildgen/dp/0385537433/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1384458371&sr=1-1&keywords=bread+and+butter+wildgen" target="_blank">here</a>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-63947100862100091662013-11-18T10:21:00.001-06:002013-11-18T10:21:58.259-06:00Check out former fellow <b>Rebecca Hazelton</b>'s new chapbook <i>Bad Star</i> <a href="http://yesyesbooks.com/store/book/0100020/?fb_action_ids=10151996712195033&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map={%2210151996712195033%22%3A1414609975438042}&action_type_map={%2210151996712195033%22%3A%22og.likes%22}&action_ref_map=[]" target="_blank">here</a>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-56582300886623616342013-11-18T10:20:00.001-06:002013-11-18T10:20:56.952-06:00<div class="_6nm userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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MFA fiction alum <b>Marian Palaia</b>'s novel <i>The Given World</i> will be published by Simon and Schuster in Spring 2015! Congratulations, Marian!</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-64690977154264369992013-11-18T10:18:00.002-06:002013-11-18T10:18:25.760-06:00Looking for a residency? Look no further than Grin City Collective. More info <a href="http://grincitycollective.org/residency.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-46095678310582758162013-11-18T10:17:00.001-06:002013-11-18T10:17:45.362-06:00<div class="_6nm userContentWrapper" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}">
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MFA alum <a href="http://blog.pshares.org/index.php/one-year-in-writing-the-novel-dean-bakopoulous/" target="_blank"><b>Dean Bakopoulos</b></a> on novel writing!</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-22023364677530397282013-11-11T14:18:00.001-06:002013-11-11T14:20:37.729-06:00Love your department? Come celebrate it!<br />
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UW Creative Writing is celebrating its 35th anniversary in style at the Overture Center on November 14 at 8 p.m. Featuring readings from Jesse Lee Kercheval, who will read
from her novel <i>My Life as a Silent Movie</i>, and Professor Amaud Jamaul
Johnson, who will read from his poetry collection <i>Darktown Follies</i>, it's a celebration not to miss.<br />
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Additional celebratory events will include a reading by the current
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing fellows at the Overture Center
on April 10, 2014.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-10630342683729225792013-11-11T14:09:00.002-06:002013-11-11T14:09:37.584-06:00Former fellow <b>Rebecca Hazelton</b> is returning to Madison for the final Monsters of Poetry reading of the year! Check out the event <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/341498205868488/" target="_blank">here </a>and be sure to attend on December 6.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-16326606223677439162013-11-11T14:08:00.003-06:002013-11-11T14:08:33.405-06:00<a href="http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2013/11/11/bridging-gap-poetry-art-es/" target="_blank">Check out</a> <i>The Badger Herald</i>'s review of last week's Bridge Reading!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-29736235981720048662013-11-04T10:16:00.004-06:002013-11-04T10:16:31.098-06:00A new interview with <b>Pamela Erens</b> by current MFA <b>Rowan Hisayo Buchanan</b> up at Devil's Lake! Check it out <a href="http://english.wisc.edu/devilslake/features/interview_erens.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-88290362712323747392013-11-04T10:15:00.005-06:002013-11-04T10:15:41.811-06:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"type":45,"tn":"*G"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">A sneak peek at MFA alum Nick Lantz's third book of poetry! Out soon from Graywolf!</span></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-50402138165554018822013-11-04T10:15:00.000-06:002013-11-04T10:15:02.829-06:00<a href="http://www.sarabandebooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/catalog.pdf" target="_blank">Check out</a> former fellow and current program coordinator <b>Sean Bishop</b>'s book, <i>The Night We’re Not Sleeping In</i>, winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry in the new Sarabande catalogue!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-28902227327653092532013-11-04T10:13:00.000-06:002013-11-04T10:13:11.805-06:00Do you write? How about experimentally? If so, you have two weeks to submit your best work to the yearly anthology <i>Best American Experimental Writing</i>, curated by UW poets <b>Seth Abramson </b>and <b>Jesse Damiani</b>! More info <a href="http://www.omnidawn.com/bax/" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-73008595486742743962013-11-04T10:07:00.003-06:002013-11-04T10:07:54.801-06:00UW alum<b> David Ebenbach</b>'s poem "Gutters" is in the Washington Post! Check it out <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/11/01/pm-update-turning-cooler-this-weekend-especially-sunday/" target="_blank">here </a>after the DC-area weather update.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-60857794919837072972013-10-28T10:17:00.000-05:002013-10-28T10:19:29.834-05:00<br />
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Be sure to come to the Bridge Poetry Reading at the Chazan on November 7! Readings from Wisconsin poets Fabu, Cherene Sherrard, William Stobb, Gabrielle Daniels, Jennifer
Morales, Joel Friedrich, Darian Wilson, Richard Roe, Rita Mae Reese,
and Katrin Talbot with poems written in response to the fall exhibition,
Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey. More info <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/778561212169938/?ref=3&ref_newsfeed_story_type=regular" target="_blank">here</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-27427754061719821382013-10-28T10:15:00.003-05:002013-10-28T10:15:56.756-05:00Congrats to <b>Lauren Groff</b> for receiving the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/ca-literary-affairs-idUSnPnLA1zLhY+165+PRN20131025" target="_blank">Medici Book Club Prize</a> for her novel <i>Arcadia</i>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-9196138071128700172013-10-14T10:51:00.004-05:002013-10-14T10:51:36.970-05:00Congratulations to recent MFA poet <b>Mark Anthony Cayanan</b> whose collection <i>Except You Entrall Me</i> will be published by the University of Philippines Press in December 2013!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3527579970924421424.post-39646112921626396732013-10-14T10:50:00.002-05:002013-10-14T10:50:23.269-05:00Wisconsin Book Festival is beginning this Thursday! Be sure to see UW's <b>Emma Straub</b> and <b>Michelle Wildgen</b> make us laugh during their humor writing showcase on Saturday at 8:30 p.m. in Central Library. More info <a href="http://www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/michelle-wildgens-humor-writing-showcase" target="_blank">here</a>!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0