Adam Haslett Reads This Thursday!

ADAM HASLETT
presented by
The Program in Creative Writing
and The Madison Review

THIS THURSDAY
April 28th, 7:00 PM

The Gates of Heaven
302 East Gorham

Haslett will also give a Q&A for all interested parties from 4-5:00 pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.

The reading will be followed by a Madison Review release party at Brocach Irish Pub (7 West Main St.), and all are invited to attend.

ADAM HASLETT is the author of a collection of short stories, You are Not a Stranger Here (a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize) and a novel, Union Atlantic. His book have been translated into eighteen languages, and he has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Fine Arts Work Center. He has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and at Columbia University.

The Madison Review's holiday release party will be celebrated with a reading by the novelist JANE HAMILTON this Saturday December 18 at 8:00 in the Madison Overture Center (201 State Street). A book signing and party ($5.00 suggested donation) will be held following the reading right across the street at The Orpheum Theater. This is the last reading and creative writing event of the semester--we hope to see a big, celebratory turnout.

It's official. Wisconsin's own Jane Hamilton will be reading at THE MADISON REVIEW's celebration of its Fall/Winter 2010 issue on December 18.

The reading begins at 8pm at the Overture Center for the Arts at 201 State Street. It's followed by an after-party at the Orpheum at 216 State. There's a $5.00 cover at the party.

Much more information at The Madison Review's facebook page.

Good News Round-up

Good news has been coming at a fast pace and I've fallen behind on posting it all. Here's what I've got to date:


First, congratulations to former Institute fiction fellow, Susanna Daniel, whose forthcoming book Stiltsville has been chosen by Barnes & Noble for its Discover New Writers program.

James Crews (MFA poetry) has a poem up in Booth.

Current Fellow Michael Sheehan has a story in the current print issue of Conjunctions. Entitled "Jean Takes a Moment to Respond," this was the story Michael submitted in support of his fellowship application. The story Michael read at his fellow's reading, "The Horror," was also accepted by Conjunctions and will appear in a later issue.

Former Institute fiction fellow Anthony Doerr breezed in late last Friday and left at dawn on Sunday--but on Saturday we kept him busy every minute. He had lunch with MFAs, met with Fellows, dined with the good folks of The Madison Review, and gave a fantastic reading of a new story at Brochach's Pub--if you were there, you know why I chose the picture of Tony with a big fish. As usual, standing room only.

And speaking of the reading at Brochach's, it was in honor of The Madison Review's 30th anniversary. Happy birthday to a great literary review run exclusively by its undergraduate staffers.

Finally, I recently caught up with former Institute poetry fellow Eric Burger whose good news includes work in current issues of Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, and Phoebe; a Poem of the Week on the Missouri Review's website (the week being that of 4-13-10); his Ph.D in lit and creative writing (old news, actually, since he acquired it in 2006); and last but hardly least, his adorable little daughter June.

Please write to me if I've forgotten your news or if you have new news--or old news we missed.

Matt Athanasiou's Short Story in New Anthology

Matt Athanasiou, former creative writing major and Madison Review "boyfriend," has a story, "Gretal and then Hansel" coming out in the forthcoming anthology, Frightening Fables and Freaky Fairy Tales. Way to go, Matt.

The Madison Review: Fall 2009

Here's a sneak preview of the forthcoming issue of The Madison Review, our national, award-winning literary magazine run by our undergraduates. Congrats to the staff and to faculty advisor Ron Kuka.