A number of awards and honors for UW-Madison writers on this blustery Monday morning:

Our former MFA and Institute Fellow, KEVIN GONZALEZ (pictured) won first place in Narrative's story competition for writers under the age of 30 for his short story Cerromar.

Former Institute Fellow, DANIELLE EVANS' story collection Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self was named one of O Magazine's top ten books of 2010--#4 to be precise.

The Sunday New York Times Book Review has selected the novel Angelology by former undergraduate DANIELLE TRUSSONI and the short story collection Memory Wall by former Institute fellow ANTHONY DOERR as two of its Notable Books of 2010.