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A short story set in New Orleans by faculty member Peyton Burgess will appear in Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction From a Small Planet this fall.
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A paper by Cailyn Flynn on David Foster Wallace's This is Water, written for Professor Shelly Taylor's Critical Reading & Writing course, has been accepted for publication at Elephant Journal.
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English Writing alumnus and former faculty member Martin Pousson ’94 was awarded a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship. His former student, Catherine Lacey ‘07, has a burgeoning writing career of her own.
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Martin Pousson, (’93) has been awarded a 2014 NEA Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose. The honor, which includes a $25,000 grant, is in support of “Black Sheep Boy,” a collection of short stories.
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Catherine Lacey ('07) publishes her first novel, Nobody Is Ever Missing, with Farrar Straus, and Giroux, described as "A high-stakes, pitch-black comedy about the search for the dark heart of the self."
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Jonathan Dacula ('13) has been named Coordinator of Regional Team Operations in Greater New Orleans for Teach for America.
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“Of Disaster and Love: John Biguenet’s Rising Water Trilogy," an interview article by Marina Kennedy, was published in Woman Around Town.
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Stewart Sinclair, senior English writing major, has published an essay online at The Millions.
"Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you." —Ford Madox Ford.
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Luke Kummer ('02), world citizen and itinerant journalist has published a memoir, Fun As Hell, with Kindle Singles.