KUDOS: Karen Sikola
Karen Sikola (MFA in Creative Nonfiction graduate) has accepted a position as Associate Editor at National Geographic Learning. HUGE congratulations, Karen! What an amazing accomplishment!
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KUDOS: Karen Sikola
MFA graduate Karen Sikola’s chapbook, Riding the Green Line, a collection of shorts originally published on TrainWrite, has just been released by Walleyed Press as a chap e-book. You can download the book here.
Way to go, Karen!
Sikola’s Green Line is a series consisting of blistering little bits of prose. Upon absorption of the Preface, the reader will find themselves submerged in the beauty of the author’s language, and the lessons buried within each of the selections.
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
MFA nonfiction grad, Karen Sikola’s flash fiction piece, “Notes on a Marriage,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Specter Literary Magazine. You can read it here: http://www.spectermagazine.com/lit/prose/sikola
Congratulations, Karen!
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
I’m happy to tell you that “Extraction from Lackey Place,” an essay from Karen’s thesis, has been published in Pure Slush‘s first print anthology, now available to order.
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/pure-slush-volume-1-slut/18690926
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
I’m happy to tell you that MFA nonfiction graduate, Karen Sikola, has a book review up on the Ploughsares website. Check it out here: http://word.emerson.edu/ploughshares/2011/11/22/aftermath/
Congratulations, Karen!
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
Fresno State MFA grad, Karen Sikola, has three pieces forthcoming in various journals: “Choosing Mangoes” in Pure Slush, “In the Key of F Major” in Used Furniture Review, and some new nano fiction–”Notes on a Marriage”–in Specter Literary Magazine.
Congratulations, Karen!
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
Karen Sikola’s new nonfiction piece, “Raw Sugar” is live
at Dark Chaos and another one, “Waiting in Line for Hot Chocolate” will appear in
the April issue of Negative Suck. Way to go, Karen!
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
Recent graduate Karen Sikola has done it again! Karen’s newest essay has found a home on the uber-cool web-zine, Fwriction. Check it out here. Way to go, Karen!
KUDOS: Karen Sikola
Friends, an essay by recent graduate Karen Sikola has recently been published by Monkeybicycle, an online and print journal. Check out Karen’s essay, “The Moral of This Story”, here. Congratulations, Karen!
KUDOS: February 2010
It’s been a busy month for the MFA Program! We’re smack in the middle of an exciting hiring process for a new Fiction faculty member and the Spring Reading Series is in full gear. This week, we’re pleased to welcome essayist and Director of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, John D’Agata, whose new book, About a Mountain just hit shelves.
But before we get too far ahead of ourselves, let’s take a moment to celebrate some great news for our students and faculty…
The Day After: My Atomic Angst
Creative Nonfiction professor Steven Church‘s new new book (remember, Theoretical Killings: Essays and Accidents just came out a couple of months ago) was just released from Soft Skull Press. The man’s on fire. Congrats, Steven!
The Acentos Review
Fiction student Rafael Sanchez‘s story “Ambivalencia” was just accept for publication by The Acentos Review, a fine online literary journal that’s been around for a few years now. Hearty congrats to Rafael!
Safe From the Neighbors
Our great friend and former Program Director, Steve Yarbrough‘s new novel, Safe From the Neighbors, has been reviewed in the Washington Post! Congratulations, Steve!
MFA Grad Lands Job in D.C.
Recent Creative Nonfiction MFA grad Karen Sikola just accepted a two-month position as a Scholar Relations Advisor for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council in Washington, D.C. Way to go, Karen!
New York Times piece on Here, Bullet
Poetry professor Brian Turner‘s collection Here, Bullet was spotlighted in a recent New York Times piece. Congratulations, Brian!
The Pinch
Creative Nonfiction student Sarah Fawn Montgomery‘s essay “Death: An Encyclopedia Account of Ritual and Remembrance” has been accepted for publication by The Pinch for their fall 2010 issue.
TIME YOU LET ME IN: 25 POETS UNDER 25
TIME YOU LET ME IN: 25 POETS UNDER 25 is a wonderful new collection of poems put together by Naomi Shihab Nye. The best part is that the volume includes poems by our own students, Michelle Brittain and Jocelyn Stott. Congratulations to Michelle and Jocelyn!
Kill Screen
Recent Creative Nonfiction graduate Josh Geist‘s essay “King of the Ogres” has been picked up by a new magazine, Kill Screen, which is setting out to publish serious writing about gaming.
