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KUDOS: Creative Writing Award Winners and Honorable Mentions

In case you missed it, at last Friday’s reading Connie Hales announced the winners of the 2011 Creative Writing Awards for graduate and undergraduate students in all genres. Here’s a list of winners and honorable mentions:

Creative Nonfiction, judged by Marilyn Abildskov

Undergraduate Winner: “A Boundless Bind” by Sally Brown

Graduate Winner: “Traffic Jam: Lagos, Nigeria” by Carole Firstman

Graduate Mentions: “The Fall” by Ashley Wells, “The Spirit of Consumption” by Andrea Mele, “Crevice Dwellers” by Liza Butler-Aveson, and “Action Potentials” by Brenda Rankin

Fiction, judged by Liza Wieland

Undergraduate Honorable Mentions: “Ripples and Foam” by Grant Dempsey, “Maria” by Heather Ashcroft, and “Girls With Wings” by Blair Olivia Nishkian

Undergraduate Winner: “Foxes Have Homes” by Hannah Thompson

Graduate Honorable Mentions: “Hard” by Rafael Sanchez, “White Bear Lake” by Anders Peterson, and “Growing Season” by Tiffany Crum

Graduate Winner: “Lucky” by Peter Driscoll

Poetry, judged by Philip Levine

Undergraduate Honorable Mentions: “Blown Away” by Hilary Pacheco and “whiteblonde” by Carleigh Takemoto

Undergraduate Winner: “To My Mother” by Sean Patrick Kinneen

Graduate Honorable Mentions: “Debt” by Michelle Brittan, “Garage Sale” by Gabriel Ibarra, and “Insomnia” by Andre Yang

Graduate Winner: “If You Set Your House on Fire” by Megan Baptista Geist

Congratulations to all of our winners and honorable mentions! What a great way to end a great year.

2011
05/10
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SJLA’s Rogue Reading Series in Pictures

Jake Kelly (Poetry) & Kristofer Whited (Fiction)

Ashley Wells (CNF), Rafael Sanchez (Fiction) & Brandi Spaethe (Poetry)

Tiffany Crum (Fiction) & Andrea Mele (CNF)

Jackie Heffron (CNF), Cynthia Guardado (Poetry) & Gavin McCall (Fiction)

Peter Driscoll (Fiction) & Michelle Brittan (Poetry)

All photographs ©2011 Joe Osejo Photography

2011
03/08
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CWAA’s Rogue Poetry and Prose Readings

Do you like diversity? Do you like writers? Would you like to hear diverse readers share their art? Then look no further than Spectrum Art Gallery in the Tower District for this year’s CWAA Rogue performance.

Friday March 4th – 8:45pm
Nancy Hernandez, Erin Alvarez, Burlee Vang, Yinka Reed-NolanSunday March 6th – 7:30pm
Rolando Paez, Michelle Brittan, Gabe Ibarra, Mario Rosado

Wednesday March 9th – 8:45pm
Xai Lee, Rafael Sanchez, Andre Yang, Miguel Jimenez

Saturday March 12th – 5:00pm
Cynthia Guardado, Marisol Baca, Alex Espinoza

We will change your life.
Si Se Puede.

2011
03/01
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SJLA Readings at the Rogue Festival

The San Joaquin Literary Association is at it again, this time at Fresno’s coolest fringe festival.  Please come hear MFA students and members of SJLA read their poetry and prose at the 2011 Rogue Festival.  All readings will be held at the amazing CIty Arts Gallery in the tower district (1475 N. VanNess). Each of four dates (March 4, 5, 6, and 12) features four readers.  Admission is five dollars.  We hope to see you there!

2011
02/27
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KUDOS: 2010 Summer Workshop Edition

Many of our MFA students are headed to prestigious nationwide summer workshops in the next few months, and we’d like to take a moment to recognize their accomplishment in being accepted, and to wish them luck. Way to represent the Fresno State MFA Program!

Tin House Summer Writers Workshop, Portland, OR

We’re proud to recognize the following SEVEN students who were accepted to Tin House this summer: fiction writer Rafael Sanchez, poet Jake Kelly, fiction writer Kristofer Whited, poet Andre Yang, fiction writer Tiffany Crum, poet Michelle Brittan, and recent fiction graduate Elizabeth Martin. That’s quite a formidable contingency– look out, Portland!

Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Sewanee, TN

Fiction writer Tiffany Crum has also been accepted to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in Sewanee, TN. Congratulations, Tiffany!

Voices of Our Nation Writing Workshop, San Francisco, CA

Congratulations to fiction student Miguel Jimenez, who has been accepted to the Advanced Writing Workshop offered by the VONA Writers Workshop. Congratulations are also in order for poet Cynthia Guardado, who was also accepted to VONA this summer. Way to go, Miguel and Cynthia!

Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, Port Townsend, WA 

And congratulations again to Cynthia Guardado for also being accepted to the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference in Port Townsend, WA! 

Congratulations to our intrepid summer workshop crew, and please keep an eye on the blog for more updates about the summer writing opportunities our students are exploring!

2010
05/04
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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.

2010
02/17
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