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Faculty & Student News

Joanna Robinson, MFA student, has had her lyric essay, "Mars" selected for publication in an upcoming issue of The Southern Review .
Joy Gaines-Friedler's first book of poems, Like Vapor, has been published by Mayapple Press.
Valerie Due, MFA student, has had her essay "The Skinning Board" selected as the winner of the Writers at Work nonfiction fellowship competition, which includes prize money, publication in Quarterly West, a featured reading at the Writers at Work Conference, full tuition for the conference, free housing, and a manuscript consultation with a visiting writer or agent while at the conference. Abigail Thomas, the judge of the contest, had this to say about Due's piece: "I love the emotional restraint coupled with the ravishing prose of the piece. It serves so perfectly the young narrator whose initiation into the harsh realities of life--and death--on a farm is being presented here."
Peter Campion's essay on poetry and politics is now featured on Poetry Daily.  He won a Pushcart Prize for his poem, "Just Now."
Robert Root's The Nonfictionist's Guide: On Reading and Writing Creative Nonfiction will be published in paperback edition in August 2008 by Rowman and Littlefield.

Stephen Haven's new book The River Lock: One Boy's Life Along the Mohawk has been published by The University of Syracuse Press.

Angie Estes has had three of her poems translated and published in the recent Russian anthology Contemporary Poetry in the United States: A Bilingual English-Cyrillic Edition. New poems also appear in the Spring 2008 issue of FIELD. Her lyric essay, "Want," was just published in the anthology Every Passing Breath: Contemporary Poets Respond to the Psalms.

Amy Campbell, Incoming MFA student, was a finalist for the Hunger Mountain Creative Nonfiction Prize for her piece, "A World Away."

Timothy West, Incoming MFA student, has had his poem "To My Daughter on a Workday" selected to be featured on an RTA bus card in Cleveland, Ohio for the annual Moving Minds: The Verse and Vision Project.

2008 Summer Residency Schedule of Events
The 2008 Summer Residency will run from July 13 through July 26. The schedule below is subject to change.
Sunday, July 13
12:00-4:00 PM Student Housing Check-In
1:00-3:00 PM MFA Faculty Meeting (Residency Discussion)
3:00-4:30 PM New Student Orientation
3:30-4:30 PM Student Activities Committee Meeting
4:30-5:30 PM All Student Reception, Student Reading Sign-Up Sheet
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
6:30-7:00 PM

Campus Tour

7:00 PM Opening Welcome
     
Monday, July 14
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
8:30 AM New Student & Faculty Photo ID Session
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM

Craft Seminar: Jill Christman, Peter Campion, and Sonya Huber

Truth and Its Consequences: Poetry and Creative Nonfiction

5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Marilyn Chin, Poetry
     
Tuesday, July 15
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Marilyn Chin
3:00-5:00 PM Student ANGEL Orientation (All new students are required to attend)
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: William Kittredge, Creative Nonfiction
     
Wednesday, July 16
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: William Kittredge
2:30-4:30 PM Faculty ANGEL Orientation I (All faculty are required to attend)
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Debra Marquart, Creative Nonfiction
     
Thursday, July 17
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Debra Marquart
3:00-4:00 PM Student ANGEL Orientation: Netiquette Guidelines and Online Expectations (All new students are required to attend; current students are welcome)
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Ruth Schwartz, Poetry; Sonya Huber & Bob Cowser, Creative Nonfiction
     
Friday, July 18
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM

Craft Seminar: Bob Cowser, Jr. and Ruth Schwartz

Immersion Writing

5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Angie Estes & Peter Campion, Poetry, and Jill Christman, Creative Nonfiction
     
Saturday, July 19
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Publishing Panel: Autumn House Press & The Fourth River
12:00-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM - ? Horseshoe/Highway Expeditions
     
Sunday, July 20
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
11:30 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-5:30 PM Intensive Writing Session
3:30-5:30 PM Faculty Meeting (Non-Residential Semester Discussion)
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Student Reading
     
Monday, July 21
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Angie Estes & Kathy Winograd, Poetry, and Robert Root , Creative Nonfiction
2:30-4:30 PM Faculty ANGEL Discussion with Kathy Winograd
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Kevin Young, Poetry
     
Tuesday, July 22
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Kevin Young
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Kathryn Winograd, Poetry, and Bob Root, Creative Nonfiction
     
Wednesday, July 23
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Michael Salinger on the Open-Mic and Public Reading Experience
2:30-4:00 PM Student Reading
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: David Wojahn, Poetry
     
Thursday, July 24
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: David Wojahn
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Floyd Skloot, Creative Nonfiction
     
Friday, July 25
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
9:00-11:45 AM Writing Workshop
11:45 AM-1:00 PM Lunch
1:00-2:30 PM Craft Seminar: Floyd Skloot
5:30-6:30 PM Dinner
7:00 PM Reading: Joe Mackall, Creative Nonfiction, and Steve Haven, Poetry
     
Saturday, July 26
7:30-8:45 AM Continental Breakfast (On-Campus Housing Only)
11:00 AM Check-Out