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Awards and Publications: Current Students

  • The June 2013 edition of The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature will feature Ben Shields's story, "Ren Threw Things from Trucks."
  • Carrie Chappell reviewed Lauren Berry's book of poems, The Lifting Dress online at The Iowa Review.
  • "He Had Vigor," a short story by Ben Shields, will appear in Fiction Southeast.
  • Daniel Morales is a new blog contributor for Ploughshares literary magazine.
  • Kristina Robinson's poem, "Diaspora: Breakfast with Mahmoud Darwish" in The Baffler, No.22.
  • "'Lisbeth and Sidney," an essay by Guy Choate, is in the January 2013 issue of Trop.
  • Poetry student, Lauren Capone, has poems in the Spring 2012 issue of Timber.
  • Carrie Chappell has six new poems up in the November 2012 issue of Thrush Poetry Journal.
  • Kat Stromquist has won second prize and $$$ for her poem "Known Knowns and Known Unknowns" in the Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest's regional division.
  • Fiction student, Kiki Whang, won the 2012 Enizagam Literary Award for Fiction.
  • Check the fall 2012 issue of Threepenny Review, and you'll find a piece by fiction student Daniel Morales in the Table Talk section.
  • Congratulations to Lindsay Allen, who has been awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. Lindsay will graduate in May with an MFA in fiction, and, in October, her Fulbright will send her to teach English in Vietnam for the 2012-13 school year.
  • The CWW walked away with 2 of the 3 graduate writing prizes at the 2012 Gulf Coast Association of Creative Writing Teachers Conference. Congratulations to Coleen Muir for her winning short story, "Suffer", and to Josie Scanlan for her prize essay, "Fraser Fir."
  • A review of Ashley Butler's memoir, Dear Sound of Footstep, written by CWW poet,Carrie Chapell, is up at Buried Letter Press.
  • Maurice Ruffins was named a top ten finalist in the 2012 Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest, judged by Amy Hempel.
  • Congratulations to Lindsay Allen, whose short story, "We Are What We Have Lost," was a Top Ten Finalist in Narrative Magazine's 30 Below Story Contest.
  • The South Carolina Review has accepted Maurice Ruffins's "The Pie Man."
  • Pank Magazinerecently published, "MuddyEstuary.com:Women's Forum Topic: Normal Relationships," fiction by J.R. Ramakrishnan.
  • Lindsay Allen's short story,"Resonance," has been accepted for the spring 2012 issue of The Briar Cliff Review.
  • The Appalachee Review has accepted Maurice Ruffin's short story, "Mercury Forges" and an essay, "Cheating the Muse."
  • Erin Graul's essay, "Designing a Golden Rant," will be published in the spring issue of Superstition Review.
  • Cate Root has a couple of nonfiction pieces in the anthology, InvadeNola No. 1: Once Upon an Ever After.
  • Carrie Chappell was named a finalist in the 2011 Gulf Coast Poetry Contest.
  • Jamie Amos has been named the 2011 LAM Fellow and Carolyn Mikulencak, the Tillie Olsen Fellow at AROHO's summer writing retreat.
  • Nick Mainieri's story, "Bird Shot," is in the Spring 2011 issue of The Southern Review.
  • Cold Mountain Review has accepted Kelly Jones' poem "A Difficult Man"
  • Carolyn Mikulencak's story, "Amusement," won runner up in Yemassee's William Richey Short Fiction Contest and will be published in the journal's next issue.
  • Poetry student, Carrie Chapell, has a poem in the current issue of Bateau Press.
  • Look for Colleen Muir's essay, "Woman Inside the Window," in the fall 2011 issue of Fourth Genre.
  • Kelly Jones has a poem, "Killed by the Road," in KNOCK Literary Magazine #14.
  • Carolyn Mikulencak's story "Burble" was a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers contest and placed second in the Pinch Literary contest.
  • Danielle Gilyot has a regular column at gonola.com
  • Current playwriting student, Lisa Beth Allen, has won the Jean Kennedy Smith Playwriting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival. The award-winning play is titled, “Have A Heart.”
  • Hobart has accepted Nick Mainieri's short short, "A Simpler Creature."
  • "Before the Bend," a story by Jamie Amos received honorable mention for AROHO'sOrlando Prize.