Tony Ardizzone Retires
Chancellor’s Professor of English Tony Ardizzone has retired after twenty-five years of service to Indiana University. Tony came to our program in 1987 from Old Dominion University, and from the beginning he has been a passionate and outspoken advocate for the Creative Writing Program. Over the course of his distinguished career he has earned many accolades and awards including the Flannery O’Conner Award for Short Fiction and a Pushcart Prize, but none have been more important to his department than the frequent recognition he has received for outstanding teaching, most recently the 2012 Trustees Award for Outstanding Teaching, the most significant recognition that teaching receives on our campus. We will miss Tony, and we wish him well as he follows the trajectory of the protagonist from his most recent novel, The Whale Chaser, in uprooting himself abruptly from the Midwest to pursue happiness in the Pacific northwest.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NofDPYJGQ7k
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Ross Gay Receives Guggenheim
| Poet Ross Gay has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2013-14. The Guggenheim is a prestigious fellowship awarded to “men and women who have already demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts.” Congratulations to Ross; this accolade is first and foremost an individual honor, but it also reflects well on the Creative Writing Program and on the English Department as a whole. Ross is joined this year by Rob Fulk, who also received a Guggenheim; this is the second time in recent memory that both the literature and Creative Writing programs in English have been recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation: two years ago, poet Maurice Manning and scholar George Hutchinson were each awarded fellowships. |
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Lycurgus in Best New Poets 2012
| Cate Lycurgus has been honored by having her poem, "Taking Care" selected for inclusion in Best New Poets 2012. More than 1700 poets submitted work for consideration, and Cate was among the final 50 selected for inclusion. |
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More Honors for Mlekoday
| At last month's national AWP meeting in Boston, Michael Mlekoday received another significant honor. This time, his poem "I think I'm Almost Ready to See the Ocean," which originally appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review was one of eight poems selected from poems nominated by more than 800 literary journals for the 2013 Intro Journals Prize organized by AWP. |
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Bledsoe Wins Teaching Award
| Each year the IU Board of Trustees recognizes faculty excellence in teaching through a program known as the Trustee Teaching Awards. Excellence in teaching is the primary factor for selection. This year Creative Writing Lecturer Bob Bledsoe has been selected for one of these prestigious awards. Congratulations, Bob! |
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Holden wins Lamar York Prize
| MFA student Ming Holden (Fiction) has been awarded the 2013 Lamar York Prize in Nonfiction by the Chattahoochee Review for "Coyote." Congratulations, Ming! |
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Ryan Teitman wins $25,000 from NEA
| Ryan Teitman, MFA 2010 (Poetry), recieved $25,000 from the NEA to work on his second collection of poems. See story here Congratulations Ryan! |
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Mlekoday wins Wick Prize
| Current MFA student, Michael Mledkoday, is the 2012 winner of the, Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Dorianne Laux. Mlekoday will be awarded $2,500, and his manuscript, The Dead Eat Everything, will be published by the Kent State University Press. Mlekoday will take part in the Wick Reading Series next year with Laux. |
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Jasmine Sawers has won the Emerging Writers Award from Ploughshares.
I am delighted to announce that Jasmine Sawers has won the Emerging Writers Award from Ploughshares.
http://blog.pshares.org/2012/07/16/ploughshares-announces-emerging-writers-contest-winners/
Margot Livesay was the judge, and this is what she had to say about Jasmine's story:
“From its opening paragraph, when the midwife sees a lantern flickering in the distance, ‘The Culling’ transported me. I admire the vivid use of detail and I particularly admire how much the author omits, creating a sense that this unnamed country with its harsh customs really does exist. The story achieves a striking balance between the mythic and the specific…and the result is an urgent and deeply satisfying reading experience.”
Many congratulations to Jasmine. This is indeed a top honor!
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Marcus Wicker's first book Maybe the Saddest Thing was selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series
Marcus Wicker was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His first book Maybe the Saddest Thing was selected by DA Powell for the National Poetry Series and is forthcoming from Harper Collins in 2012. The recipient of a 2011 Ruth Lilly Fellowship, he has also held fellowships from Cave Canem, the Fine Arts Work Center, and Indiana University where he received his MFA. Marcus is assistant professor of English at University of Southern Indiana.
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