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pwoodp ewsletter Vol. LXVII, 2 /hopwood/ HOPWOODHOPWOOD : elebration starts to feel like the receding past, and before we commence the let me say that the 75th Anniversary of the Hopwood Awards Program proved did all those things that in previous newsletters we premised and promised, unted a mini-course of Hopwood-related fi lms (taught by Peter Bauland and y Lawrence Kasdan, who came and spoke in April), a production of “The Gold hn Theatre in February (directed by Philip Kerr), a panel on “Avery Hopwood e Kellner, Jack Sharrar and Jack Stanley, Hopwood winner). We sponsored a nt Hopwood winners (Laura Kasischke, Elizabeth Kostova, Bich Nguyen and oetry reading by ex-Hopwood Committee member Alice Fulton and a lecture axter on the anniversary weekend itself. That lecture will be reprinted in the n of MQR-an issue that will feature the work of Hopwood Winners since 2000 aurence Goldstein and Nicholas Delbanco. Kathryn Beam and Peggy Daub of cripts Collections of Harlan Hatcher Library mounted a semester-long display The University of Michigan Press (Philip Pochoda, Director, and LeAnn Fields, me in hardcover and paperback titled The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized dited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp and Michael Barrett; Harvey winner Oliver Thornton of HKO Media produced a video “Celebrating Hopwood: Reading.” The anthology is available for purchase: for details see below, at the ers waved; there were interviews and stories in local and national media. On Hopwood Awards Ceremony and the Baxter lecture, we gave a banquet for e next day we held a book-signing party for contributors to the anthology at ate a series of celebrations could not have taken place without wide-spread y to thank the offi ces and staff of Mary Sue Coleman, President, Lisa Rudgers, ication, Marvin Parnes, Associate Vice President for Research, and Lester Monts, demic Aff airs. Of the many individu- ddition, I am especially grateful to Inside: the Mosaic Foundation, Jerry May, 2 Hopwood Awards ment, and Margaret Burns-Deloria, 4 Publications by Hopwood Winners ancement, College of LS&A. In the 4 -books and chapbooks njoyed the unstinting year-long help -articles and essays onica Buckley as Student Program 5 rett as Special Assistant and—of 7 -reviews rea Beauchamp herself. She is the 8 -fi ction Room, both alpha and omega, our 9 -poetry We worked together for nearly two 13 -audio recordings he 75th Anniversary program, and 13 -fi lm not have succeeded without her. 15 News & Notes d this information will come to you 16 Awards and Hoonors me end at the true beginning: to 17 Deaths nks. 18 Special Announcncements Editortorr Andrea Beauchampampa Design Anthony Cece wood Underclassmen Contest and other fall term writing contests rofessor Nicholas Delbanco on January 24. Alice Fulton gave a poetry e announcement of the awards. Judges for the contests were Hubert usak (Hopwood winner), Meredith Martin, Frederick Peters, and Lauren were ssmen Contest ed, $1500; Geoff rey George, $1000; Alison Heeres, $800 1250; Bryan Kelly, $800; Jennifer Reyna, $800; Karl Stampfl , $800 $1000; Caitlin Cowan, $800; Anna Prushinskaya, $800; Zack Weber, an Poets Prize: Graduate Division: Jennifer Metsker, $100; Under- isabeth Bell, $100 ry Prize: Jennifer Metsker, $225; Elizabeth Mitchell, $225 an Award in Poetry: Karyna McGlynn, $350; Britta Ameel, $300 Memorial Prize in Poetry: Kelsey McLees, $600; Mimi Xi, $500 morial Fellowship: Amanda Ruud, $2500; Karl Stampfl , $2500; lex Dimitrov, $1000; Martin Halprin, $1000; Jennifer Reyna, $1000 Hopwood Awards Ceremony was held on April 21. There was a musi- M school of music students, a slide show of winners and lecturers, the ing Hopwood: 75 Years of Writing Worth Reading,” remarks by President a lecture by Charles Baxter, and the announcement of the awards by ontests were Debra Allbery, Steve Amick, Gorman Beauchamp, George man, Sofi a Galifi anakis, Joseph Heininger, the Kasdan Company, Brenda hley, and Robert Whitman, and Hopwood winners Frank Beaver, Derek , Stephanie Ivanoff , Lauren Kingsley, Aric Knuth, Deanne Lundin, David rantz, Laura Roop, and Laura Thomas. were d Honor Molloy wberry and Chris Off utt ne, Daniel Pipski (Hopwood winner), and Ami Vitori Jonathan Coleman molens and Sylvia Watanabe nis Browne and Jane Shore d Theodore Roethke Prize: Sydney Lea nners: rad Hughes, $3500; Taemi Lim, $3500; Peter Mayshle, $3500; Brittani eeta Samarasan, $6000; Mike Rudin, $5000; Bryan Kelly, $2500 ay: Erik Schielke, $5000; Alaina Schempp, $4000; Brandon Hall, aduate Essay: Monamie Bhadra, $3500; Michael Pifer, $3500; Marga- chel Harkai, $2000; Laura Hunsberger, $2000 e Essay: Cyan James, $5500; Ariel Djanikian, $3500; Ashley David, $3000 aduate Short Fiction: Carlin Danz, $7000; Ryan K. Jory, $3000; Mary $3000 e Short Fiction: Celeste Ng, $7000; Phoebe Nobles, $3000; Mika Per- amarasan, $2000 aduate Poetry: Jon Liberzon, $7000; Ann Marie Thornburg, $3000; nz, $2500 e Poetry: Karyna McGlynn, $6000; Jennifer Metsker, $6000 Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize: Elizabeth Mitchell, $5000 Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing: Brandon Hall, $5500 Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund: Tania Strauss, $2000 Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Ariel Djanikian, $2600 Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Jennifer Metsker, $800 Andrea Beauchamp Prize: Celeste Ng, $800 John Wagner Prize: Cyan James, $800 Robert F. Haugh Prize: Carlin Danz, $2200 Meader Family Award: Britta Ameel, $1500; Joshua Edwards, $1500; KC Trommer, $1500 Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: Erik Schielke, $1000 Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes: In Fiction: Christina McCarroll, $1000; In Dramatic Writing: Alaina Schempp, $1000 Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award: Jon Liberzon, $2200 Geoff rey James Gosling Prize: Preeta Samarasan, $650 Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Mary Gallagher Warbelow, $500 Charles Baxter, 2006 Hopwood Lecturer. Publicationsons byy HopwoodHdWi Winners* Books and Chapbooks chapbook, April 2006. und Come Right: Four Innovators of Jazz Poetryy, criticism, The Univer- s, 2004. ack from the Moon, novel, paperback edition, Harcourt, 2006. olas Delbanco and Andrea Beauchamp The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years v. of Michigan Press, 2006. oetry, forthcoming; Laughing Monkeys of Gravityy reprinted. nd Selected Poems, Coff ee House, 2006. fiction, Foothills Publishing, 2005; Chicken Justice—And Other Unex- unty Living, a slightly enlarged edition of How to Walk a Pig, Country Moneyy, young adult novel, Random House, 2006. ung adult novel, Peachtree Publishing, April 2006. men & Other Crimes, KaRu Press, 2005. Were, a non-fi ction account from WWII, Penguin’s New American a Mirrorr, poetry, David Robert Books (an imprint of Word Tech), June ght’s third collection and is written on the subject of her mother’s atherr, a poetry chapbook, won the Editor’s Prize (one of two) from 2005 and was just published in one volume with the prize winner, e other Editor’s Prize winner, Michael McFee. oetry, Marsh River Editions, 2006. and New Poems of the Caribbean, Peepal Tree Press, Leeds, England, howicz and Tim Rasinski, Fluency Instruction: Research-based best ess, 2006. Viking Penguin, 2006. nnerr, a memoir, winner of the 2005 PEN/Jerard Award in nonfi ction, king Penguin in 2006; also a forthcoming novel, Short Girls. turbulent immediate post-Civil War period,” Morrow/Harper Collins, Write: How to Master the Craft of Writing Fiction and the Personal Nar- th Ira Wood), 2nd edition, forthcoming from Leapfrog Press in August. * Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. Davy Rothbart Found II: More of the Best Lost, Tossed, and Forgotten Items from Around the Worldd, A Fireside Original/Simon & Schuster, 2006. Penelope Scambly Schott The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomyy, a documentary narrative poem, Turning Point Books, www.turningpointbooks.com/schott.htmgp l; Baiting the Voidd, winner of the Orphic Prize for Poetry, Dream House Press, 2005, Box 4041, Felton, CA 95018. Both books are available at amazon.com. Sherman J. Silber, M.D. How to Get Pregnant, completely revised and updated edition, Little, Brown and Com- pany, 2005. The book was originally published in 1980 and it remains the defi nitive guide for those couples experiencing fertility problems. Elaine Burr Stienon The Light of the Morning: a story of beginning, Ensign Publishing House, Glendale, CA, 1988; In Clouds of Fire: a story of communityy, AuthorHouse, 2004. Both works are historical novels dealing with the origins and growth of the Mormon religious movement. “Two more books are in the works for this series, one of them about Nauvoo, the doomed Illi- nois settlement, and the last volume, which describes the colorful ‘Michigan’ Mormons— the life of J. H. Strang and his colony on Beaver Island.” Ron Jackson Suresha edited and introduced Bi Men: Coming Out Every Which Wayy, Journal of Bisexualityy, V, 2/3, 2005. Thomas A. Thomas Getting Here, Traff ord Publishing Services, Canada, 2006, http://www.traffp ord.com/ro- bots/05-0187.html. David Tucker Late for Workk, winner of the Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for poetry, judged by Philip Levine, Houghton Miffl in, 2006. Jan Wahl The Enchanted Sledd, illustrated by Swiss artist Monique Felix, Creative Company, 2005; Humphrey’s Bearr, fi rst published in 1987 with many prizes including the Christopher Medal, illustrated by William Joyce, Henry Holt, 2005; Knock! Knock!, illustrated by Mary Newell DePalma, Henry Holt, 2004; I Met a Dinosaur, ill. by Chris Sheban, Creative Editions, 1997. Sam Wallker Fantasyland: A Season on Baseball’s Lunatic Fringe, Viking, 2006. An excerpt from the book can be read on http://sportsillustrated.com.cnn.com/2006/fantasy/03/14/fantasy.book032pp y y 0 Edmund White My Lives, a memoir, Ecco\Harper Collins, 2006. Howard Wolf The Education of Ludwig Friedd, three stories, foreword by Dr. Manu Jaidka, Atma and Sons, Chandigarh, India, 2006. He writes, “This volume is the second ‘trio’ of stories I’ve pub- lished. The fi rst was published in 2004: Of the Bronx and Manhattan a Son: A Trio of New York Stories (New Era International, Chandigarh, India).