HopwoodThe Newsletter Vol. LXX, 2 http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/ June, 2009 HOPWOODHOPWOOD

The University of Michigan Press has recently published The Hopwood Lectures, Sixth Series, edited and with an introduction by Nicholas Delbanco. It includes the Hopwood Lectures from 1999-2008 from writers Andrea Barrett, Charles Baxter, Mary Gordon, Donald Hall, Richard Howard, Charles Johnson, Susan Orlean, Susan Stamberg, and our own Lawrence Kasdan (“POV”) and Edmund White (“Writing Gay”). The book ($18.95 for the paperback edition) may be ordered on the University of Michigan Press’s website: http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc. do?id=354411.

The awards for the Hopwood Underclassmen Contest were announced on January 20 by Professor Nicholas Delbanco, Director of the Hopwood Awards Program. The judges were Charlotte Boulay, Lizzie Hutton, Todd McKinney, and Adela Pinch. A fi ction reading by Tobias Wolff , author of This Boy’s Life, Old School, and Our Story Begins: New and Selected Stories, followed the announcement of the awards. And the winners were: Nonfi ction: Xu (Sue) Li, $800; Jillian Maguire, $800; Alex O’Dell, $1,000; Eli Hager, $1,500 Fiction: Eli Hager, $800; Da-Inn Erika Lee, $1,000; Andrew Lapin. $1,000; Perry Janes, $1,750 Poetry: Perry Janes, $1,200; Gahl Liberzon, $1,500; David Kinzer, $1,750 Other writing contest winners were: The Academy of American Poets Prize: Jane Cope (Undergraduate Division), $100; Nava Etshalom (Graduate Division), $100 The Bain-Swiggett Poetry Prize: Catherine E. Calabro, $600 The Michael R. Gutterman Award in Poetry: Zilka Joseph, $450; Emily Zinnemann, $450 The Jeff rey L. Weisberg Memorial Prize in Poetry: Perry Janes, $600; Gahl Liberzon, $800 The Roy and Helen Meador Writing Award: Perry Janes, $1,000 The Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship (judged by Raymond McDaniel): David Buccilli, $2,000; Jane Cope, $2,000; Ryan Crawford Downs, $2,000; Elizabeth Parker, $2,000; Mary Paul, $2,000; Sara Walters, $2,000 Continued, page 2 Inside: 3 Publications by Hopwood Winners 3 -books and chapbooks 4 -articles and essays 6 -reviews 6 -fi ction 7 -poetry 9 -drama performances and publications 10 -fi lm 10 News Notes 12 Awards and Honors 13 Deaths 14 Special Announcements

Editortorr Andrea Beauchampa Design Anthony Cece The awards for the Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Contest were presented by Nicholas Delbanco on April 22. A lecture by Ellen Bryant Voigt, author of Kyrie, Two Trees, The Flexible Lyric, and Messenger: New and Selected Poems 1976-2006, followed the announcement of the awards. Local judges for the contests were Peter Bauland, Gorman Beauchamp, Jordan Bohy, Amy Carroll, George Cooper, Michael Hinken, Brenda Marshall, Jennifer Michaels, Sean Norton, OyamO, Leslie Stainton, and E. J. Westlake and Hopwood winners Laurie Barrett, Frank Beaver, Jeremiah Chamberlin, Richard Gallagher, Nicholas Harp, Lauren Kingsley, Deanne Lundin, Patricia O’Dowd, Kodi Scheer, and Ann-Marie Thomas. National judges were: Drama: Deborah Salem Smith Novel: Brian Hall and Marianne Wiggins Nonfi ction:Kelly Cherry and Philip Graham Short Fiction: Sarah Shun-lien Bynum and Marshall Klimasewiski Poetry: Thomas Lynch and Susan Wheeler Hopwood Award: Theodore Roethke Prize: Mary Kinzie The winners were: Drama: Catherine R. Smyka, $3,000; Sara Beth Ferguson, $4,000; Seth Moore, $4,000; Sara Schaff , $5,500 Novel: Dana Kletter, $8,500; Bradford Kammin, $10,500 Screenplay: Paul Haapaniemi, $4,500; Kimberly Jacobson, $4,500; Amanda Adelson, $7,000; Brendt Rioux, $7,500 Undergraduate Nonfi ction: John Willoughby, $3,000; Jeremy Borovitz, $8,000; Cathe Shubert, $8,000 Graduate Nonfi ction: Juliet Fara, $3,500; Timothy Hedges, $6,000; Rebecca Porte, $6,000 Undergraduate Short Fiction: Megan Cummins, $9,500; Jessie Roy, $9,500 Graduate Short Fiction: Lowen Liu, $3,000; Shira Handler, $6,000; Brian Short, $6,000 Undergraduate Poetry: Ariel Kennedy, $3,000; Perry Janes, $4,500; Hannah Ensor, $9,000 Graduate Poetry: Sheera Talpaz, $5,000; Kyle Booten, $6,000; Sarah Beth Ferguson, $6,000 The Hopwood Award Theodore Roethke Prize for the Long Poem or Poetic Sequence: Joshua Buursma, $5,000 Other writing contest winners: The Kasdan Scholarship in Creative Writing (judged by Frank Beaver and Kasdan Pictures): Paul Haapaniemi, $7,400 The Arthur Miller Award of the University of Michigan Club of New York Scholarship Fund (judged by Sean Norton): Brian Alkire, $2,000 The Dennis McIntyre Prize for Distinction in Undergraduate Playwriting (judged by OyamO): Seth Moore, $3,300; Catherine R. Smyka, $3,300 The Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing: Emily McLaughlin, $3,250 The Helen S. and John Wagner Prize: Sara Beth Ferguson, $1,000 The Andrea Beauchamp Prize: Brian Short, $1,000 The John Wagner Prize: Timothy Hedges, $1,000 The Robert F. Haugh Prize: Megan Cummins, $2,500 The Meader Family Award: Joshua Buursma, $2,800; Jessica Young, $2,800 The Naomi Saferstein Literary Award: Brent Rioux, $1,100 The Leonard and Eileen Newman Writing Prizes: In Dramatic Writing: Eric Harburn, $1,000; In Fiction: Megan Tucker, $1,000 The Paul and Sonia Handleman Poetry Award: Hannah Ensor, $2,600 The Geoff rey James Gosling Prize: Bradford Kammin, $750 The Stanley S. Schwartz Prize: Jessie Roy, $500 The Helen J. Daniels Prize: Cathe Shubert, $3,000 The dates for next year’s awards ceremonies have been set. The Hopwood Underclassmen Awards Ceremony will take place on Tuesday, January 26 in the Rackham Amphitheatre at 3:30. The reader has not yet been chosen but I’ll let you know his or her identity in the January newsletter. The Graduate and Undergraduate Hopwood Awards Ceremony will be held on Thursday, April 22 at 3:30 in the Rackham Auditorium. Playwright, screenwriter, and director John Patrick Shanley will deliver the Hopwood Lecture. Mr. Shanley won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for his script of the 1987 fi lm Moonstruck. In 1990, Mr. Shanley directed his script of Joe Versus the Volcano. His play Doubt: A Parable was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and

2 a Tony Award for Best Play in 2005. And he directed the fi lm version of the play in 2008. The fi lm was nominated for an Academy Award in Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) and also earned nominations for Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Philip Seymour Hoff man, and Viola Davis.

Publications by Hopwood Winners*

Books and Chapbooks

Brent Armendinger Archipelago, poetry, Noemi Press, 2009.

Mary Baron Storyknife: New & Selected Poems, The Sheep Meadow Press, 2008.

Frank Beaver Dictionary of Film Terms: The Aesthetic Companion to Film Art, Fourth Edition, Peter Lang, 2009.

Alex Cigale Chronicle of Calamities, chapbook, Pudding House, 2008.

Tina Datsko de Sanchez The Delirium of Simón Bolívar, poetry, forthcoming from Floricanto Press.

Mary Gaitskill Don’t Cry, stories, Pantheon, 2009.

Susan Jane Gilman Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven, memoir, Grand Central Publishing, 2009.

Richard Goodman The Soul of Creative Writing, paperback edition, Transaction Publishers, 2009.

Cynthia Haven An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz will be published next year by Ohio University Press/ Swallow Press.

William Hawes Caligua and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film, McFarland & Company, 2009.

Matthew Hittinger Narcissus Resists, poetry chapbook, 2009, www.resistthis.com; Platos de Sal (his third chapbook). It’s the second title in the Editor’s Series at Seven Kitchens Press.

Pat Kaufman O Florida!, graphic novel, Inter Ad Agency Publishing, 2008. “A series of 27 collages (15” X 20”) that tell the story of a New Yorker who becomes a snowbird, who or whom, with or without wings, goes back and forth, cold and hot, as the world turns and goes nuts…in the tumultuous year of 2008.”

Elizabeth Kostova The Swan Thieves, novel, forthcoming from Little, Brown in October, 2009.

Josh Lambert American Jewish Fiction: JPS Guide, Jewish Publication Society of America, 2009.

Scott Lasser The Year That Follows, novel, Knopf, 2009.

Corey Madsen An Evensong for Father Bob, novel, Sacred Rock Publishing, Carbondale, CO. The novel won 2nd Place at the 2006 West Virginia Writers’ Conference.

Rose A. Melikan The Counterfeit Guest, her second novel in the Mary Finch series, Sphere (Little Brown), 2009 in the UK, forthcoming from Touchstone (Simon and Schuster) in August 2009. The paperback of her fi rst novel, The Blackstone Key was published in 2009. She is also the author of John Scott, Lord Eldon, 1751-1838: The Duty of Loyalty, a biography, Cambridge University Press, 1999, and the editor of * Assume date unknown if no date is indicated. 3 Domestic and International Trials: 1700-2000: The Trial in History, Volume II, Manchester University Press, 2003.

Bich Minh Nguyen Short Girls, novel, Viking, 2009.

Sharon Pomerantz Rich Boy, novel, forthcoming from Hachette-Warner, Twelve imprint, August 2010.

Austin Ratner The Jump Artist, novel, Bellevue Literary Press, 2009. It was recently named one of ten promising debuts of 2009 by Publishers Weekly.

David Rosenberg Two books forthcoming from Counterpoint in Fall 2009: A Literary Bible: An Original Translation, “a collection of thirty years of his poetry and prose versions of the relevant biblical books”; An Educated Man: Moses and Jesus, “a dual literary biography exploring their historical, ancient educations, measured against a liberal education today.”

Elizabeth Schultz Her Voice, poetry, Topeka: Woodley Press, 2008; The Nature of Kansas Lands, University Press of Kansas, 2008, edited by Beverly Worster. “The latter contains essays I have been writing for 10 years now for a column in the Kansas Land Trust newsletter, Stewardship Notes. The column is titled ‘Senses of Place’ and all royalties for this book go toward the Kansas Land Trust.”

Marc J. Sheehan Vengeful Hymns, poetry, Ashland Poetry Press, forthcoming in Fall 2009. The book is the winner of the Press’s Richard Snyder Prize.

Susan Collins Thoms Cesar Takes a Break, a children’s picture book with illustrations by Rogé, Sterling Publishing, 2008.

Keith Waldrop Transcendental Studies, University of California Press, 2009; Several Gravities: collages and poems, Los Angeles, CA: Siglio Press, 2009; Paris Spleen: Little Poems in Prose by Charles Baudelaire [with introduction], Wesleyan University Press, 2009.

Keith and Rosmarie Waldrop Flat With No Key, poetry, Burning Deck, 2008.

Jesmyn Ward Where the Line Bleeds, a novel, Bolden, 2008.

Articles and Essays

Peggy Adler “An Interview with [Hopwood Award Winner] Valerie Laken,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, March 10, 2009.

Robyn Anspach “Three Hooks,” New Letters, Winter 2009, First Place winner of the Dorothy C. Cappon Award for the Essay.

Jeremiah Chamberlin “Making Room for the Reader: Lessons from The Magus,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, October 5, 2008; with Travis Holland, “Interview with Travis Holland, The Archivist’s Story,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, December 29, 2008.

Victoria Chang “The Split Life, Poetry with Perspective,” an interview conducted by Robert Stewart, New Letters, LXXV, 2 & 3, 2009.

Gloria Dyc “Living in the Shadow,” Gargoyle #54, 2009.

Barry Garelick An op-ed piece on the Obama’s sending their girls to a private school, http://ednews.org/ articles/31304/1/Obama-Sidwell-Friends-and-the-Achievement-Gap/Page1.html; “Discovery learning in math: Exercises versus problems,” Third Education Group, an online journal: http://www. thirdeducationgroup.org/Review/Essays/v5n2.pdf .

4 Richard Goodman “The Ceiling Link,” Ascent, Spring 2009; his article about coming late to a writing career will appear in the June issue of The Writer.

Joshua Gross Two political op ed pieces: “The right way to talk to Iran: The fi rst step is for Obama to reach out to Iranian Americans,” The Christian Science Monitor, March 9, 2009; “The Meeting of the Liebermans: Senator Should Have Known Better,” The Connecticut Post, March 8, 2009.

Travis Holland “Infl uences: An Interview with Tobias Wolff ,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, April 5, 2009.

Jascha Kessler In 2007 California Literary Review: “Once Upon a Time,” May 31, “Is There a Doctor in the House?” August 7, “Terrors on Terra,” August 21, “Plucked from Perdition: One Who Lived to Tell Her Tale,” September 5; “Crossing Styx,” October 30; Letters to the Editor: on DanielPipes.org: “Comment on Daniel Pipes’ ‘When Conservatives Argue About Islam,’” July 6, 2007; “Comment on Daniel Pipes’ ‘Ban the Burqa and the Niqab Too,’” August 2, 2007; “The Word that is missing from Pipes’ article, ‘Funding the Palestinians? Bad Mistake…,’ Dec. 19, 2007; “Comment on Pipes’ review of Jonah Goldberg’s book on ‘Liberal Fascism,’” Jan. 11, 2008; “The continuing mini-major fracas[ee] of mini- sects and sectaries,” May 4, 2008. In The Wall Street Journal: “Ingrained Despotism of Russia’s Rulers,” July 26, 2007; “Falstaff Confronts North Korea,” April 28, 2008; “Tibet Has Never Been a Democracy,” Sept. 18, 2008. In Financial Times: “Behold a fi ne example of mealy-mouthed persifl age,” (re Clive Crook’s OpEd ‘Justice is not obedience’)” Sept. 4, 2007; “Be careful with quotations,” April 1, 2008; “The perils of facing a camera and speaking into a mike,” Nov. 24, 2008. “Challenges Facing Women on Campus,” The Los Angeles Times, Oct. 26, 2007; “Auden and prizes,” Times Literary Supplement, on Ashbery and Auden, Nov. 28, 2008.

Celeste Ng “Stranger Than Fact: Why We Need Fiction in a World of Memoirs,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, October 5, 2008.

Randon Billings Noble “The Split,” forthcoming in Passages North, XXXI, 1, 2009/2010; “Mirror Glimpses,” forthcoming in Emrys Journal, XXVI, 2009.

Marge Piercy An interview with Dr. Maya Angelou, aired on January 13, 2009 on Satellite Radio.

David Rosenberg “The Holocaust Behind the Counter: L&G Luncheonette and the Origins of the East Village Poetry Scene,” Chicago Review, Winter 2009; “The Martyrology: Survivors’ Retrospective , Guest-edited by David Rosenberg,” Open Letter (Canada), Fourteenth Series, No. 1, Fall 2009, which “includes U.S. and Canadian poets and critics on the nine-book epic poem by B. P. Nichol (1944-1988).”

Dr. Sherman Silber “Successful Pregnancy after Microsurgical Transplantation of an Intact Ovary,” The New England Journal of Medicine, December 11, 2008.

Sarah Stone “Politics & the Imagination: How to Get Away with Just About Anything (in Ten Not-So-Easy Lessons,” The Writer’s Chronicle, February 2009. Sarah teaches in the MFA Program in Writing and Consciousness at California Institute of Integral Studies. This essay will also appear in Rescuing Fire from Rain: Writings on Fear, Risk and Hope Dedicated to the People of Darfur, a benefi t anthology for the Save Darfur Coalition, forthcoming from Rutgers University Press.

Edmund White “Hard Times,” a review of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by Wells Tower, 3, March 29, 2009.

Howard R. Wolf “Time and Revision: Authenticity and Retrospection,” Borders & Crossings: Tenth Anniversary Bilingual Conference, Taking Time Out to Travel: Time in Travel Writing and Tourism Studies, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2008; “The Matter of Somerset Maugham: A World with Properties,” in Aspects of Contemporary World Literature (a festschrift in honor of Professor K. Venkata Reddy), edited by P. Bayapa Reddy, New Delhi, India, Atlantic, 2008; “After The 1960’s: Too Close Reading and the Limits of Postmodernism,” Cithara: Essays in Judeo-Christian Tradition, forthcoming Summer 2009; “Under the Arc of the Summer War,” Oracle, Brewton-Parker College, Mt. Vernon, Georgia, Vol. 7, 2008.

5 Reviews

Natalie Bakopoulos The following reviews in fi ctionwritersreview.com: “Enlightenment by Maureen Freely, October 1, 2008; “Netherland by Joseph O’Neill,” October 18, 2008; “Sketches of Themselves: Sana Krasikov’s One More Year,” December 4, 2008.

James Hynes “The Ghost Girl and the Naked Savage,” a review of Nation by Terry Pratchett, The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 7, 2008.

X. J. Kennedy A review of A Phone Call to the Future: New & Selected Poems by Mary Jo Salter, The Hopkins Review, Spring 2009.

Jascha Kessler Reviews in California Literary Review in 2008: “Ancient Professions,” a review of Comrade J: The Untold Secrets …,”January 24; “As You Like It,” a review of Gary Wills’ What the Gospels Mean, April 15; “Mortal Matters,” a review of The Cape May Stories by Robert C. S. Downs, June 4; “Chronicle of a Deaf Foretold,” a review of Deaf Sentence by David Lodge, October 4, 2008.

Celeste Ng In fi ctionwritersreview.com: “Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth by Xiaolu Guo,” November 11, 2008; A review of The Mayor’s Tongue by Nathaniel Rich, March 18, 2009; a review of The First Person and Other Stories by Ali Smith, April 6, 2009.

Preeta Samarasan In fi ctionwritersreview.com: “The Outcast by Sadie Jones,” October 10, 2008; “Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor,” February 9, 2009.

Elizabeth Ames Staudt “The God of Animals by Aryn Klye,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, September 20, 2008.

Katie Umans “Poetry for Fiction Writers: 5 Recommendations,” fi ctionwritersreview.com, September 29, 2008.

Fiction

Michael Byers “Bartholomew’s Island,” Chicago Review, Winter 2009; “Betty Brown Calling,” Michigan Quarterly Review, Spring 2009.

Mary Gaitskill “Description,” The Threepenny Review #116, Winter 2009.

Gregory Loselle “Buried Dinner,” Georgetown Review, Spring 2009.

Laura Kasischke “Three Tragedies,” Epoch, LVII, 3, 2008.

William Lychack “Calvary,” The Southern Review, Spring 2009.

Celeste Ng “We Are Not Strangers,” Meridian, Issue 22, January 2009. Celeste has been teaching fi ction classes at a writing center in Boston called Grub Street.

Austin Ratner “Darker Shadows,” The Normal School, Fall 2008.

Jess Row “Lives of the Saints,” Ploughshares, Spring 2009.

Ian Singleton Translated “Die Fluch” (“The Elopement”) by Rainer Maria Rilke, Knock #10, December 2008.

6 Melanie Rae Thon “Deep Winter,” Iron Horse Literary Review, Holiday Issue, December 2008; “Writing, Like Prayer,” creative nonfi ction, http://www.glimmertrain. com/vsfsummer07.html, 2008. Forthcoming in 2009: “Birdsong Under Water,” Idaho Review, TenthAnniversary Issue; “Lost Children,” Southern Review; “Retreating Light,” Five Points; “Survivors,” Agni; “Seven Times Seven,” Indiana Review. And two reprints: “Tu B’Shvat: for the drowned and the saved,” in Drumlummon Views, Vol. 2, No. 1, Fall 2008: http://www. drumlummon.org/html/toc_V2-1.html and “The Liberating Visions (and futile fl ight) of Melanie Little Crow,” scheduled for reprint in Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image Journal, Eerdman’s Books, 2009. Melanie also published two photographs in 2008: “Mary in Refl ection,” fusion photograph, cover for holiday issue of Iron Horse Literary Review and “Virgin Forest,” fusion photograph, Glimmer Train, Issue 68: 215.

Poetry

Victoria Chang “Elegy at 4:30 a.m.,” “Elegy as Year One,” New Letters, LXXV, 2 & 3, 2009.

Alex Cigale “American Gothic” (No. 18, Fall 2007), “Human Eye Found Doing Second Job,” “Woman’s Blinding Off ers Chilling Glimpse of” (No. 19, Summer 2008), in The Café Review; “The Theory of Romance,” Emprise Review, http://muttsbane.com/alexcigale.aspx December 2008; “Todd’s Crime Scene Cleaning & Removal Service,” Global City Review #20, Fall/Winter 2008; “Monsieur Galvani Impelled by a Wish,” “Long Day’s Journey Into New England Night,” Inertia #5, www.inertiamagazine.com, Fall 2008; “Plaza San Jacinto, This Cozy Place,” Nth Position, www.nthposition.com, August 2008; “Inside Gene’s Autobody Spare Parts Shop,” North American Review, November/December 2008; “Teeth Extracted by the Latest Methodists,” “A Parable,” Poemleon, www.poemleon.com, Winter 2008, III, 2; “Habeas Corpus (Show Me the Body),” “The Awesome Hubris of the Tuareg,” “Black Elk, Geronimo, and Red Cloud Speak,” The Potomac Journal, www.thepotomacjournal.com, Winter 2009; “Ravenous vermin in front of velvet ropes,” Qarrtsiluni, http://qarrtisluni.com, Fall 2008; “They Are Again Culling the Elephants,” “In Barren Shallows Where Ice Crystals Form,” Willows Wept Review, http:// willowsweptreview.blogspot.com, Fall 2008; “A Loathsome Heaving For All Hallows’ Eve,” “Todd’s Crime Scene Removal & Cleaning Service,” “Tomorrow’s The Dominican Day Parade,” “A Backhanded Compliment, My Flower,” in Stranger at Home: American Poetry with an Accent, Numina Press, 2008; Forthcoming: “Cambodian Aesop’s Tale of Forgiveness,” “Woman’s Blinding Off ers Chilling Glimpse of,” Chiron Review #85, Winter 2009; “Rabid Loves of the Americans,” Gargoyle, 2009; “Ablation Arenaceous Daughter Worry,” plus one other poem in Many Mountains Moving, IX, 1, 2009; “Johnny Cash and Liberace, In Concert,” Zoland Poetry, 2009; “There Are Many Things We Can’t Understand,” The Adirondacks Review, http://adirondacksreview.homestead.com, Winter 2009; “Roosevelt Island,” Nth Position, March 2009; “Wildlife Returns to Reclaim the Edges,” “Sympathy for the President,” The Externalist, http://theexternalist.com, February 2009; “Queens Split Tried to be a Resort but Sank,” “In Barren Shallows Where Ice Crystals Form,” Sea Stories; “In the still forest heard from far away,” “How the Animals Came Into this World,” Willows Wept Review, Winter 2009; “Huambo, Angola; An Explanation,” “River of Death, River of Dreams,” in Against Agamemnon: War Poems, WaterWood Press, 2009; “How the Animals Came Into this World,” in The Cento: A Collection, Red Hen Press; “Teeth Extracted by the Latest Methodist,” in Humorous Poetry, Pavement Saw; “Lines Upon Leaving a Sanitarium,” “Mycelia: Dream by Analogy,” “Toward the Poetry of the Impure,” 66: The Journal of

7 Sonnet Studies, November 2008; “The Apotheosis of a Village Scribe,” Third Wednesday, Summer 2008; “Toward the Poetry of the Impure,” Babel Fruit, online, Winter 2008-09; “Some Unsound Devices, Highly Specifi ed,” Drunken Boat, www.drunkenboat.com.

Gail Gilliland “Poppies After Death,” Cimarron Review #165, Fall 2008; “A Cat Among the Dying,” Pinyon #17, Spring 2008.

Patricia Hooper “The Seabee,” The Iowa Review, Winter 2008/09.

Laura Kasischke “The cerebral hemispheres,” “Four Men,” New Letters, LXXV, I, 2008-09;

Jascha Kessler 7 translations from the Hungarian: “O!” and “You Think” by Åkos Szilagyi; “What to Expect” by Béla Bodor; “The Lake at Dawn,” “A Banal Poem. Subject. Love,” “In Praise of the Sea” by Andras Petöc; “Snow Covers the Garden” by Florá Imre, New European Poets, Gray Wolf Press, 2008; “The Cannibals,” “The Marriage,” Metverse Muse, September 2007 & March 2008), Double Issue, India; “Song (pace John Donne),” with a note, published as a Letter to the Editor, Santa Monica Mirror, Jan. 16, 2009.

Gregory Loselle “The Magnolia and the Telephone: Spring View from the Den Window,” The Ledge. “It’s part of a book of poems, The Very Rich Hours, about being a child in my grandparents’ house.” “Shelling in the Philippines, World War II” was been awarded the 2009 Pinch Poetry Award of The Pinch Magazine at the University of Memphis and will be published in the spring issue.

Deanne Lundin “What It Cost,” “How Tulips Invented Jazz,” The Kenyon Review, Spring 2008.

Louis Megyesi “My Son Is in the Wind,” The Lyric, LXXXVIII, 3, Summer 2008; “Laundry,” The Aurorean, XIII, 2, Fall/ Winter 2008-2009.

Jennifer Metsker “The True World Lives by the Philosophy of Bullies,” The Cincinnati Review, Fall 2008; “The True World,” The Cimarron Review, Winter 2009; “The True World Wears a Sweater,” “The True World Participates in a Cake Walk,” forthcoming in Gulf Coast, Fall 2009; The poem “Cake Walk” was a fi nalist for the Patricia Goedicke Poetry Prize in Winter 2008.

Derek Mong “Equivalents,” The Kenyon Review, Spring 2008.

Marge Piercy “The truncated training,” “Who’s blushing now,” Blue Fifth, online, October 2008; “Moving on up,” On the Issues, online, November, 2008; “Murder, unincorporated,” Basalt, III, 1, 2008; “You settle,” Blue Collar Review: Journal of Progressive Working Class Literature, Partisan Press, Spring 2008; “Sister moon,” the 09 Lunar Calendar, Luna Press, Boston; “The pond just after dark,” “Travel broadens the mind,” Mobius, XXIII, 26th Anniversary Edition, September/October 2008; “The entangling,” The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, XVIII, 2, Summer 2008; “Today on my birthday,” “A new life,” “Direction uncertain,” Prairie Schooner, Fall 2008; “When I learned what it meant,” Midstream, September/October 2008; “The call of the tame,” “Immunity,” New York Quarterly, LXIV, 2008; “End of Days,” Rattle, XIV, 2, Winter 2008; “Growing up female in the ‘50s,” “When the movement opened up,” Feminist Studies, The 1970s Issue, XXXIV, 3, Fall 2008; “Traversing,” “Paying attention,” “The parade goes through us,” “The seasonal exchange,” “The life cycle of the garden tomato,” Paterson Literary Review, Vol. 37, 2009- 2010; “Shedding,” Anderbo, online, February 2009; “They don’t tell you how sex changes,” Passager #47, Winter 2009; “An ordinary bowl,” “Wise a bit late,” “You won’t miss it,” Two Review, 2009; “A Nice Suburban Neighborhood,” Blue Collar Review, Partisan Press, Winter 2008-2009; “Turn me over and empty me out,” Earth’s Daughters, Soapbox Issue, # 74, 2009.

Paisley Rekdal “Tango Lesson,” “All Moon,” New England Review, XXIX, 4, 2008.

Elizabeth Schultz “Odysseus’ Daughter,” Rockhurst Review, Spring 2007; “Divide and Conquer,” Concho Review, XXI, 1, Spring 2007; “Clashes in the Garden,” The Midwest Quarterly Review, XLVIII, 4, Summer 2007; “Haskell Indian Nations University Cemetery,” Kansas City Voices #5, 2007; “Mrs. Noah Takes the Helm,” Flint Hills Review #12, 2007; “Sic Transit Gloria Mundi,” Barnwood, March 2008, www.barnwood.org;

8 “Spring Seeds in a Time of War,” Friends Journal, April 2008; “Welcome to the New China,” Tipton Review #9, Spring 2008; “The Sweepers,” Kansas City Voices #6, 2008; “Horror Vaccui,” “Reunion,” I-70 Review #4, Spring 2008; “Mrs. Noah Ponders the Insects,” Honorable Mention, Passager #46, 2008; “The Birds of Baghdad,” The LBJ: Avian Life Literary Arts, I, 1, Fall 2008; “A Surprising Recollection of Angels,” Cottonwood, Fall 2008.

Marc J. Sheehan “Genealogy,” Driftwood, Spring 2008; “Some Notes Concerning Love and Hemmings Motor News,” Steam Ticket, Spring 2008; “E-Mail from Lagos Ending With a Plea for the Redeemability of the Present World,” J magazine, Spring 2008; “A Note on Rejection,” Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, 2009.

Laurence W. Thomas “Sunrise Service,” Third Wednesday; “Equanimity” and “Refl ected Starlight,” 37 Cents; “Remembrance of things Aging,” Blue Unicorn.

Matthew Thorburn “Proof,” New England Review, XXX, 1, 2009.

Keith Waldrop “Standard Candles,” Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America, eds. Kornelia Freitag & Katharina Vester, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2009; “First Draw the Sea,” “Singular,” American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, ed. Cole Swensen & David St. John, W.W. Norton, 2009.

Keith & Rosmarie Waldrop “Turn Now,” Phoebe, XXXVII, 2, Spring 2009.

Rosmarie Waldrop “Impossible Object,” Another Language: Poetic Experiments in Britain and North America, eds. Kornelia Freitag & Katharina Vester, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2009; “Evening Sun,” “Song,” “Meditation on Understanding,” “Song,” “Steps in Integration,” American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry, ed. Cole Swensen & David St.John, W.W. Norton, 2009; “Music Is an Oversimplifi cation Of the Situation We Are In” and “Conversation with Christine Hume,” 12 x 12 Conversations in 21st-Century Poetry and Poetics, ed. Christina Mengert & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, University of Iowa Press, 2009; “For Sawako & Eugene,” Van Gogh’s Ear 6, 2009; “Nouns,” “The Need,” Alligatorzine, March 2009; “Velocity Without Location” 13-15, Salt Magazine, March 2009.

Ronald Wallace “Mr. Grim Bicycling Past a Station of the Metro,” Tar River Poetry: 30th Anniversary Issue, Fall 2008.

Joyce Winslow has had her fi rst poem, “On The Other Side Of The Poem,” published on 330 buses and metro cars in Virginia as part of the Moving Words initiative. Moving Words, inaugurated in 1999 during National Poetry Month, is a program that places poetry on Northern Virginia Metrobuses operating in Arlington, Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax County and Fairfax City. Joyce writes: “I’m looking forward to seeing my poem cut me off when a bus squeezes into my lane!” In addition, she will have a short story published in an anthology of Washington Women Writers called Gravity’s Dancers, and debuted at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC in July.

Drama Performances and Publications

Kim Yaged The Downtown Urban Theater Festival in association with The Real Theatre Company presented her play America on May 12 at hERE Arts Center in New York. “Directed by Maggie Levin and choreographed by Emma Canalese, America is a provocative social commentary that uses dance and ‘land of the free’ stereotypes to explore ethnicity, race, religion, and culture in the United States.”

Edmund White Terre Haute, “inspired by the essays Gore Vidal wrote for Vanity Fair about his correspondence with Timothy McVeigh, who bombed the Alfred P. Murray Federal Building in Oklahoma City” [NYT], has played in San Francisco, Edinburgh, the West End of London, and, in February, Off Broadway in New York at 59E59 Theaters.

9 Lizzie Wolf (formerly The Strawberry & the Kaiser, a full-length play, was performed as a staged reading, as part of the known as Liz Brent) Performance Network Theatre Fireside Festival of New Works, on March 17, 2009 in Ann Arbor.

Film

Frank Beaver continues writing his monthly “Talking About Movies” column for Michigan Today. An especially interesting one is April’s “M-ollywood” about the recent legislation that off ers tax breaks to fi lm producers who fi lm in Michigan. Gran Torino was fi lmed in Highland Park and an upcoming Hilary Swank movie, Betty Ann Waters, was fi lmed in Ann Arbor.

News & Notes

Amy Bingaman gave a talk at the U of M’s Nineteenth Century Forum on December 5. It was titled “The ‘Infi nite Boon of Bliss’: Jane Morris, Astarte Syriaca, and D. G. Rossetti’s Re-appropriation of Classical Sources.” Amy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at Bowling Green State University.

Michael Castleman We were delighted to hear from him after many years: “I left Ann Arbor in 1975, and moved to San Francisco, where I’ve lived ever since. I’m a freelance journalist and novelist. My journalism has focused on health defi ned broadly: staying well, mainstream medicine, the alternative therapies, nutrition, fi tness, and sexuality. I’ve written some 1,500 health articles for magazines and Web sites, and a dozen consumer health books, among them The Healing Herbs (about herbal medicine), Before You Call the Doctor (with Anne Simons, M.D., a home medical guide), There’s Still a Person in There (about Alzheimer’s disease), and Building Bone Vitality (with Amy Lanou, Ph.D., about osteoporosis prevention, forthcoming in June 2009). My novels are a mystery series set in San Francisco featuring newspaper reporter Ed Rosenberg. The titles include: The Lost Gold of San Francisco, Death Caps, and A Killing in Real Estate (December 2009). True confession: During the summer after my freshman year, the summer of 1969, I stayed in AA and got a job as a janitor for the University, working 4 p.m. to midnight. I was assigned to Angell Hall and my area included the Hopwood Room. I worked more quickly than necessary—sweeping up, emptying trash cans, polishing fl oors and woodwork—and usually fi nished my appointed rounds by about 11, leaving an hour to amuse myself. Assuming I did not hear the jingle of keys that meant my boss was approaching, every night, I returned to the Hopwood Room and reveled in all the wonderful reading material there. I dreamed of studying writing, winning a Hopwood, and earning my living as a novelist.”

Derek Green and his wife Maggie McInnis announce the birth of Benjamin Thomas Green on February 26. Benjamin weighed 6 pounds, 1.5 ounces.

Cynthia Haven spent last summer as a Milena Jesenská Journalism Fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Vienna, doing her fi eldwork mostly in Kraków, but also working in Warsaw, London, Oxford, and Prague. Her subsequent articles have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement and the Los Angeles Times—with more on the way. Her forthcoming An Invisible Rope: Portraits of Czesław Miłosz will be published next year by Ohio University Press/Swallow Press. Her essay on Zbigniew Herbert’s “Report from a Besieged City,” originally on Words Without Borders website, will appear Cynthia Haven and Yoko Ono in the anthology Fall of the Wall (Open Letter

10 Books) later this year. And she did her fi rst podcast on www.poetryfoundation.org, to accompany her article on Miłosz, “The Doubter and the Saint.” “But you will see from the attached photo what I am most likely to be remembered for this year—I interviewed Yoko Ono.”

Nathan Jones and his wife Judy announce the birth of Grady Nathan Jones (3lbs. 11 0z.) and Tatum Sadie Jones (3 lbs. 12 oz.) on March 5.

Laura Kopchick “I’ve recently been named as the new General Editor for the Katherine Anne Porter Award through UNT Press. It’s a national book award (short stories) with the winning manuscript published each year by the University of North Texas Press. 2009 will be my second year as General Editor.”

Elizabeth Kostova “In the last two years, I’ve created the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation to assist Bulgarian writers and translations, and to bring native-English writers to Bulgaria. Last spring, I was distinguished guest instructor in the MFA program at UNC-Wilmington, and I continue to teach annually at Bear River Writers’ Conference.”

Gregory Loselle “The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble debuted a piece, ‘Just Out of Reach,’ which incorporated two poems of mine. The ensemble performed the piece in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in August, then took it to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland.”

David Garrard Lowe “I have been busy this past year writing, lecturing and serving as President of the Beaux Arts Alliance, a New York organization which celebrates the cultural links between France and thte United States. In January I presented a series of sold-out lectures at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on the subject of England and the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. This Spring I will be giving four illustrated lectures at the Museum on American writers abroad, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Mark Twain. I have also been lecturing in Chicago, Palm Beach, Dallas, Cleveland, and on cruise ships. I recently have experimented with a whole new genre of writing which is devoted to leading popular musicians of the recent past. The fi rst of these was ‘Cole Porter: He’s the Top,’ with spoken words and images by me and songs by leading cabaret singers. The Porter has been presented in New York, Newport, Palm Beach, Key West, and Louisville. On January 14, my latest, ‘An Evening with Noel Coward,’ was presented at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. I was the narrator and also ‘spoke’ three songs including ‘Mad Dogs and Englishmen,’ while a dozen of Coward’s compositions were sung by the noted cabaret star K. T. Sullivan. The pianist was Dennis Buck. The event drew a standing-room- only audience. My book, Art Deco New York, was awarded a plaque by the Art Deco Society. A lecture I gave on Dorothy Parker to the prestigious Dutch Treat Club at the National Arts Club won the Dutch Treat’s medal. I am currently at work on a new book.”

Laurence W. Thomas “I just returned from Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where I gave two lectures on poetry and some poetry workshops. I have been lecturing for the Ozark Poets’ Retreat for 17 years.”

Susan Siris Wexler “For quite some time now I have enjoyed receiving the Hopwood letter. Now I have some news of my own to off er. I was a 1950 minor essay Hopwood winner on a student trip to Europe I took the summer of 1949. In 1951 I completed an M.A. studying with Roy Cowden in a class with Frank O’Hara. It was a most memorable time. Since 1955 I have lived in Cambridge, MA, where I raised a family of three children and returned to a childhood love, the study of art. I worked privately with various Boston painters, took a BFA at Boston University, studied art history informally at the Fogg Museum at Harvard, and eventually decided that my calling was in drawings. I’m Pencil drawing by Susan Siris Wexler

11 now in my fourth year at HILR, the Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement, where a show of my drawings is presently on view. It includes portraits, nature, and fi gure drawings in silverpoint, terracotta pencil, and pen and ink wash.”

Howard R. Wolf was invited as Keynote Speaker to lecture in Bonn, Germany May 21-24, 2009 (under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, Cultural Section), as part of a conference on “Urban Landscapes. Urban Cultures: The City in the 21st Century.” His papers were entitled “Growing Up in New York City During WW II” and “New York City in American Literature.” His essay “Paris After WW II: A Young New Yorker’s Literary Journal,” was part of the Melbourne Festival of Travel Writing, July 19-20, 2008.

Awards& Honors

Robyn Anspach won New Letter’s $1,500 Dorothy Churchill Cappon Essay Prize for “Three Hooks.”

John U. Bacon won the 19th annual Golden Apple Award at the University of Michigan and delivered his “ideal last lecture,” “What I Learned—Despite My Eff orts,” on March 31. The award recognizes outstanding University faculty and is given by the student group, Students Honoring Outstanding University Teaching. John is a lecturer in American Culture and taught the very popular courses “History of College Athletics” and “The Rise and Fall of the American Sportswriter.” John’s most recent book is Bo’s Lasting Lessons, written with Bo Schembechler.

Jeremiah Chamberlin His short story “What We Can” won 1st place in Glimmer Train’s Family Matters Competition this February and will be published next year. His essay “Workshop Is Not For You” appeared in Glimmer Train’s April Bulletin. He is also the recipient of a 2009 Fellowship to attend the Sozopol Fiction Seminar in Sozopol, Bulgaria, this summer. In addition to teaching at the University of Michigan, he is the Associate Editor of Fiction Writers Review, where he is a frequent contributor.

Delia Decourcy were winners of the 2009 David and Linda Moscow Prize for Excellence in Teaching Composition at D’Anne Witkowski the University of Michigan.

Gail Gilliland Her short story collection, The Demon of Longing (Carnegie Mellon, 2001) was a semi-fi nalist for Shendandoah’s Glasgow Prize in Spring 2008.

Tung-Hui won the second annual Summer Poetry Residency from the University of Mississippi. He received a one-month residency at the Lawrence House, near the University of Mississippi campus, and an honorarium of $1,500.

Laura Kasischke is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Gregory Loselle “Buried Dinner,” a short story, was a runner-up in the Wordworks competition and is part of their anthology. It was also a runner-up in the Georgetown Review’s fi ction competition.

Randon Billings Noble was awarded a three-week residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, funded by the Gwendolyn and Morris Cafritz Foundation.

Paula Peterson won the $1,000 Virginia Faulkner Award for Excellence in Writing for her story “Shelter,” published in the Spring 2008 issue of Prairie Schooner. She is the author of the story collection Women in the Grove, Beacon Press.

Alex Ralph was awarded the 2009 BEN Prize at the U of M, funded by an endowment in honor of alumnus Larry Kirshbaum. The prize goes to a lecturer who has achieved a high level of excellence in the classroom.

12 Kodi Scheer won a $5,000 award from Dzanc Books to complete her short story collection and teach a series of workshops at the U of M Cancer Center.

Elizabeth Schultz held a Distinguished Fulbright Lectureship at the Beijing Foreign Studies University in 2007. In October 2008, she co-organized a conference in Beijing at Tsinghua University on ecocriticism, “Beyond Thoreau: American and International Responses to Nature.”

Larissa Szporluk is the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Donald A. Yates received a John Guggenheim Fellowship for the period 2008-2009 to complete a memoir/ biography of Jorge Luis Borges. In 2008, the Authors Society of London selected Labyrinths: Selected Writings of Jorge Luis Borges as one of the fi fty most important translations into English over the past fi fty years. With James E. Irby, Mr. Yates co-edited and co-translated the book, which was published in 1962 by New Directions. Mr. Yates was the principal translator of Argentine writer Edgar Brau’s short story collection, Casablanca and Other Stories, published in 2006 by Michigan State University Press. The book was one of four fi nalists for the PEN 2007 award in the category of translation. Mr. Yates travelled to Buenos Aires in December, 2008. While there, he received the title of “Visitante Ilustre” from the City of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Academy of Letters held a special session to honor him for a half-century of translating into English and seeing into print the novels and short stories of many Argentine authors.

Deaths

We were saddened to by the death of Milan Stitt, winner of a Minor Drama Award in 1961 and a Major Drama award in 1963, on March 12. Dennis Hevesi wrote in the New York Times:

“Milan Stitt, 68, Playwright and a Nurturer of Talent, Dies CLOS Milan Stitt, the author of the critically praised 1976 Broadway drama ‘The Runner Stumbles’ and founder and director of the play development program at the Circle Repertory Theater, an Off Broadway incubator for playwrights, died on Thursday in Manhattan. He was 68 and lived in Pittsburgh and Manhattan. The cause was liver cancer, his sister, Susan Miller, said.

Mr. Stitt wrote ‘The Runner Stumbles’ in 1974. Based on an actual event in rural Michigan in 1911, the play is about a Roman Catholic priest

who is tried for killing a nun after their passion Mellon Carnegie University credit: Photo is thwarted by their vows. A 1979 fi lm version, directed by Stanley Kramer, starred Dick Van Dyke, Kathleen Quinlan, Beau Bridges, Ray Bolger, Maureen Stapleton and Tammy Grimes. The play was revived off Broadway in 2007 at the Actors Company Theater. Although best known for ‘The Runner Stumbles,’ Mr. Stitt wrote 17 plays for the theater and television as well as articles on theater and travel. In 1981, his account of another true story, titled ‘Ephraim McDowell’s Kentucky Ride,’ was broadcast on PBS. It told of the Kentucky frontier surgeon who performed the world’s fi rst successful surgery to remove an ovarian tumor, in 1809.

Mr. Stitt’s 1980 play ‘Back in the Race’ examined this country’s Puritanical heritage through the burdens borne by Jonathan Edwards 7th, an angry young man out of Princeton who is a direct

13 descendant of the 18th-century Calvinist theologian. Mr. Stitt made what was probably his biggest mark as head of the play development program at the Circle Rep. In his years with the company, he served as dramaturge to budding playwrights like Bill C. Davis, Albert Innaurato, Arthur Kopit, Paul Zindel and David Mamet. In 1992, he helped start the Circle Rep’s theater school. Within two years, the school was off ering 44 classes in play writing, acting and directing, with an enrollment of more than 400 students. Mr. Stitt was executive director of the Circle Rep from 1994 to August 1996. After that, Mr. Stitt was professor of dramatic writing at Carnegie Mellon University. He had previously taught at Yale, Princeton, the University of Michigan and New York University.”

Special Announcements

A heartfelt thank you to Program Assistants Monica Buckley and Urvi Shah who graduated this spring. Not only did they capably direct the operations in the Hopwood Room while I recovered from back surgery, but they handled the daily tasks with intelligence, kindness, and a painstaking attention to detail. I’m profoundly lucky to have had the opportunity to work with them.

Please help us to keep the Newsletter as accurate and up-to-date as possible by sending news of your publications and activities. Your friends would like to hear about you! You could write, fax (using the English Department’s number, 734-763-3128) or e-mail me: [email protected]. Important: if e-mailing, please type HOPWOOD in the subject line so your message isn’t deleted by mistake. The Hopwood Room’s phone number is 734-764-6296. The cutoff date for listings was April 24. If your information arrived after that, it will be included in our next newsletter which will come out in January. The cutoff date for that will be November 26.

Our thanks to all of you who have so generously donated copies of your books to the Hopwood Library. The special display of recent books by Hopwood winners always attracts a lot of attention. We appreciate your thoughtfulness very much and enjoy showing off your work to visitors.

Unfortunately, so many of you have personal websites and blogs that we’ll be unable to make note of them in the future. We’re trying to keep the newsletter to manageable size.

Looking for a writers’ conference, center, residency, or retreat to attend? The Writers’ Conferences and Centers (WC&C) website, www.writersconf.org, provides information about the most established and respected writing organizations in North America and abroad.

The Hopwood Program has a Web page address: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/hopwood/. Visit the English Department’s MFA Program site at http://www.lsa.umich.edu/english/grad/mfa.

Best wishes for a good spring and summer. Do stop by to say hello if you’re visiting Ann Arbor.

Andrea Beauchamp

14 NEW LITERARY PROJECTS FEATURING HOPWOOD WINNERS

Fiction Writers Review is an online literary journal dedicated to reviewing, recommending, and discussing quality fi ction. Its contributors, a community of emerging and established writers, aspire to get writers and readers talking not only about the ways fi ction reads, but also how it works and why it matters.

Currently seeking submissions for reviews, interviews, and essays on craft and the writing life.

Contact Anne Stameshkin, Editor-in-Chief: fi [email protected]

HOPWOOD WINNERS FEATURED: Peggy Adler, Natalie Bakopoulos, Jeremiah Chamberlin, Shira Handler, Travis Holland, Cyan James, Dana Kletter, Valerie Laken, Danielle Lazarin, Sopang Men, Nami Mun, Celeste Ng, Greg Parker, Mike Rudin, Preeta Samarasan, Sara Schaff , Brian Short, Elizabeth Ames Staudt, Ben Stroud, Katie Umans, and Jesmyn Ward.

The Elizabeth Kostova Foundation was created to promote creative writing in Bulgaria. Specifi cally, its mission is to encourage, challenge, and publish literary authors in Bulgaria; to cultivate connections among Bulgarian and native-English writers; to assist in the training of translators for contemporary Bulgarian literature; and to facilitate the publication of Bulgarian writers in English. The Foundation also seeks to introduce the work of native-English authors to a Bulgarian audience, to provide native-English writers the opportunity to improve their own work by studying in Bulgaria, and to foster a global exchange of literature through dialogue and creativity.

HOPWOOD WINNERS: Co-Founder – Elizabeth Kostova 2008 Fellow – Travis Holland 2009 Fellows – Jeremiah Chamberlin & Kodi Scheer

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