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Hopwoodthe Newsletter Vol 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.
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