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mfa at eastern Washington university Creative writing program NEWSLETTER – February 2017 WHAT’S INSIDE Sarah shun-lien Bynum • Program Cheers and Celebrations feb. 24th 7:30 P.M. @ Auntie’s Bookstore (page 2) As part of GetLit’s Visiting Writers Series fiction writer • Letter from the Editor Sarah Shun-lien Bynum will be reading at Auntie’s at (page 2) 7:30 p.m. on Friday February the 24th. Be sure to mark your calendars, you won’t want to miss • February’s Event this! Bulletin: What’s going on with our friends at Sarah Shun-lien Bynum is the author of two novels, Aunties "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," a finalist for the 2009 (page 3) PEN/Faulkner Award, and "Madeleine Is Sleeping," a finalist for the 2004 National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. Her fiction has • Dear Second Year: An appeared in many magazines and anthologies, including advice column the New Yorker, Ploughshares, Tin House, the Georgia (page 3) Review, and the Best American Short Stories 2004 and 2009. The recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and an NEA Fellowship, she was named one of “20 Under 40” • Opportunities: A list fiction writers by the New Yorker. She lives in Los complied by Natalie Angeles with her family. Kusz (pages 4-5) VOICEOVER Saturday feb. 25th @ 6 p.m. nYne Bar and Bistro 232 W Sprague Ave, Spokane February’s VoiceOver readers are: Katie Bell, Lisa Laughlin, Justin Eisenstadt, Lisa Spears, Lauren Hohle, Taylor Kensel, alum Michael Schmidtke, MFA and fantastic faculty reader Nance van Winckel EWUat Letter From Program cheers & Celebrations The Editor Chris Maccini Dear Readers, Short story Published I hope this finds you well. First off, I’d like to tell everyone First year fiction student Chris Maccini’s short travelling to AWP to be safe and story Afloat is forthcoming in Fugue Literary enjoy themselves. Secondly, I’d Journal. Way to go, Chris! like to remind alum to notify me (or the soon to be newsletter editor) when they have good publishing news they’d like shared. First year students please remember to send in Dear Second Year questions. There megan louise rowe Poetry have been very few coming in and the advice column is for Fiction Published your benefit. Also first years, I will soon be Talented fiction second year Meagan Louise passing the editing reins onto Rowe’s story Communion has been accepted by one of you. Please let me know The Forge Literary Magazine! if you’re interested in becoming newsletter editor. Ideally, I would start working with the new editor on the March newsletter. I would be doing most of the work on that one with the new editor at my side, Cody Smith while the April newsletter will be mostly that of the new editor. Poetry PUBLISHED I will be available to answer any questions throughout the rest of Second year poet Cody Smith’s poems Hurricane this academic year and next if Party and The Faith Healer Come For Summer need be. Once there is a new Revival have been accepted for publication by editor any emails sent to me will McNeese Review. Congrats, Cody! be forwarded on. Thank you and write on! -Mary Christensen Derek Annis poetry published Alum Derek Annis’s poem Home Made of Fire has been picked up for publication by The Gettysburg Review. Excellent news, Derek! Be sure to congratulate him! MFA at EWU 2 From our friends at Aunties: Dear Second year A monthly advice column Fri., Feb. 10 – Dear Second Year, 7:00 p.m. Join Eric Scott Fischl as he reads How do you write in the face of so much political adversity? form his new novel Dr. Potter’s Medicine Show Yours, toomuchfacebook Thurs., Feb. 16 – 7:00 p.m. Writer Barbara Parson will read Dear toomuchfacebook, Fri., Feb. 17 – 7:00 p.m. All I can say is that now is the time when we must write. Crushing political Leyna Krow will read from her tension can put anyone at a loss for words, but we need the power of the soon to be released book I’m Fine written word. We need the carefully crafted art of observant writers. If a loss But You Appear To Be Sinking. of hope or sanity is inevitable, don’t lose your words, too. She will be joined by program alum Aileen Keown Vaux Last year I took a European poetry class, and we studied many authors who had been persecuted for their political writing. One poet in particular, Visar Sat., Feb. 18 – Zhiti, composed over a hundred poems while locked in solitary confinement 1:30 p.m. in an Albanian prison, without pen or paper. He says that he committed his Local writer Fred Hale will be poems to memory to keep his sanity, and to “enliven the terrible lives they signing copies of his book were forced to bear.” Through A Passage In Time I guess I bring up Zhiti’s circumstances to make this point: don’t turn away from it. Don’t turn away from the political tension of a divided country, Fri., Feb. 24 – from the news updates or from the neighbor with whom you disagree. 7:30 p.m. Engage, even if that engagement involves simply turning things over in your As part of GetLit’s Visiting mind. A lot of this brainwork will eventually lead to composition. If you Writers Series fiction writer Sarah need to write the angry draft before you can write the artful draft (And, who Shun-lien Bynum will be reading says these can’t be the same thing?), that’s okay. You must simply keep from selected works pushing. Remember that you can create art that will speak to others. Sat., Feb. 25th – Best, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Non-fiction writer Sarah Conover - A second year will be reading from her newly published essay as well as facilitating a mini workshop on memoir MFA at EWU 3 123 Opportunities: a list compiled by natalie kusz Calls for Shepard, Lydia Davis, Wally Deadline: March 31 Submission Lamb, Michael Martone, • Robin Hemley, Sue William Comstock Review enters its 31st year of publishing well- Silverman, Dani Shapiro, • Deadline: Not specified. Douglas Glover, Emily crafted, unique poetry! Both Minerva Rising Press is now on–line and paper accepting fiction, Fragos, Robert Olen Butler, Joan Wickersham, and submissions accepted. No nonfiction, poetry, art and previously published or Marilyn Hacker. photography for our simultaneous submissions. Distributors: Ingram, Media upcoming Spring/Summer Check Solutions, Disticor issue, themed Ripples. www.comstockreview.org for Whether from the personal (Canada). Chains: Barnes & Noble, Hastings, Books-A- submission details, or the political, we want to guidelines, and needed read your reflections, Million. For new submission guidelines, including SASEs. Poet’s Handbook is a thoughts and reactions to free download. Join us on payment, and to submit: that unexpected stone cast Facebook. Subscribe for only www.upstreet-mag.org. into the pond of life. $15 $20/year. Editors: Betsy submission fee, $50 for Anderson and Michael A. published fiction or • Deadline: March 15 Sickler. Comstock Review, nonfiction prose and $35 Steam Ticket, the nationally 4956 St. John Dr., Syracuse, for poetry. For more circulated literary journal NY 13215. information and submission published by the University guidelines visit our website of Wisconsin-La Crosse at Department of English, Competitions http://minervarising.us8.list invites submissions of -manage.com/ poetry, short stories, flash • Deadline: March 20. fiction, and creative Creative Nonfiction magazine is nonfiction for the 2017 • Deadline: Not specified. seeking new work for an For a new monthly issue, Volume 20. For upcoming issue dedicated to magazine entitled True Story, guidelines: “Dangerous Creations: Real- Creative Nonfiction seeks www.steamticket.org. Life Frankenstein Stories.” Send your best work, 4,000 unpublished works of narrative nonfiction words or fewer. Prizes: • Deadline: March 31. between 3,500 and 7,000 $10,000 for best essay; Eastern Iowa Review Issue 4: words long, on any subject $2,500/each for two Our special Ten Debut and in any style. No runners-up. Guidelines at Authors Only issue. We'd deadline. Complete www.creativenonfiction.org/ like to publish ten guidelines at submissions. exceptional new authors www.creativenonfiction.org with less than two /submissions. publication credits. Any • Deadline: March 31 genre (no horror or The Florida Review’s Editors’ erotica), any writing style. • Deadline: March 1. Awards in Fiction, Creative Upstreet: award-winning $100 grand prize. Art & Nonfiction, and Poetry: annual’s 13th issue seeks photography needed for this Winners receive $1,000 each quality submissions of issue. No reading fees. Small and publication. All fiction and creative honorarium or contributor submissions considered for nonfiction. Past issues copies. Family-friendly, publication. Entry fee, $20, feature interviews with Jim smart writing please. includes a subscription to www.portyonderpress.com/ TFR. For guidelines and eastern-iowa-review.html online submission link, see MFA at EWU 4 6 465 Opportunities: a list compiled by natalie kusz our website: $10. Writers may enter more We’re interested in both www.floridareview.cah.ucf.e than once, and as many as prose and poetry— du. three stories may be particularly work that submitted per entry. straddles the lines between Maximum story length is genres. Winning author • Deadline: March 31. 1,000 words. All genres and receives a $1000 The Lascaux Prize in Flash styles are welcome. All honorarium plus 25 copies Fiction is presently open for contest participants receive of the published book. submissions. Stories may be free downloads of the Two runners-up will be previously published or Lascaux Prize anthologies to chosen for publication as unpublished, and date.