Category: Awards

Aaron Caycedo-Kimura publishes three poems

September 17, 2019 at 4:47 PM

Wonderful news from one of our current poetry MFA’s, Aaron Caycedo-Kimura, who has three poems forthcoming this fall!  Aaron was a semi-finalist in the 2019 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize contest with two poems, “Artificial Flavors” and “Memorial.”  They will be published in the Fall 2019 issue of Crab Creek Review. In addition, Aaron’s ekphrastic ghazal “Sun in an Empty […]

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Neshat Khan wins Boston Review short story contest

April 5, 2019 at 1:33 PM

We’re so proud to announce that Neshat Khan (GRS ’18) recently won the Aura Estrada fiction prize (Boston Review) for her story “The Neighbors”!  The story was chosen by Alexander Chee, which he describes as “the story of two women figuring out the nature of a desire they don’t have words for, inventing a world […]

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Rebecca Levi wins Mick Imlah award

January 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM

We’re so proud of Rebecca Levi (Poetry ’18) who recently won third place in the Mick Imlah Poetry Prize!  The winning poem is called “December 31st” and was published in The Times Literary Supplement. Rebecca says: The thing about living in Colombia is that poems happen to you all the time. On December 31, 2017, they really did slaughter […]

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Dariel Suarez publishes story collection

January 23, 2019 at 3:06 PM

We’re so happy to share that Dariel Suarez’s story collection, A Kind of Solitude, is available for pre-order!  The book has received glowing reviews, and even made it onto the Kenyon Review’s Holiday Recommended Reading list. In addition, Red Hen Press will be publishing Dariel’s debut novel, The Playwright’s House!  We’re looking forward to hearing more details about that […]

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Poet Caitlin Doyle Awarded Pushcart Prize Special Mention

December 5, 2018 at 3:50 PM

“The Dress Code,” a poem by Caitlin Doyle (Poetry 2008), which originally appeared in The Yale Review, has been awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in Pushcart Prize XLIII: Best of the Small Presses (W.W. Norton & Co, 2019). The Pushcart Prize series honors the best literary work published each year by small presses around the country. Caitlin is in impressive […]

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Poet Caitlin Doyle Receives Presidential Endowed Scholar Award

July 11, 2018 at 9:56 AM

Caitlin Doyle (Poetry ’08) has been selected as one of 100 doctoral students in the United States and Canada to receive the P.E.O Scholar Award! This prestigious prize recognizes Doyle’s artistic and scholarly achievements. Among the doctoral students chosen as P.E.O Scholars, Caitlin has been granted the further distinction of receiving one of the foundation’s specially endowed […]

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Madelyn Rosenberg co-authors award-winning middle-grade novel

May 1, 2018 at 3:18 PM

Madelyn Rosenberg (Fiction ’02) and her friend and co-author Wendy Wan-Long Shang, are finalists for two awards for their middle-grade novel This Is Just a Test (Scholastic)! The book, which was also a Sydney Taylor honor winner, is a finalist for the Children’s and Teen Choice Book Awards and the New-York Historical Society’s Children’s Book Prize. Set […]

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Caitlin Doyle’s Poem Featured in The Guardian

January 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM

Caitlin Doyle (Poetry ’08) has been featured in The Poem of the Week column in The Guardian! Past featured poets include John Ashberry, Paul Muldoon, W.S. Merwin, Alice Oswald, Seamus Heaney, and Patricia Lockwood.  The column’s editor, Carol Rumens, has this to say about Caitlin’s poem: “Carnival” demonstrates the effectiveness of a “combination of story and song,” with each […]

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Emily Yaremchuk and Eric McHenry win Mick Imlah Poetry Awards

January 8, 2018 at 3:10 PM

We’re so proud to announce that two of our poets have won prizes in the Mick Imlah Poetry Awards!  Emily Yaremchuk (Poetry ’18) and Eric McHenry (Poetry ’97) tied for second place–Emily for her poem “Tabula Rasa,” and Eric for his poem “Picking a Prophet.” Emily (pictured), who is in this year’s MFA class, told us about the […]

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Jordan Coriza’s publication news

December 19, 2017 at 3:40 PM

We’re so pleased to share publication news from Jordan Coriza (Fiction ’08)!  His story “The Fittest” is out in the current issue of the Worcester Review.  Jordan says, “It’s about Agustin, a recurrent protagonist in my stories, who is constantly trying to make sense of some traumatic events of his childhood.” Jordan’s story “The Dead Phone” was also a […]

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