STUDENT NEWS
Jan 9 - 12, 2009 - Liz MacDonald will be presenting her paper, Repercussions: The Impact of Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun at the Hawaii International Conference on Arts & Humanities.
Congratulations to Kellie Rice for winning the 2008 Rosebud Award for a feature screenplay at the CSU Media Festival.
Congratulations to MFA student Teri Carter on the publication of her creative essay, "The Aunt Mary Show," in the new issue of the Superstition Review, a journal at Arizona State.
You can read Teri's essay here: http://www.asu.edu/superstitionreview/n2/nonfiction/tericarter.html
Kellie Rice’s screenplay ANDROMACHE has been selected as one of the five finalists in its genre in the CSU Media Festival. Winners will be announced at an award’s ceremony on Saturday, November 8th, at the CSU Channel Islands.
Steinbeck Fellow Lysley Tenorio wins a $50,000 Whiting Award - San Francisco fiction writer Lysley Tenorio, 36, a teacher at St. Mary's College in Moraga, is among the 10 winners of the 2008 Whiting Writers' Awards, which were announced Wednesday at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York. Since 1985, 10 $50,000 prizes have been awarded annually to "writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career" by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation ( www.whitingfoundation.org).
Tenorio, who was born in the Philippines, is a graduate of UC Berkeley and the master of fine arts program at the University of Oregon. His short stories, often drawing upon the experiences of first-generation Filipino immigrants in California, have been anthologized in "The Pushcart Prize" and "Best New American Voices" and have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Manoa, Ploughshares and other publications. Tenorio, a past winner of the Nelson Algren Short Story Award, has been a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford and a John Steinbeck fellow at San Jose State University and has received fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He is at work on a novel.
The other 2008 Whiting Award winners are: Mischa Berlinski, fiction; Rick Hilles, poetry; Donovan Hohn, nonfiction; Douglas Kearney, poetry; Laleh Khadivi, fiction; Manuel Muñoz, fiction; Dael Orlandersmith, plays; Benjamin Percy, fiction; and Julie Sheehan, poetry.
Past winners include Mark Doty, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jorie Graham, Denis Johnson, Sarah Ruhl, William T. Vollmann, David Foster Wallace and Colson Whitehead.
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