STUDENT NEWS
The Department of English & Comparative Literature's graduate student Kellie Rice has won first place at the CSU Media Festival and the BEA Screenwriting Contest (which was a national competition). Ms. Rice won for her screenplay Andromache. This is the second year in a row that an SJSU MFA student has won the BEA contest competing against film schools like UCLA.
There will be an article about Kellie and Andromache in an upcoming issue of Script Magazine.
Samantha Lę’s “Blues Woman” will be published in Reed Magazine Spring 09 issue.
Evelyn A. So will be seeing her writing in The Mutanabbi Street Starts Here Anthology (Red Hen Press, 2009) and in an upcoming issue of Caesura.
Let us know next time you find a class that includes a free trip back east: The staff of Reed Magazine was sent to the AWP conference in Chicago, thanks to a grant from Arts Council Silicon Valley.The conference took place from February 11-14, and MFAers Teri Carter and Liz McDonald were among those making the trip.
January, 12, 2009 – San Jose State University The Center for Literary Arts in collaboration with, the MFA Program in Creative Writing, was awarded a grant from the Community Foundation Silicon Valley to begin the first phase of its East Side Voices Project, a literary outreach project between SJSU and Mt. Pleasant High School.
According to Alan Soldofsky, who directs the MFA Program and is the project coordinator for East Side Voices, “The East Side Voices Project will document the lives of the people from the historic east side of San Jose, giving these underrepresented subjects a voice in contemporary literature. The aim of this project is to facilitate inter-cultural dialogue and greater cultural understanding between ethnic groups in San Jose.” The project’s writer-in-residence, Samantha Lę, will mentor a group of 10 – 15 high school students in the creation and performance of monologue poems and short prose based on the lives of those who live and/or work in the east side of San Jose.
According to Samantha Lę, “The primary goals for this project are: to promote the production of literary work on a relevant and significant social topic, to provide east side high school students with the opportunity to learn from local writers and to express their cultural identity through writing, and to utilize literature as a vehicle to trade stories in a multi-ethnic arena.”
Samantha Lę, the writer-in-residence, is currently working on her MFA at SJSU. Lę’s publications include: My Solitude, a collection of poetry; Corridors, a collection of poetry and short stories; and Little Sister Left Behind, a fictional memoir, currently used as text book at the University of California Berkeley, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University and De Anza College.
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 Muńoz, 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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