Department of Creative Writing
News & Accolades - April 2012:
Announced as a finalist in our February Accolades, we are pleased to share that Edith
Pearlman, author of Binocular Vision, the inaugural book from Lookout Books, has won
the National Book Critics Circle Award in fiction.
Read more here.
Congratulations to Edith and to Lookout!
Lavonne J. Adams has a poem, "On the Banks of the San Antonio River," appearing in
the current issue of Lake Effect, Penn State Erie.
Also, her poem, "Disparity," appears in the Winter 2012 issue of Calyx, A Journal of Art
and Literature by Women.
Congratulations, Lavonne!
MFA alum David Harris-Gershon (’09) shares the good news that his memoir,
http://shrapnel-memoir.com/, has been offered on by an independent UK publisher,
Oneworld.
MFA student Jason Newport’s short story, "The Dare," is published in the inaugural
issue of Devilfish Review.
Congratulations, Jason!
MFA alum Snezana Zabic (’05) successfully defended her doctoral dissertation in March
at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her manuscript, Broken Records, is a mixed-genre
nonfiction book about the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Congratulations, Dr. Sneza!
BFA alum (’10) Brittany Creech Daniel (Publishing Certificate) has been accepted into
the University of Denver’s Publishing Institute.
Congratulations, Brittany!
MFA student Mitch McInnis’s first published book review (of Matthea Harvey's Of
Lamb) appears in Issue 32 of The Collagist from Dzanc Books.
Congratulations, Mitch!
MFA alum Rochelle Hurt (’11) has four poems from her thesis Rusted City in the current
(Winter 2012) issue of the Cincinnati Review (alongside Edith Pearlman).
She also has poetry and prose in the newest issues of Calyx (Winter 2012, alongside
Lavonne Adams), Grist: the Journal for Writers (Issue 5, alongside visiting writer Peter
Trachtenberg), and Quarter After Eight, Vol. 17.
Also, MFA alum (’10) Corinne Manning and Rochelle both have work in the new issue
(Spring 2012) of Arts & Letters.
Congratulations to Rochelle, Edith, Lavonne, Peter, and Corinne!
Ecotone had an essay from the Spring 2011 issue, Kimberly Meyer's "Holy City of the
Wichitas," chosen by William T. Vollmann for inclusion in Best American Travel Writing
2012.
Congratulations, Ecotone!
Jill Gerard’s first haibun, "Mountain in Late Afternoon," appears in Notes from the
Gean 3.4, page 114. (Gean Tree Press 2012).
Congratulations, Jill!
Philip Gerard gave a presentation titled "The Adventure of Discovery, or Why We Don't
Know What We Think We Know about the Civil War" for the Cameron Art Museum on
April 1.
Philip Gerard is the author of three novels and five books of nonfiction, numerous essays, short
stories, radio commentaries, an hour-long radio drama, and eleven documentary scripts for public
television. Currently he is embarked on a four-year-long series of historical narratives exploring the
Civil War in North Carolina for Our State magazine and will host a "Civil War Weekend" June 1-3,
2012 in Wilmington. Gerard chairs the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW and is co-editor
with his wife, Jill Gerard, of Chautauqua, the literary journal of Chautauqua Institution, N.Y.
Held in conjunction with the exhibition Eye Witness Civil War Era Drawings from the Becker
Collection and CAM's ongoing Civil War events and annual weekend.
Congratulations, Philip!
Philip Gerard releases the book trailer
for The Patron Saint of Dreams.
Congratulations, Philip!
You’re Invited to:
The first event in the UNCW Randall Library
“Future of the Book” series discussion,
IN A BIND: Celebrating the Book as Art
Thursday, April 12th, 5:15 pm,
Azalea Coast Room, Fisher University Union
Reception to follow
You’re invited to:
The 2012 Randall Library Flash Fiction Reading and Book Party!
Featuring winners:
1st Place, Rachel Richardson, Search Party
2nd Place, Michelle E. Crouch, Everything We Know About Her
3rd Place, Blair Callahan, God's Eyebrows
Tuesday, April 17th, 6:00 pm, Randall Library
Phil Furia hosts the daily segment ‘The Great American Songbook’ on WHQR during the
Midday Café, 1:00-2:00pm, and during the Morning Edition on Fridays at 6:00am.
Philip Gerard is a regular commentator on WHQR—listen to his broadcast segments
every other Thursday at 7:35a, 8:50a, or 5:45p, or online in the WHQR Thursday
Commentaries at
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/whqr/arts.artsmain?action=sectionIndex&sid=15.
Philip Gerard is featured this month in Our State magazine with his next installment of
the series “The Civil War: Life in North Carolina.” This rich and complex story will
continue monthly through May 2015 and can be read at ourstate.com/civil-war.
“The war magnified the best and the worst of the human spirit and bequeathed us a
legacy that, a century and a half later, we still ponder.”