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RC alum Peter Anderson in Butcher
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RC Creative Writing alum Peter Anderson is starring in Nicolas Billon’s Butcher, March 20-31 at the Cultch (Vancouver East Cultural Centre). In Butcher, an old man in a strange uniform is dropped off at a police station at 3 a.m. on Christmas Eve. He refuses to speak English, and has a meat hook dangling from his neck. Impaled on the hook is the business card of a local lawyer and the words “Arrest Me.” Haunted by events a world away, a victim confronts the perpetrator of a war crime in a struggle for truth. CBC Arts calls the play “[a] funny, horrifying, serpentine stage thriller.”
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Cafe Shapiro Schedules Readings, Prepares for 21st Collection
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On February 5, 6, 8, 12, and 13, U-M undergraduate writers nominated by their professors will read original works in Bert’s Cafe in the Shapiro Undergraduate Library. Many of these works will be included in the 21st Cafe Shapiro Anthology. (Earlier anthologies are available online). Last year’s anthology included 106 works from 41 students, including several RC creative writing majors:Kathleen Janeschek, Nadia Mota, Kathryn Orwig (who graduated last year), Elena Ramirez-Gorski, Shashank Rao, Natalie Steers, and Minna Wybrecht. Cafe Shapiro launched 20 years ago as “a student coffee break” of the University’s Year of the Humanities and Art.
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RC alum James Guthrie is editor of the Emily Dickinson Journal
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RC creative writing alumnusJames Guthrie(1973) is editor of theEmily Dickinson Journal, published twice a year by Johns Hopkins University Press for The Emily Dickinson International Society. Jim has been the editor since 2016. Retired Professor of English at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, Jim is author ofA Kiss from Thermopylae: Emily Dickinson and Law(2015),Above Time: Emerson’s and Thoreau’s Temporal Revolutions(2001) andEmily Dickinson’s Vision: Illness and Identity in Her Poetry(1998).
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Cameron Finch and Mary Gallagher in Ann Arbor’s Current Magazine
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The December 2017 and January 2018 issues of Ann Arbor’s Current Magazine feature work by RC creative writing alumnae Cameron Finch (2016) and Mary Gallagher (2015).
Cameron writes “Person of Interest,” a monthly feature she debuted in the January 2016 issue. She’s written about “all sorts of Ann Arborites: dancers, chocolate makers, venture capitalists, preschool teachers, bloggers, and bartenders,” including the RC’s Laura Thomas. Click for a link to her Current archive. Cameron is a candidate for an MFA in Writing and Publishing at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where she serves as managing editor of the VCFA literary journal Hunger Mountain. She also writes for Michigan Quarterly Review and Buzzworthy, and is working on stories and her first novel. Find out more about her at her website.
Mary has an article about vaping in the January Current, and an article about “treetown muralists” in December’s. She’s working on an article about the Ann Arbor Film Festival. Click for a link to her Current archive. Mary works at the literary arts program at the Neutral Zone, and teaches a short story workshop there. She’s starting a nursing program, and working on a fiction collection. By the way, Mary’s dad, Terry, is also an RC alum (1977).
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RC creative writing alumna Megan Cummins in CRAFT
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RC creative writing alumna Megan Cummins(2005) has a short story, “Beast,” published in the December 15 issue of CRAFT, an online journal of The Masters Review. Megan’s writing has appeared in Guernica,A Public Space,Hobart,One Teen Story, Ninth Letter, among other places. She has an MFA from Rutgers-Newark and an MA from UC Davis. She is managing editor ofA Public Spaceand has worked as a reader in the fiction department atThe New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn.
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Summer Internship Funding for Creative Writing Students
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The Residential College is pleased to offer a newsource offunding forCreative Writing studentsinunpaid summerinternships through the David and Sylvia Nelson Award.Two students will receive a minimum $2,500 stipend to help support asummer unpaidinternshipfor an organization in a creative-writing related field, such as editing, publishing, social media writing, or teaching creative writing for a nonprofit (for example, a youth arts organization).
This award is open to all RC and LSA students majoring in RC creative writing.
Submit a 2-4 page proposal to Laura Thomas via emailbefore 5 pm on March 30. Include: (1) A written description of your unpaid internship, including information about the organization’s mission, a description of your expected duties, and how your internship will support your writing and career goals. (2) A budget of expenses you expect to incur during this unpaid internship. For example, if you must relocate to perform this work, itemize your anticipated living expenses. (3) A letter from the organization offering the unpaid internship verifying that you have been hired for this work.
The funding committee’s decision will be based on financial need and academic promise in creative writing, poetry or non-fiction.
Only unpaid internships performedover the summer of 2018will be considered.
David and Sylvia Nelson are both U-M graduates. In 2005 they endowed theDavid Robert and Sylvia Jean Nelson Foundation for Arts and Letters primarily to provide talented students financial assistance so they may continue their studies at the university level in visual, performing and literary arts. Nelson scholarshipshave been provided to students at theUniversity of Michigan, theCollege for Creative Studiesin Detroit, and the Detroit Public Schools’Detroit School of Arts.
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RC Creative Writing Alumna Paige Pfleger: Getting the Hang of Body Suspension
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RC Creative Writing Alumna Paige Pfleger (2015) had a story about body suspension on NPR’s Here and Now on Wednesday, January 17. After graduation (double-majoring in Communications as well as Creative Writing) Paige began work as a Digital News intern at NPR headquarters in Washington, DC. She is associate producer for WHYY’s The Pulse. There’s more about Paige at her website.She tweets@PaigePfleger.
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RC Students Win Fall 2017 Hopwoods!
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SeveralRC students won Fall 2017 Hopwood awards! Congratulations!
Hannah Brauer: Hopwood Underclassman Fiction
Alexa Zielinski: Hopwood Underclassman Nonfiction
Ceren Ege: Hopwood Underclassman Poetry
Caroline Rothrock: Academy of American Poets Prize Undergraduate
Paulina Adams: Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
Emilia Prado: Roy W. Cowden Memorial Fellowship
The 2018 Hopwood Underclassmen Awards will be announced and celebrated by Hopwood director Michael Byers. After the presentation of these awards, Antonya Nelson will offer a reading.
Antonya Nelson is the author of four novels, including Living to Tell and Bound, and seven short story collections, including Some Fun, Nothing Right, and, most recently, Funny Once. Her short stories have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Quarterly West, Harper’s, and other magazines. They have been anthologized in Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards and Best American Short Stories. She teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, as well as in the University of Houston’s Creative Writing Program.
This event is free and open to the public.
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“Living Writers,” Thursdays at 5 pm on WCBN
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On Thursday afternoons from 5 to 6, Sweetland lecturer T Hetzel has “freeform conversations” about “writing, ideas, and making things” with Living Writers(and artists, musicians, and composers) on WCBN in Ann Arbor (88.3 FM or livestream on wcbn.org). Hetzel has hosted Living Writers since April 2007.
Past conversations have included the RC’s Laura Thomas, Lolita Hernandez, Angela Dillard, Heather Ann Thompson, and Alexander Weinstein; U-M writing faculty Keith Taylor, Peter Ho Davis, Nicholas Delbanco, Douglas Trevor and Clare Vaye Watkin; and U-M writing alumni Rebecca Scherm and Elizabeth Ostova. Other recent conversations: U-M alums Chris Van Allsburg and Celeste Ng, Lorna Goodison, Gregory Pardo, David Lagercrantz.
(By the way, in its early days (1950s), WCBN was headquartered in the basem*nt of East Quad, along with Benzinger Library. More about them here and here).
Living Writers Website
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RC alum Hannah Ensor is new Assistant Director of the Hopwood Program
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RC grad Hannah Ensor has accepted the position of Assistant Director of the Hopwood Program in the wake of Andrea Beauchamp’s retirement after 38 years. Hannah begins work on December 18th.
Hannah is s from Ann Arbor and received her BA at U-M in English Language and Literature and History of Art. She also received an MFA in poetry at the University of Arizona in 2013. In 2009 she won two Hopwood awards for poetry.
She joins the Hopwood Program from the University of Arizona Poetry Center, where she served as the literary director, overseeing thePoetry Center’s reading and lecture series, classes and workshops program, student contests, and summer residency program. Hannah is a also co-editor of textsound.org (with poet and Michigan alumna Laura Wetherington), a contributing poetry editor for DIAGRAM, and has served as president of the board of directors of Casa Libre en la Solana, a literary arts nonprofit in Tucson, Arizona. Her first book of poetry, The Anxiety of Responsible Men, is forthcoming from Noemi Press in 2018, and A Body of Athletics, an anthology of contemporary sports literature co-edited with Natalie Diaz, is forthcoming from University of Nebraska Press.
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