Marie Potoczny (MFA/Fiction) was selected as the winner of Style Weekly’s fiction contest.
April 2009 Archives
MATX student Lee Bloxom has been awarded an $8,000 grant to conduct an oral history of 20th century farm life on Virginia’s Eastern Shore. The announcement comes from The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the PNC Foundation who made the award jointly.
The grant covers the collection phase of the project. During this phase, Bloxom will be interviewing twenty men and women who grew up or worked on farms in Accomack County before 1960. Besides creating digitally recorded (audio) oral histories, she will also collect and digitally preserve photographs and memorabilia in anticipation of a gallery exhibit and the creation of a digital database.
Clint McCown's latest collection, Dead Languages, was nominated for several significant honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, the Lenore Marshall Prize, the Yale Bollingen Prize, the Poet’s Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the William Carlos Williams Award, the Bobbitt Prize, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
David Coogan's Prison Writing Workshop proposal was accepted as one of VCU's 10 Exemplary Projects, and submitted for national competition for inclusion on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll. The Honor Roll, launched in 2006, recognizes colleges and universities nationwide that support innovative and effective community service and service-learning programs. The award is given each year to only a handful of institutions and is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. His project on prison writing is one of four nominations selected from the College of Humanities & Sciences as one of VCU's 40 Acts of Caring competition for VCU’s 40th Anniversary. The 40 Acts of Caring competition was established to identify the 40 projects that best represent the breadth and diversity of VCU's university-community partnerships.
For more information on David's project see:
http://www.cityprisonwriters.com
