Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts has published its spring issue with more than forty contributors. Blackbird vol 8, no 1 features work by Taylor Thu Hien Ngo, Anna Journey, Thomas Cooper, Kara Candito, Nicky Beer, Claudia Emerson, and Jean Valentine. Find these writers (and a redesigned splash page) at
May 2009 Archives
Katie Ford's Colosseum, from Graywolf Press, has been chosen as this year's winner of the Larry Levis reading prize. Runners up for the prize were Jake Adam York's A Murmuration of Starlings and Craig Arnold's Made Flesh.
MFA student Andrea Cleary has been selected to serve as next year's Larry Levis Fellow in support of the administration of the Levis Reading Prize.
The First Novelist Selection Committee announces the appointment of MFA student Dale Smith to the Cabell Fellowship for the 2009-2010 academic year. Funded by the Cabell Associates of VCU's University Libraries--and named after the famed Richmond author James Branch Cabell--the Cabell Fellowship provides year-long assistance in the administration of the Cabell First Novelist Award.
MFA Alum Brigitte McCray will publish an article on Hart Crane and William Styron in a forthcoming issue of the Explicator, and on September 26th she will present her paper "The Intolerable Wrestle": Sylvia Plath's Ariel and T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets at the T.S. Eliot Conference in St. Louis.
Brigitte is a second year PhD candidate in the literature department at Louisiana State University where she is specializing in 20th century American and British literature with a
focus on war and culture and queer studies
Department of English faculty member Kathy Bassard has won a VCU Center for Teaching Excellence grant to create a Faculty Learning Community for next academic year. Kathy will be working with others in VCU's Black Educational Association to find methods for enhancing the learning experience of African American students at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Kate Bradley (MFA/Fiction) was selected as one of the fiction winners of this year’s AWP Intro Journals Project (a competition for the discovery and publication of the best new works by students currently enrolled in the programs of AWP).
