MFA Alum Dan Memmolo's recent work has appeared or will be forthcoming from Free Lunch, The Ledge, Natural Bridge, The MacGuffin and Slipstream.
June 2009 Archives
MFA Alum Pir Rothenberg's recent stories have appeared or will be forthcoming from Dossier Journal, Makeout Creek, Zahir and in the collection Richmond Noir.
MFA Alum Michele Young-Stone's debut novel, The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors, was recently sold to Sarah Knight at Shaye Areheart (a literary-fiction division of Random House) and is set for hardback publication in Spring 2010.
MFA alum and Department of English adjunct faculty member Leslie Shiel was awarded the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Weinstein Fellowship. The award goes to an area poet of note and sponsors a residency at the VCCA in Amherst, Virginia. Previous Fellows are Josh Poteat and Kathy Davis.
MFA Alum Keith Montesano will have his first poetry collection, Ghost Lights, published by Dream Horse Press in spring 2010. Ghost Lights was a finalist for the 2008 Orphic Prize. The collection was also a finalist for the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, the New Issues Poetry Prize, and the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. Keith will be a PhD candidate in English at Binghamton University starting in the Fall of 2009.
Professor Josh Eckhardt's book, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry, will be published next month by Oxford University Press.
Department of English faculty member David Coogan has created a video essay on YouTube that's based on the prison-writing op-ed piece he wrote for the Richmond Times-Dispatch last year.
Also see cityprisonwriters.com/ for more on Coogan's work.
The VIJ welcomes submissions for a special section titled “Victorian Scotland” to be published in Volume 37 (2009). We are happy to consider essays, edited texts, reviews, and other material related to the experience of Scotland during the reign of Queen Victoria. While essays relating to authors and figures long represented in the canon of English literature are welcome, we especially look forward to receiving news of doings north of the Tweed which may be less familiar. Submissions should be in MLA format, and submitted in both hardcopy and electronic form (Word attachments preferred) to
Editors, Victorians Institute Journal
Department of English
Box 842005
Virginia Commonwealth University
Richmond, VA 23284-2005
E-mail: vij@vcu.edu
MA Alum John Cyrus finished a Master's degree in Library and Information Science at Louisiana State University (LSU) in May and will be starting as a tenure track Liaison Librarian on the faculty at LSU Health Science Center.
