MFA Alum Joshua Poteat has a new book, Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World, which will officially be published on November 1st.
For more info (and to get yourself a copy) see:
http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/index.php/books/illustrating_machine/
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrating-Machine-That-Ma...kes-World/dp/0820334146
The Department of English and the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Commonwealth University are pleased to host a reading by acclaimed poet, Thomas Lux, and VCU MFA alum, Anna Journey. The reading will take place on Thursday, October 8th, at 8 pm in the University Student Commons, Virginia Rooms.
Recent MFA Graduate Elizabeth Quinn will have a story published in the fall/winter edition of LIT magazine out of the New School in New York. She is currently serving as an adjunct instructor at JMU in the Writing and Rhetoric Department.
MFA Alum Nan Byrne just completed work on a new documentary The Aryan Brotherhood of Texas for Discovery Channel's new series, American Gangs. Another documentary KKK: Inside American Terror that aired on the National Geographic Channel in October was nominated for both a CINE and Emmy Award Award for best documentary.
MFA Alum Nathan Long has a short story set to appear in a forthcoming issue of College Hill Review. His recent fiction can be seen in failbetter and in the anthologies The Best of Philadelphia Stories, Vol II, and The Way We Work.
MFA Alum Jon Pineda will have an essay appearing in Gulf Coast and his memoir Sleep In Me is due out in fall 2010 from the University of Nebraska Press. He will also be a part of this year's James River Writers Festival (on a panel with Thomas Lux) and the ODU Literary Festival.
MFA Alum Mary Jean Kledzik has poems in the current or immediately forthcoming publications: Gargoyle, Margie, Alimentum and Lady Jane's Miscellany. She was also one of 3 "Honorable Finalists" chosen by David St. John for the 1st book award by Tebot Bach.
MFA Alum Pir Rothenberg has just published a story at juked.com. He will also have new stories in forthcoming issues of Makeout Creek, Zahir and in the anthology, Richmond Noir.
MFA alum Mary Mullins, currently an adjunct English instructor, and Vera Brown, second year MATX student and Focused Inquiry GTA, will be presenting a panel,
“Rethinking Active Learning: Character Impersonation, Creative Imitation, and Cultural Reflection in the Writing Classroom,” at the 2010 CCCC Annual Conference on March 17-20, 2010 in Louisville, KY.
For ore information on the conference see:
http://www.ncte.org/cccc/conv
