Creative Writing News

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Spring 2007

Bang-Bang, a first (published!) novel by Theo Gangi, will appear in October from Kensington.

Matt Ashby, now based in New York, is an operator of Bookish Love, a website for and about writers, which features, among many other things, an interview with Ryan Heryford.

Naa-Norley Adom and Rachel Loeper have just completed the MFA Program at Hollins University-- where Jordana Frankel will enroll this fall.

Steve Rubin is active in theater, film and playwriting in the Santa Fe area.  Check out his fiction under the julesworks collaboration here: http://www.birikin.com/default.pk?tsearch=julesworks&search_button.x=38&search_button.y=7

Helen McLaughlin will be attending the highly selective MFA program at the University of Virginia next year.

Dory Hoffman is on her way to the MFA program at the University of Maryland, College Park

Jessica "J" Bowers has accepted a nice package offered her by the Creative Writing Program of the University of Missouri (and will be sadly missed by those of us who depend on her stellar services in Goucher's Office of Communications.

A.C. "Tony" Evans had his first Paris art show recently.  Here's a couple of paintings that were featured there:

Music Television by A.C. Evans

Trinity by A.C. Evans

Stage by A.C. Evans

Serenity by A.C. Evans

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Fall 2006

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Andrew Ervin is having a very active career as a reviewer for New York Times Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Book World, and The Believer to name a few.  You can check out many of this articles at www.andrewervin.com.  Andrew's first book-length fiction, a collection of three novellas, is making the rounds of the publishers now.

Theo Gangi has his first novel accepted for publication by Kensington Books, on a two-book contract.

Rachel Loeper is in her second year at the recently reinvented Hollins University MFA program, and says that she is having a good and productive time.

Heidi Vornbrock-Roosa published a short story, "Catch Me Waiting," under her nom de plume Regina Harvey, with the SHOTS UK ezine: www.shotsmag.co.uk.

Terese Hereford has completed a thriller, Desert Orchid, concerning contractors held hostage in Iraq.

Maryah Converse is at work on a nonfiction book about the lives of Arab women and children, based in part on her two and a half years experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in a small village in Jordan.

Allison McCarthy, currently a junior at Goucher, has published a short story, "Underfoot" in the fourth issue of "The Write Side Up." Check out it out at http://www.writesideup.net/Magazine/Read.asp?Auth=Allison%20McCarthy&SID=Underfoot.

Lily Burana, a special student in Goucher fiction workshops in the early 2000s, published her first novel, Try, with Saint Martin's Press this summer, and celebrated with a September reading from the book on campus. Learn more at http://www.lilyburana.com/

Spring 2006

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Our very own Jessica Bowers (aka J. Bowers), class of 2002, Media Relations Coordinator in the Office of Communications at Goucher has a remarkable story called "A Contest Featuring Human Beings" forthcoming in spring/summer 2006 issue of ZONE 3 Magazine.

Fall 2005

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Elaina Loveland, Goucher graduate, creative writer, and former editor of the Journal of College Admission publishes

CREATIVE COLLEGES: A GUIDE FOR STUDENT ACTORS, ARTISTS, DANCERS, MUSICIANS AND WRITERS.

Goucher College receives recognition in more than one category in the book.

More information can be found at http://www.creativecollegesbook.com/

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Elly Zupko's short story "Clean" was published with the Baltimore Writers Project and can be read here.

Spring 2005

Darcey Steinke's fourth novel, Milk, was published by Atlantic Monthly Press

Scott Sell's short story "Saturday" was published in BOMB Magazine in 2004.

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Great graduate school news from the creative writing program

Kenneth Harris will be attending the MFA writing program at the University of Maryland in the fall of 2005.

Jason Leahey has been accepted and plans to attend New York University's MFA writing program in the fall of 2005.

Laura Bogart received a merit fellowship and will be attending American University's MFA writing program in the fall of 2005.

Naa-Norley Adom received a full-tuition scholarship with a stipend and will attend the MFA program at Hollins University in the fall of 2005.

Scott Sell has been accepted and will be attending the MFA program at The New School during the academic year 2006-2007. He was also accepted to the Salt Institute certificate program to pursue additional post-undergraduate studies in creative nonfiction and he will begin his work there in the fall of 2005.

Adrienne Casalena will attend the University of Maryland's MFA program.

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Fall 2003

A short story by Caitlin Corrigan '04,  "Quake," appears in the current edition of Fusion.

"Trouble," a short story by Stacy Grimes '03, appears in Volume 7, # 3 of Five_Points.  Read it online at http://www.webdelsol.com/Five_Points/issues/V7n3/grimes.htm.

120 Instructor Jennifer Grow has a cover story, "All That Is Seen and Unseen: Negative Space in Fiction" in the December issue of The Writer's Chronicle, published by The Associated Writing Programs

Laura Lippman's novel, Every Secret Thing appeared to spectacular reviews.  Laura will be teaching another section of English 120 in the spring.

.Spring 2003

Gilmore Tamney '90 has published a short-short called The Tale of the Wet Boat on the website Pindeldyboz.

Stacy Grimes '03 has had her short story "Trouble" accepted by the literary journal Five_Points, whose current issue (volume 7, No. 1) includes an interview with Madison Smartt Bell.

David Spencer '03 will publish his first novel this season: How I Became A Fisherman Named Pete.

John McManus '00 is publishing his second collection of stories, Born on a Train.

Darcey Steinke '85 appeared with her band  Ruffian at a benefit for Link at the Baltimore Creative Alliance, in conjunction with the annual Associated Writing Programs Conference, held this year in Baltimore.  Also featured was a performance of Forty_Words_for_Fear by Madison Smartt Bell, Wyn Cooper, James Alonso and others.

 Fall 2002

Jessica "Jay" Bowers '02 has begun her first semester in the graduate creative writing program of Hollins University-- attended in the past by John McManus, Jonathan Musgrove, Christine Stewart, and Leslie Wernsdorfer. Jessica Dolber is pursuing a graduate degree in creative writing at Emerson College where Gilmore Tamny '90 got her advanced degree.

Spring 2002

Letting the Body Lead, a second novel by   Jenn Crowell '99, will appeared from Putnam in May.  Jenn celebrated the occasion with a joint reading with Laura Lippman at Goucher; Laura taught a section of the English 202 in Fall 2002.

"Crayfish Hunting," a poem by Jonathan Musgrove '98, appears in the February issue of  The Atlantic Monthly.

Francesca Jandasek is dancing in DC! check it out at:  http://www.citydance.net/washtimes.0.11.01.html

Gilmore Tamny '90 is married, finishing an MFA at Emerson College in Boston, and has recently published a story at http://www.surgeryofmodernwarfare.com.

Fall 2001

A second section of English 202 was taught by Mary Kay Zuravleff, author of 

The Frequency of Souls

Spring 2001

Patricia Elam, who taught the 202 fiction workshop in Fall 2000, published her first novel:

Breathing Room

Alumnus Jonathan Musgrove '98 has had two poems accepted by The Atlantic Monthly : "Crayfish Hunting" and "Her Last Night at Home."

Alumnus Andrew Ervin has published "Diz Lives" (a short story written in the Goucher workshop) in Night Rally Magazine. 

Andrew is also finishing up his first novel.  Check out Night Rally Presents: The Interlocutor for a very handy guide to other literary magazines.

Alumnus Jonathan Jackson '93 returns!  to teach a section of English 120 this semester in the Goucher Creative Writing Program.  Jonathan will do a joint reading with John McManus '99, author of Stop Breakin Down : Stories in the Alumnae House Great Hall, 8:00 p.m. March 1, 2001.

Gilmore Tamny '90 reports from the Emerson College Graduate Creative Writing Program, where she is currently enrolled, that she has begun work on a first novel.

Fall 2000

Fiction Writer John McManus '99received a $35000.00 grant from the Whiting Foundation.  Jason Leahey '00 is making $ from writing... for http://www.horizonmag.com among  other places.  Check these links for his coverage of The Republican Convention and Napster.

Senior Andrea Regas published a poem, "Stolen," in The Iowa Review (Volume Thirty, Number 1, 2000)

Alumnus Andrew Ervin is contributing book reviews to The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Philadephia Citypaper.

Alumnus Jon Lasser has published Think Unix:

Guess what it's about-- an extraordinarily readable work as best can be determined by a reader who knows nothing about the subject whatsoever....  An Amazon.com reader review explains more clearly:

The way to teach a windows user how to "Think Unix", August 15, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Maryland, United States
This book is a "One Horse" book, that horse being to teach UNIX to those who have used Windows or Macintosh OS's their whole life. Although I have been learning UNIX for over a year, and would like to think I know a little bit about it, it tends to be hard to remember how to tell someone else how to "do this" or "that". This book is great for that. This takes a user who knows how to use a mouse and keyboard, and knows how to navigate under a "windowed" operating system into the world of command prompts and even the X-Windows system. Don't expect this to make you a system administrator, it doesn't even touch many of the things a user doesn't need to know, but it does fulfill its purpose. If you would like to learn UNIX so you can install LINUX on your machine at home, this can be a great start. While a UNIX's are different in some way's, Jon tends to stick to common themes, and points out when a command just has a different name. If you would like to "remember" what your users don't know, this is also great for you. It's a great book to recommend for a user to learn on their own.

For a taste of Jon's fiction, click A Million Moss-Green Shards.

Spring 2000:

Alumna Lesley Ann Wernsdorfer has been accepted by the Hollins University Masters Program in English and Creative Writing and will be attending.

Alumni Gilmore Tamny has been accepted by the graduate creative writing program at Emerson College in Boston.

Katherine Owen was a finalist in the literary contest run by the Hollins University Literary Festival ... in both poetry and fiction.

Jessica (Jay) Bowers has a story accepted for publication in The Allegheny Review.

Theo Gangi ('99) has been accepted in the Columbia School of the Arts MFA program in fiction.  Bethalee Jones '99 has been accepted to the graduate program in creative writing run by Miami University in Ohio. 

Here's what the cover of John McManus's story collection will look like.  Stop Breaking Down will be published by Picador in the summer of 2000.