DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING - News & Accolades - 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN) - UNC Wilmington
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DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Tim Bass has new writing featured in Our State: “The Cream of Calabash” dishes up
nostalgia with a family ice cream business known for its seasonal treats.
Tim Bass writes for the Wilma “Men’s Room” column every other month. Read his
latest at wilmamag.com/author/tim-bass.
Melissa Crowe is the winner of the 2021 Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the
Poetry Society of America.
She also has three new poems in Issue 113 of The Rupture.
Sayantani Dasgupta was interviewed by The Arkansas International, The Rumpus, Read
it Right (part one and two), Yourstory, and Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies, for
which she also conducted an interview of fellow creative nonfiction professor Melody
Moezzi. She has an essay in SheThePeople.
Sayantani’s upcoming book Women Who Misbehave received a nice review from
Trinanjana, and this blurb from Times of India: “Women Who Misbehave is a collection
of short stories written by Sayantani Dasgupta, who is a Write India season 3 winner for
author Kavita Kane's contest. These stories are about unforgettable women and their
search for agency. Unapologetic and real, they embrace the entire range of the human
photo credit Amrinder Grewal. experience, from the sweetest of loves and sacrifices to the most horrific of crimes…”
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A book excerpt appears with Scroll.in.
KaToya Ellis Fleming has a review published in the Summer 2021 issue of The Georgia
Review of W. Ralph Eubanks’ memoir A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real
and Imagined Literary Landscape.
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Philip Gerard has a review published in the 2021 North Carolina Literary Review of
Wayne Moore’s memoir Triumphant Warrior: A Soul Survivor of the Wilmington Ten.
David Gessner’s latest book Quiet Desperation, Savage
Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau in the Age of Crisis has
released with Torrey House Press.
Nice book reviews appear in Kirkus, the New York Journal of
Books, and the Washington Independent Review of Books.
David’s piece about the transformative power of a daily
writing practice “The Advantages of Failure: What Thoreau
Taught Me About Journal Writing” is published with LitHub.
His essay in remembrance of writer Brad Watson appears in
The American Scholar.
Nina de Gramont’s short story, “Evacuation Routes,” appears in issue 53 of
StoryQuarterly. Also, her YA novel The Distance from Me to You (written under the
name Marina Gessner), has been acquired by HBOMax. Read more at
deadline.com/2021/06/the-distance-from-me-to-you-sabrina-carpenter-movie-new-
line-hbo-max-tiffany-paulsen-1234767497.
Melody Moezzi gave a keynote address on mental health advocacy for NAMI (National
Alliance on Mental Illness) Central Texas.
Also, she wrote the following op-eds:
• insidehighered.com/views/2021/06/08/colleges-failure-mandate-suicide-
prevention-training-ignorant-and-reckless-opinion
• nbcnews.com/think/opinion/college-admissions-season-let-s-end-odious-
racist-practice-recommendations-ncna1261570
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Emily Louise Smith has an essay in Hub City Writers Project: The First Twenty-Five Years
about her fellowship at the press and how the mentorship of founder Betsy Teter
helped inspire her own teaching, including the founding of Lookout Books. The essay
mentions four UNCW alums who studied publishing with Emily and went on to work for
Hub City: director Meg Reid, assistant director Kate McMullen, writer-in-residence
Corinne Manning, and press assistant Rachel Richardson. The collection also features
four of her covers for Hub City and highlights her role as one of their book designers.
She was also interviewed by CLMP for their publisher spotlight.
BFA student Sarah Faithe Jones’ essay “To Walk on Burning Embers” —written for
Melody Moezzi’s creative nonfiction course— was a finalist in the 2021 Albright Non-
Fiction prize from the North Carolina Literary Review.
Lia Nizen (BFA ’21) has work recently featured with the online literary magazine’s The
Raven’s Perch, and Anti-Heroin Chic, and the printed Capsule Stories 2021 Summer
Edition. She also has work in the just-announced anthology Preposition by Desiree
Dallagiacomo and is honored to be published alongside authors like Sabrina Benaim
and Desiree herself. Links to her book and current/upcoming publications can be found
through her website.
Yasmeen Owens (BFA ’21) has publications in Atlantis magazine, Seabreeze: A Literary
Diaspora, and The Rainbow Poems online literary magazine.
She is an associate editor in The Monarch Magazine and works as an academic coach at
TRIO, Upward Bound Program. Listen to her podcast “Melanin Girl Problem,” here.
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Luke Palmer’s (BFA ’22) short story “The Cathar’s Kiss” was recently published in the
horror anthology Off the Beaten Path 4 by Prospective Press.
MFA student Michael Colbert has the following new publications:
• ““The Leftovers” Is Teaching Me Who I Want to Be After Covid,” Electric Lit
• “RE: Your Mother, Your Aunt, and Baker and Brewer,” The Void, forthcoming
• “Dean of Students Speaks Out,” Kiddie Pool, forthcoming
• “34s,” BULL, forthcoming, July 2021
• “Mr. Anderson,” BULL, forthcoming, July 2021—honorable mention for the
Shorter Fiction Prize
• “Squirrel Ball,” The Racket, May 2021
• “Our Monsieur,” Press Pause Press Volume 4, April 2021
MFA student Jon Elofson sold a story to Southeast Review.
Abby Logue’s (MFA ’23) poem “The Shambler” appeared in the Nashville Review’s
Spring 2021 Issue.
Her two poems “Mother of Thousands (Devil’s Backbone)” and “An Undue Burden”
appeared in Issue 10 of The Shore.
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
MFA student Steven Vineis shares: “I wrote an essay about the band Propagandhi’s
seminal 1996 album “Less Talk, More Rock,” and all 4,000 words of it appear in
Brooklyn Vegan.”
Fairley Lloyd (BFA ’20) shares her most recent accomplishments:
—her flash fiction, “Common Sense,” was published in the first issue of Under the Wires
Magazine: underthewires.com/fairley-lloyd
—she is an editor for Giving Room Mag: givingroommag.com/masthead
—she is a contributing writer for Thought Catalog: thoughtcatalog.com/fairley-lloyd
Bo Miller (BFA ’20) shares: “I’ve been admitted to Johns Hopkins University for
graduate school. I will be in the MA in Writing program at the Kreiger School of Arts &
Sciences, at the main Homewood campus in my hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. My
concentration will be in non-fiction! Hopefully I’ll be able to have a live grad ceremony
this go round; either way, Ringo and I are ready to go!”
See a UNCW ‘We Are the Class of 2020’ feature video of Bo Miller here.
Chery Wilder’s (BFA ’05) poetry collection Anything That Happens, A Tom Lombardo
Poetry Selection (Press 53, 2021), was reviewed by D. Donovan at Midwest Book
Review and Susan E. Morris at Independent Book Review. From Donovan: "[Anything
That Happens is] a potent collection that invites readers to walk in Cheryl's shoes. And,
it provides traction for assessing and moving beyond poignant and powerful moments
of quiet desperation." And, from Morris: "The poems in Anything that Happens puzzle
together the emotions of life, fitting words into sharp, emotive slivers that pierce a
heart with empathy."
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Douglass Bourne (MFA ’09) was interviewed by Theatre Alaska's The Center in April. His
stage play, Robin Hood of Anchorage, was performed at the Valdez Theatre Festival at
the end of June.
Diana Clark’s (MFA ’19) piece “Boiling Point” was longlisted for the Ghost, Fable, and
Fractured Fairy Tale Prize through Fractured Literary. Their short story “Alice in
Wonderland Except Everyone’s a Venus Flytrap” will be published through Sword &
Kettle Press in the fall, while their micro flash “The Fathers” will be published in July
through Gingerbread House Lit Mag.
John Dailey’s (MFA ’19) tale of woodcock hunting in the Uwharrie National Forest, “It’s
a Little Like Golf,” appears in the July-August issue of Shooting Sportsman.
Daren Dean’s (MFA ’03) forthcoming Civil War novel, The Black Harvest, has a book
trailer. Watch at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onse-ObK9og.
Daren Dean is an Assistant Professor of English at Lincoln University of Missouri.
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Nicola DeRobertis-Theye’s (MFA ’14) debut novel The Vietri Project, published in
March, received a nice New York Times review by Joanna Rakoff.
Adam Gnuse's (MFA ’19) novel Girl in the Walls (Ecco & 4th Estate) was published this
past spring, debuting as a London Times bestseller. More of his writing has recently
appeared in The Guardian, Literary Hub, Largehearted Boy, and other venues. Also, he's
been fortunate to participate in author conversations with Clyde Edgerton, Taylor
Brown, Leah Hampton, and B. P. Walter and to hold interviews with Talking Scared
Podcast and New Orleans NPR's The Reading Life.
Summer D. Hammond’s (MFA ’19) “At the Top” was a finalist in fiction for the 2021
Rash Awards from Broad River Review, and will be published in late fall in their 2021
issue. “At the Top” was also longlisted for The Masters Review’s 2021 Winter Short
Story Award.
Her story “Mija” was published in Eunoia Review.
Her short story “Arrows” appears in Issue 49 of The Write Launch.
For the last three years, Chrissy Hennessey (MFA ’14) has been publishing “So
Relatable,” a craft-focused newsletter that offers inspiration, motivation, and
conversation as a way to cultivate a post-MFA community. Check out a recent issue
about how grocery shopping builds character here.
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Andy Keys’ (MFA ’21) poems “In North Carolina” and “Beach Posture” appear in
Twyckenham Notes, issue 13. His poem “Les dents du fond qui baignent” appears in
Thin Air Magazine, issue 27.
Keith Kopka’s (MFA ’11) book review of Popular Longing by Natalie Shapero is
published in Issue 113 of The Rupture.
Martha Lundin (MFA ’16) was a fellow at the 2021 Bread Loaf Environmental Writers
Workshop.
They have two essays coming out in the next few months:
“Picnic” is forthcoming in the June issue of Shenandoah literary magazine.
“Three Sisters” is forthcoming in Orion Magazine.
Cassie Mannes Murray (MFA ’21) recently published an essay “The Buddy System” in
Joyland Magazine.
Her new essay “Super Smash” in StoryQuarterly, chosen by T Kira Madden as first
runner-up for their nonfiction contest, got to share space with Nina DeGramont.
She is rounding out her first year as an acquiring literary agent and has sold five
projects already!
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Catey Miller’s (MFA ’15) short story “Sunday School” was a finalist for Ruminate
Magazine's 2021 William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and will be published in Ruminate
next year.
Jason Mott’s (MFA ’08) fourth novel Hell of a Book has
released with much acclaim from Penguin Random House.
Hell of a Book is the July Book Club pick from Jenna Bush
Hager on The Today Show. See the TV announcement here.
Ariana Nadia Nash (MFA ’11) and her husband Jacob welcomed their son Striker John
Sloan into the world on April 9. He is already an avid reader and will no doubt be
producing his own masterworks soon, having recently managed to say the word “guh.”
Katherine O'Hara (MFA ’21) has made it to the second round of interviews for an
assistant editor role at HarperCollins. While she does not yet know the outcome, she is
forever grateful for the opportunity and their consideration.
She also has two poems from her novel manuscript (MFA thesis) available in print
in Artemis Journal 2021 and NELLE Issue 4. An additional poem, unrelated to the
manuscript, is forthcoming from YES Poetry."
News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Katie Prince (MFA '15) has a new poem, "the brain as seascape" in issue 45.1 of Cream
City Review.
Aurora Shimshak (MFA ’18) had two poems in the winter solstice issue of Canary.
She will begin an MFA in poetry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the fall.
Aurora was interviewed by WHQR about being a UNCW Graduate Fellow in Operations
in their “Where Are They Now?” series.
Laura Price Steele's short story “Marrow is the Bone” was selected as runner-up in the
2021 Saints+Sinners Fiction Contest and will be published in the forthcoming
Saints+Sinners Fiction Anthology 2021.
Her essay “The Unknowing” will be published in the July 2021 issue of The Sun.
She also recently accepted a position as a content writer for Submittable in Missoula,
MT.
Anna B. Sutton (MFA ’13) shares, “My book, Savage Flower,
which won the 2019 St. Lawrence Book Prize, publishes on
July 1 from Black Lawrence Press. I've also been working as a
LCMHC-intern at Lifeologie Raleigh and will be presenting on
mental health and the writing life throughout my book tour.
In August, I'll be Vermont Studio Center's featured artist for
their Writers on the Rise series.”News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Caitlin Rae Taylor’s (MFA ’18) short story “When to Have Your Period” was published in
March 2021 with Cotton Xenomorph. It was also selected by author Hannah Greico for
Bending Genre's "Fave Five" series as one of Greico's favorite new pieces for the month
of March.
Caitlin has also begun editing “The Midnight Snack,” a food writing column for Press
Pause Press.
The essay "”Rat King and the Waitoreke” by Elizabeth Dodd, which Caitlin edited for
Southern Humanities Review, was named as a Notable Essay in Best American Essays
2020.
Stephanie C. Trott (MFA ’17) shares, “I recently received a grant from the
Massachusetts Cultural Council to fund an environmental community writing project in
Fairhaven, Massachusetts. For the next six months, I'll be providing biweekly virtual
instruction and writing mentorship to more than 25 residents ages 14+; between
meetings, participants will visit assigned and accessible outdoor locations in town and
will write first-hand observations and reflections. Each participant will contribute an
original work to be published in a community anthology (designed by Caitlin Rae Taylor,
MFA ’18) and will have the opportunity to read their writing at a corresponding launch
event in December.”
Matt Thies (MFA ’20) shares the following updates: “I'm working at nCino as a technical
writer, I'm currently the managing editor at Fjords Literary Journal, and most exciting of
all, my band Open Wire is currently in the studio recording our first vinyl LP, Just
Dangerous.”
Emily Paige Wilson’s (MFA ’16) poem “Amplified Pain” appears in the latest issue of
The Florida Review.News & Accolades – 2021.Q2 (APR, MAY, JUN)
Philip Gerard is a feature writer for Our State magazine, covering a new installment of
the Decades Series each month with an article about the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s.
See more at ourstate.com/topics/arts-culture/history/decades-series.You can also read
