Recommended Reading

Check out this essay, by one of my once-upon-a-time students, Megan Kruse, in Narrative magazine (log in required, but it's free).

Recommended Reading

Sara Femenella, one of my former students (from almost ten years ago...good grief), has a terrific poem in the current issue of The Normal School. I like the Normal School not just for their great content but because each issue costs five dollars, which seems to me a rational price for a literary magazine. You should buy your issue now.

Recommended Reading

My former student, MR Sheffield has a wonderful short-short in the latest issue of Spring Gun. Click on the e-book. The story is on page thirty-three. This mag is visually interesting but a bit of a challenge to negotiate!

Recommended Reading

One of my graduate students has a short story (or prose poem, whatever) in Pindeldyboz. I like any story with a Ringo Starr reference.

Recommended Reading

One of my former FAU undergrads, Shaun Hutchinson, has published a young adult novel with Simon & Schuster:
Deathday Letter. A nice reminder that your best bet for a writing community is your classmates (not your teacher), and that CRW 3010 students are often serious business. And while I'm here, a shout out to the very first person I met in my first fiction workshop back when I was a college freshman, Alexander Woo, now an award-winning writer for the oh-so-popular True Blood.

p.s. In case you haven't noticed, the blog is pretty much on hiatus until further notice (read: when I feel like it).

Recommended Reading

One of my graduate students has a story published in the current Grey Sparrow Journal. Check it out.

Recommended Reading

One of my former undergraduates is doing a (second) tour in Iraq and blogging about it:

http://theexodusblog.blogspot.com/

Movies for Writers

One of my graduate students has started a blog that I imagine readers of this blog will appreciate:

http://moviesforwriters.blogspot.com/

My Students Make Me Proud

Brevity has announced on their website that the essay "Why" by FAU MFA grad Kathrine Leone Wright has been selected by Dzanc Book for The Best of the Web 2009 (available in late June).

Regular readers will recall that's a piece of Kathrine's thesis essay.

Unlikely 2.0

Check out this short story by FAU MFA student Dan Kennard:

Waiting for Calvin.