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____________________________________________________________________Creative Writing Newsletter
Fall 2005
Department of English
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN 47809
(812)237-3160
www.indstate.edu/english/
STUDENT NEWS
Dean’s List
Spring 2005
Megan Anderson Chad Bebee
Jonathan Burns Rachael Bush
Joshua Flowers John Hutchison
Jonathan Hueber Jamie Luna
Kiel Majewski Jared Sexton
Robin Smith
Contests and Awards
Howard McMillen Fiction Award
This year’s winners of the fiction contest sponsored by Arion are the following:
1st place: Nathan Howard, for his short story “Out and About.”
2nd place: Kyle Hughes, for his story “Becoming.”
3rd place: Travis Bicker, for his short story “Fallen.”
Arion, the Student Creative Writing Club
Arion members have voted to change the name of the club’s annual literary magazine The Dolphin back to its original title, Tonic, which published its premiere issue in spring 1976. Tonic is now taking submissions of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. See their website at arion-isu.org for specific information or email Lowell at ltorres@mymail.indstate.edu.
Arion’s officials for 2005-2006 are Lowell Torres, President; Jessica Dyer, Vice President; Joe Donahue, Secretary. The faculty co-sponsors are Professors Doug Martin and Aaron Morales.
General
Graduate students currently writing creative theses (English 699) or creative projects (English 698) include Justin Bauserman (poetry), Sarah Strecker (mystery novel), Samantha Myers (novel), Jessica Schmidt (stories and poems). Angela LaVallie is writing a creative nonfiction essay (English 692).
Several students have had their poems published in the most recent issue of The Journal for the Liberal Arts and Sciences (vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 53-54), which is edited by Dr. David Gilman, a professor in the College of Education. Sarah Long and Lamora Delp each contributed two poems and Kiel Majewski and Daniel Robert Jordan one.
Jessica Dyer is Editor-in-Chief of ISU’s IQ magazine.
In addition to his poem in The Journal for the Liberal Arts, Daniel Jordan, a junior and a new CW minor, has just released with his band, The Red Racer, a CD titled No One Can Hurt You. This summer they’ll perform on a four-state tour.
Kyley Hedges, a senior CW minor, has two of her emulsion transfer/photographs – “Hayden” and “Which Way Home” - on display till Dec. 1 in this year’s “State of the Arts Exhibition” in the Dede Activity Center Lounge.
Kyle Hughes won the Creative and Performing Arts Scholarship and is a new CW minor.
ALUMNI NEWS
Brian Beatty (BS ’92) performed stand-up comedy at the Improv in Hollywood. The showcase at the historic club helped promote the recently published humor anthology Squeaky Clean Comedy (Andrews McMeel), which includes his work alongside samples from George Carlin, Ellen DeGeneres, and David Letterman. Another new collection, The Comedy Thesaurus, features Brian’s stage material. Brian works as a writer for Larsen Design and Interactive in Minneapolis. [b.beatty@larsen.com]
John Colvin (BS ’89, MA ’91) has just published a story in Word Riot (www.wordriot.org). The story is called “Plague of Statues.” [oddjohn@hotmail.com]
Josh Green (BS ‘02) was accepted into the MA program in English at U. of Indianapolis but has delayed his enrollment to pursue full-time feature writing for The Daily Sun, which is based in Lebanon, IN, with a bureau in Zionsville. For one series of articles he accompanied a trucker carrying supplies to victims of Katrina in Mississippi. [jgvienna@hotmail.com]
Sandra Kirby (MA ‘87) died at age 58 on May 31, 2005. She suffered from ALS, Lou Gehrig’s disease. She wrote the first creative thesis in poetry and published several of her poems. Besides serving as an assistant librarian at Vigo County Public Library, she conducted creative writing workshops at the Swope Art Museum and taught as an instructor in the English Department at ISU. Tonic 4 (spring 1983) contains four of her poems, including “Express Line”:
blue cardboarded cheer
red canned dash
yellow plastic joy
jostling about with
packaged chicken backs
feet of pigs jarred and pickled
and rump of steer to roast,
civilization rattles on.
the hunter’s loincloth
disguised as fruit of the loom
buried beneath a layer of propriety
spear shriveled to an ignition key
he waits immobile at 8 Items or Less
Dawn Leamon Maxson (MA ’89) is now technical publications manager at Sun Microsystems. [dawn.maxson@sun.com] Her husband, Roger Maxson (BS ‘87), was named a finalist and was invited to participate in the Chicago Indiefest this July and August for a script he wrote. [rd_maxson@hotmail.com]
FACULTY NEWS
Matt Brennan’s poem “Summer of ‘36” recently appeared in Paterson Literary Review while other poems are forthcoming in Concho River Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, and Blue Unicorn. [mbrennan@indstate.edu]
Brendan Corcoran delivered a paper titled “Gathering and Casting: Heaney’s Hughes” at the Fifth International Ted Hughes Conference at Emory U. on October 6 and reprised the presentation at Always on Friday on November 4. [ejcorcoran@isugw.indstate.edu]
Michael Harrold has stepped down from his position as associate editor of Indiana English to pursue other professional interests. [ejharr@isugw.indstate.edu]
Mark Lewandowski’s short story “The Silent Fall” has been nominated by the editor of The Florida Review for a Pushcart Prize. It appeared in the journal’s spring 2005 issue. Another previously published work, his essay “Risk” from the Jabberwock Review is listed as a “Notable essay “ in The Best American Essays: 2005. [mlewandowsk@isugw.indstate.edu]
Doug Martin, who joined the Department this fall as an assistant professor, will be listed in the 2005-2006 edition of the Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers. He has poetry forthcoming in Poetry Harbor, and in addition his band, Delicious Militia, has just released their new CD, Wigglin’. On December 2 Doug will read his poems at Always on Friday. [dougmartin832@yahoo.com]
Aaron Morales, the Department’s other new assistant professor in creative writing, has work forthcoming in Another Chicago Magazine and Indiana English. The fall reading celebrating the release of Another Chicago Magazine issue 46, appropriately held in Chicago, featured Aaron. [amorales@isugw.indstate.edu]
PUBLIC READINGS
Creative Writing Committee Fall Reading
The fall reading was held November 9 at the Coffee Grounds. Readers included Sarah Long, Doug Martin, Brendan Corcoran, Jessi Hollingsworth, Jessica Mitchell, Kyley Hedges, Khrys Dagam, Sharon Earl, Mark Minster, Jessica Dyer, Brent Pulliam, and Matt Brennan. The em cee was Aaron Morales.
Arion Fall Reading
Arion sponsored a reading on Halloween, October 31, at the Sycamore Lounge in the student union. Readers were Doug Martin, Jessica Dyer, Mark Minster, Jessica Mitchell, and Lowell Torres. Sarah Long’s band, the Cornfederates, ended the event with their original brand of cowpunk songs.
Friends of the Library Reading
The Friends of the Library, with the Creative Writing Program, will host a reading at Cunningham Memorial Library on November 30 at 6 p.m. in the Browsing Area. Featured readers are new creative writing faculty members Doug Martin and Aaron Morales and students Khristopher Dagam and Sarah Long.
VISITING WRITERS
On November 15 novelist Russell Banks, author of such works as Affliction and the Sweet Hereafter, appeared at ISU as part of the University Speakers Series.
SCHEDULE OF CLASSES
Spring 2006
A. Morales 219: Intro to Creative Writing TTh 11:00
D. Martin 219: Intro to Creative Writing MWF 10:00
M. Lewandowski 219: Intro to Creative Writing MWF 12:00
M. Lewandowski 220/324/424/524: Fiction TTh 9:30
A. Morales 220/324/424/524: Fiction TTh 2:00
D. Martin 221/325/424/524: Poetry TTh 3:30
CREATIVE WRITING FUND
Please consider making a tax-deductible donation of any amount to the program’s Creative Writing Fund. Several years ago we lost our annual budget allowance from the University and to afford visiting writers we must rely on the generosity of our faculty, alums, and friends.
Contributions should indicate “Creative Writing Program” on the memo line of your check and be sent to: ISU Foundation, Indiana State U., Terre Haute, IN 47809.
The students and faculty thank you for your generosity.
CREATIVE WRITING LIBRARY
The ISU Creative Writing Committee is busy collecting books and journals for a small library in A-270 of Root Hall. If you have any books or journals you would like to part with, please send them our way.
We are also interested in documenting the history of creative writing at ISU. We would like to collect some of the following items: 1) copies of old CW Newsletters; 2) fliers, video and audio tapes, and news clippings of past readings and award ceremonies of students and visiting writers; and 3) copies of published work by graduates of the program.
Send all materials to: Doug Martin, Curator / Creative Writing Library / Dept. of English / Indiana State U. / Terre Haute, IN 47809.
PLEASE KEEP IN TOUCH
We want to hear your news and to keep home addresses and email addresses current, so please keep us informed. We welcome any news - professional, literary, or personal. We welcome all of you to the biannual readings as well. Send info to: mbrennan@isugw.indstate.edu OR ejmad@isugw.indstate.edu
posted by Doug Martin @ 11:56 AM
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