BOOK SALE!

Graduate Literary Organization is sponsoring:

the annual, fabulous, super fantastic BOOK SALE

next week!

NH room 407!

Cheapppppp!!! Hardbacks $1, paperbacks $.50

There's no better deal than that!

Drop by and buy our books. Fill your brain with knowledge and entertainment!

Wednesday 5/27, 10 - 3

Thursday 5/28, 12-4

Friday 5/29, 10-3

Kellogg Award Finalists and Winners!

The Kellogg Committee is pleased to announce the award finalists and winners for this year's English Department writing awards. Please join us to celebrate their achievements at the 45th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Award Ceremony, to be held in the Native American Student and Community Center on Tuesday June 2nd.

Ceremonies will commence with the Kellogg Lecture by Emily Powell of Powell's Books at 3:30, awards at 4:30, and a reception to follow at the Simon Benson House.

Finalists are listed in alphabetical order, with award winners noted by an asterisk:


THE ACADEMY OF AMERICAN POETS AWARD
Carolyn Brazda
Kenneth Crockett
Regina Godfrey*

THE TOM BATES ESSAY AWARD
Alexandra Behr*
Jocelyn Brady
Haili Graff

TOM BATES AWARD for MEMOIR
Haili Graff
Janice Kurtz
Twila Nesky*

TOM BATES AWARD for REPORTING
Alexandra Behr
Kyle Cassidy*
Doug Cornett

THE TOM and PHYLLIS BURNAM UNDERGRADUATE FICTION AWARD
Melinda Crouchley
Melinda McCamant*
Matthew Silva

THE TOM and PHYLLIS BURNAM UNDERGRADUATE NONFICTION AWARD
Matthew Silva
Jonathan Sturgeon*
Jason Zoesch

THE TOM and PHYLLIS BURNAM GRADUATE FICTION AWARD
Megan Chuprevich
Cornelia Coleman*
Kelsey McCune

THE TOM and PHYLLIS BURNAM UNDERGRADUATE POETRY AWARD
Bryan Beck
Sharon Murphy*

THE TOM and PHYLLIS BURNAM GRADUATE POETRY AWARD
Michael Achterman*
Michael Aspros
Christopher Cottrell

THE FRANK ANDREW CLARKE and HELEN CLARKE MEMORIAL AWARD
Bryan Beck
Patrick Beisell*
Jennifer Howell

THE TOM DOULIS GRADUATE FICTION AWARD
Alexandra Behr
Leslie Gould
Helen Trickey*

THE MARILYN FOLKESTAD UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Carla Shetzline*

THE MARILYN FOLKESTAD GRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP
Rita Stacy*
Wendy Noonan

THE PHILLIP FORD GRADUATE AWARD
Alexis Butzner*
Erin Smith

THE GIVING BACK FELLOWSHIP
Lisa Ekman*
Eric Gold*

THE NINA MAE KELLOGG SOPHOMORE AWARD
Andrew Attana
Giovanna Marrone
Elizabeth Yandel*

THE NINA MAE KELLOGG SENIOR AWARD
Bryan Beck*
Joel Caris
Melinda McCamant

THE JOHN REDMAN FRESHMAN WRITING AWARD
Jazmine Alzado*

THE SHELLEY REECE AWARD for POETRY
Christopher Cottrell*
Wendy Noonan


Congratulations to all our award finalists and recipients!


Best regards,
The Kellogg Committee
(Paul Collins, Joel Bettridge, & Thomas Fisher)

The Giving Back Fellowship!

The Giving Back Fellowship is a monetary award that supports students in Portland State University's MFA program in nonfiction writing during their second year in the program. It is based on both need and overall achievement. Funding for the Fellowship comes from former and current students in the nonfiction program who "give back" to help those coming along behind them, as well as donations from family members and outside donors. Most of the student donations have been doubled through a matching pledge.

(Note: I'd like to extend the Fellowship opportunity to fiction and possibly poetry students in the future, if funds can be found.)

If you are able to contribute something, however small, or if you know of someone who might want to contribute, please contact me at mcgregor@pdx.edu.

Or, to simply make a contribution, you can send a check to: Michael McGregor, c/o English Dept., Portland State University, Box 751, Portland, OR 97207-0751. The check should be made out to "PSU Foundation" and should have "Giving Back Fellowship" on the subject line.

You can also contribute online through the PSU Foundation. Here's the link: https://www.foundation.pdx.edu/publicgift/publicgiftone.jsp. Be sure to check the last box, "Other," and write in "Giving Back Fellowship--English Department."

All donations are tax-deductible and, if the giver resides in Oregon, eligible for the Cultural Trust program, which allows those who give an equal amount to the Cultural Trust to take 100% of this second donation off their state taxes. See the Cultural Trust Web site for details: http://www.culturaltrust.org/donate/donate_and_receive_your_tax_credit.php.


Thank you for any help you can give,

Michael McGregor
Associate Professor
Nonfiction & Fiction Writing
English Department
Portland State University

"Pathos" Call for submissions!!

We accept poetry, fiction, memoir, personal essays, articles, one-act plays and visual art.

You must be

A student at Portland State.

Your work must be

Previously unpublished.

15 pages/4,500 words or less.

A visual art submission

May be a photograph, painting, illustration, or other media. Please, no comics.

Attach to email as a .jpg or .bmp file.

A writing submission

Should be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman.

Please use Microsoft Word or another common word processor (Wordpad, Notepad).

Submit

Up to five works of writing. We will publish up to three per issue from the same student. There is no limit on the number of art submissions.

Email all submissions to pathos@pdx.edu.

"Boston Review" Contest!! deadline June 1

Contests

Please note: neither e-mailed submissions nor submissions processed via the online submission system will be accepted for any of the contests. Entries must be sent by mail.

Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest (Deadline June 1st 2009)

Seventeenth Annual Short-Story Contest (Deadline Oct. 1st 2009)

"Discovery"/Boston Review 2009 Poetry Contest, with the Unterberg Poetry Center/92nd Street Y

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Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest

Deadline: June 1, 2009
Judge: Rae Armantrout
First Prize: $1,500

Complete guidelines:
The winning poet will receive $1,500 and have his or her work published in the November/December 2009 issue of Boston Review. Submit up to five unpublished poems, no more than 10 pages total. Any poet writing in English is eligible, unless he or she is a current student, former student, or close personal friend of the judge. Manuscripts must be submitted in duplicate, with a cover note listing the author's name, address, and phone number; names should not be on the poems themselves. Simultaneous submissions are not permitted. Submissions will not be returned. A $20 entry fee ($30 for international submissions), payable to Boston Review, must accompany all submissions. Submissions must be postmarked no later than June 1, 2009. All entrants will receive a one-year subscription to Boston Review, beginning with the November/December 2009 issue. The winner will be announced no later than November 1, 2009, on the Boston Review Web site. All poems submitted to the contest will be considered for publication in the Boston Review. Send entries to:

Poetry Contest, Boston Review,
35 Medford St., Suite 302,
Somerville, MA 02143

Read winning poems from past years:
Sarah Arvio (2008)
Elizabeth Willis (2007)
Marc Gaba (2006)
Mike Perrow (2005)
Michael Tod Edgerton [PDF] (2004)
Susan Wheeler (2003)
Max Winter (2002)
D.A. Powell (2001)
Christopher Edgar (2000)
Stephanie Strickland (1999)
Daniel Bosch (1998)

For more poetry in Boston Review, click here.

Kellogg Awards!

We are pleased to announce the 45th Annual Nina Mae Kellogg Awards. Finalists and award recipients will be announced later this month; please join us next month for our celebration of student writing achievement:

Tues. June 2nd 2009
The Native American Student and Community Center
(corner of SW Broadway & Jackson)

3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
The 2009 Kellogg Lecture by Emily Powell of Powell's Books

4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Student Awards

A reception will follow at the Simon Benson House, and all events are free and open to the public.

Graduate Readings: Tuesday and Wednesday!!

Come hear your friends and peers read from their work!  

Poets read Tuesday, May 5th, 7 PM.  Blackfish Gallery, 420 NW 9th Ave.

Readers include:Michael Achterman, Wendy Bourgeois, Kate Bucko, Chris Cottrell, Regina Godfrey, and Wendy Noonan.

Fiction and Non-Fiction writers read on Wednesday, May 6th, 7 PM, Blackfish Gallery.

Readers include: Bob Balmer, Amber Beaman, Alex Behr, Meg Chuprevich, Leslie Gould, Haili Graff, Ron Horton, Merilee Karr, Julie Leonard, Twila Nesky, Mario Ross, Jenny Tatone, Helyn Trickey, and Lora Worden.

Non-Fiction Residency: Penn State Altoona--deadline May 18

Penn State Altoona. The English Program is taking applications for a one-semester teaching residency in creative non-fiction writing. The residence, designed to offer an emerging writer substantial time to write, offers a $5,000 stipend & an additional $5,000 allowance to cover room & board in return for teaching one sophomore-level creative non-fiction writing workshop during the Fall 2009 semester (August 24-December 17). The resident writer will also give two readings & work informally with our English majors. Benefits are not included. We are looking for a writer with publications in literary or commercial magazines. Emphasis will be placed on the quality of the work submitted. We may consider a preference for work focused on environmental studies. A Master's degree in Creative Writing or English is required. Teaching experience is preferred. The application should consist of a writing sample (one essay or ten pages from a book); a c.v., including publishing history; & one or more letters of recommendation.  Send to: Emerging Writer Residency, Dr. Thomas Liszka, Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts, Pos #: B-29761, Penn State Altoona, 3000 Ivyside Park, Altoona, PA 16601-3760.  Review of applications will begin May 18, & continue until the position is filled. For additional information about Penn State Altoona, please visit our web page athttp://www. altoona.psu. edu. AA/EOE

Reading: Brenda Miller--May 14th, 7:30 PM

Prose writer Brenda Miller will read from her newest collection of essays, Blessings of the Animals, at Marylhurst University on May 14th at 7:30, in the Old Library. All are welcome, please come join us for this reading.

Brenda's new collection includes two Pushcart Prize winning essays (“Blessing of the Animals” and “Raging Waters”). Her essay, "Table of Figures," was selected for inclusion in The Best Creative Nonfiction, Vol. 3, to be published in 2009 by W.W. Norton.  Brenda Miller is the author of Season of the Body (Sarabande Books, 2002) and co-author of Tell it Slant: Writing and Shaping Creative Nonfiction (McGraw-Hill, 2003). Her work has received five Pushcart Prizes and has been published in many journals, including Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, The Sun, Utne Reader, The Georgia Review, and The Missouri Review.

Miller is an Associate Professor of English at Western Washington University and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Bellingham Review.

To hear an excellent interview with Brenda Miller about Creative Nonfiction go to:

http://www.creativenonfiction.org/brevity/craft.htm

Writers in the Schools--Upcoming readings

Info: http://www.literary-arts.org/wits/

Writers in the Schools
Writers in the Schools (WITS) is a comprehensive program that cultivates young writers and supports Oregon authors through semester-long writing residencies in the Portland public high schools. WITS employs poets, fiction writers, essayists and playwrights to engage students in reading and writing across the curriculum.


UPCOMING STUDENT READINGS

Franklin High School
Wed., May 6 at 7:30pm
BiPartisan Café
7901 SE Stark Street
Writers: Hunt Holman & Kirsten Rian

Lincoln High School
Thur., May 14 at 4:00pm
City Bean
1215 SW 16th Ave.
Writers: Turiya Autry &
Carson Cistulli

Marshall Campus Schools
Mon. May 18 at 6:45 PM
Midland Library
805 SE 122 Avenue
Writer: Cindy Williams
Gutierrez & Natalie Serber

Roosevelt Campus Schools
Tue., May 19 at 7:00 PM
Ladybug Organic Coffee Co.
8438 N Lombard Street
Writers: Carmen Bernier-Grand, Emma Oliver &
JoNelle Toriseva

Jefferson High School
Wed., May 20 at 4:30 PM
Talking Drum Café
446 NE Killingsworth
Writers: Raphael Dagold & Laura Moulton

Non-Fiction Chapbook Contest--deadline May 31

2nd Annual Non-fiction Chapbook Contest
http://allnationspress.homestead.com/submissions.html

First Prize: $1000 plus publication
$15 dollar entry fee, payable ONLINE or by mail
DEADLINE May 31ST 2009
40 pages of text max
any format is fine
email entry to

(replace (at) with @)



or mail them to
Chapbook Contest
ANP
PO BOX 689
White Marsh, VA 23183