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Recent, forthcoming publications, conference presentations from students, faculty, alumni
Red Dragonfly Press to hold 15th anniversary
Recent, forthcoming publications, conference presentations from students, faculty, alumni
Spring 2011
Megan Baule: will read from her work in a presentation titled "Writing the Landscape: A Female Perspective" at the Red River Graduate Student Conference March 25-26 at NDSU.
Kevin Carollo: poem, "I Live Near Bittner," in the January issue of MAKE: A Chicago Literary Magazine; poem, "Collateral," one of 14 finalists for The New Guard Literary Review's Knightville Poetry Prize and nominated for a Pushcart Prize; review of Dave Eggers' It is Right to Draw Their Fur: Animal Renderings in Rain Taxi Review of Books.
Ryan Christiansen: flash fiction piece titled "His Bank Account Bled" has been accepted for publication in issue nine of The Driftwood Review. His flash fiction piece "A War Veteran in Diapers" has been accepted for publication in Glossolalia. His flash fiction piece "The Blower" has been accepted for publication in the spring issue of Big City Lit. His flash fiction piece "Autumn Blew In" has been accepted for publication in San Antonio Current. He has also been invited to speak at the Red River Graduate Student Conference March 25-26 at NDSU. His presentation is titled "After the Apocalypse: How Print is a Dead Medium and Why You Might as well Get Used to it."
Alan Davis: In January 2011 will present on "Using 'Sparkplug' Characters to Energize Fiction" at Fairfield University's low residency MFA program during its bi-annual residency period at Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut. His new collection of short stories, So Bravely Vegetative, the winner of the Prize Americana for Fiction 2010, has been published by Press Americana on its Hollywood Books International imprint.
Bob Jansen: Co-authored former North Dakota Governor George Sinner's memoir titled Turning Points, published by the Dakota Institute in partnership with the University of Oklahoma Press.
Tiegen Kosiak: flash fiction piece titled "Ella & the Elephant" has been accepted for publication in the Spring 2011 issue of Hot Metal Bridge at the University of Pittsburgh, scheduled to go live April 4, 2011. Her poem "In August" has been accepted for publication in a forthcoming issue of Compass Rose, the literary journal of Chester College of New England.
Brooke Kramer: will read from her work in a presentation titled "Writing the Landscape: A Female Perspective" at the Red River Graduate Student Conference March 25-26 at NDSU.
Deb Mercier: Her new book titled "Wrestling with a Werewolf," co-authored with Ryan Jacobson and illustrated by Diana Nock, is scheduled for publication this fall by Getchu Books, an imprint of Lake 7 Creative. The book is a chapter book aimed at readers in the 3rd to 5th grade levels.
Andrew Olson: short story, "Razorburn," will appear in the February print edition of Down in the Dirt Magazine (Vol. 91). His short story "Barn Stripping" has bee accepted for publication in the March 25 issue of The Linnet's Wings. His short story "Chalk Crosses" will be published in the 12th issue of fiction by Leaf Garden Press. He has been invited to present his critical essay on James Joyce's Ulysses entitled "Joyce's Circus Pig: The Act of Leopold 'Ruby' Bloom in Ulysses' 'Circe'" at the Red River Graduate Student Conference March 25-26 at NDSU. Also, he has been invited to present his critical essay on James Joyce's Ulysses entitled "Joyce's Circus Pig: The Act of Leopold 'Ruby' Bloom in Ulysses' 'Circe'" at the 2011 American Conference for Irish Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in April.
Jennifer Phillips: poem, "Astronomical Rabbit," will appear in the Jan. 13 issue of Phantom Kangaroo. Her article "The Brain: The Real Secret Behind Alternate Sensory Technology" has been published as a ProQuest Discovery Guide.
Thom Tammaro: The University of Iowa Press released Thom Tammaro (MFA Program, English) and Sheila Coghill’s (English, MLA Program) new anthology, Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William Carlos Williams. This is the fifth anthology in the series established by Tammaro and Coghill. They were also featured speakers at the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Mass., April 1-2, for the kick-off of Amherst’s “Big Read” event.
Fall 2010
Alan Davis: won the Prize Americana for Fiction 2010 for So Bravely Vegetative. It will be published by Hollywood Books International in December 2010 or January 2011. He also served from Oct. 6-8, 2010 as a writer-in-residence at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN, and read on Oct. 28, 2010, at the Marshall Writing Conference: A Celebration of Rural Writing and Culture, hosted by Southwest Minnesota State University.
Andrew Olson: A flash fiction piece, "Ask the Milkman" in Weirdyear.
Summer 2010
Alan Davis: In July 2010, delivered a presentation on "How Do We Tell a Story: Building Scenes and Stories Using Objects" at Fairfield University's low residency MFA program during its bi-annual residency period at Enders Island, off the coast of Mystic, Connecticut.
John Powers: Poem, "Having Noticed the Bend of Your Lip," published in Issue 3 of Breakwater Review.
Spring 2010
Megan Baule: Presentation, "Rural Interpretations: Connections between Perspectives and Landscape," at the Red River Graduate Student Conference, NDSU, March 27, 2010.
Kevin Carollo: A remembrance of J.G. Ballard (who wrote Crash and Empire of the Sun) was published in the Winter 2010 print edition of Rain Taxi. Also, two poems, "Global Igloo" and "Forever, Underwater" in the April issue of Ellipsis.
Ryan C. Christiansen: Presentation, "Skatterball," at the Red River Graduate Student Conference, NDSU, March 27, 2010.
John Early: Poem, "Christ, the Weather," in Flurry.
Nate Logan: Presentation, "Talking Passionately About a Potato Chip for Forty Minutes: Truth in Surrealistic Humor," at the Red River Graduate Student Conference, NDSU, March 27, 2010.
Dan Nygard: Three poems, "At Dad's House in The Country," "Highway 75 Elegy," and "Out in The Woods," as well as an interview in Volume 14 of Emprise Review.
Andrew Olson: Presentation, "Exile of the Deformed: 'Freaks' in Donoso's The Obscene Bird of Night and Dunn's Geek Love," at the University of St. Thomas, April 23, 2010; presentation, "Tyler Durden is Not Here: The Jungian Shadow in Palahniuk's Fight Club," at the Red River Graduate Student Conference, NDSU, March 27, 2010; presentation, "The Personal Myth and Authority of Neurotics: A Character Analysis of Stephen Dedalus and Quentin Compson," at the 2nd Annual Celtic Crawl, Plains Art Museum, March 11, 2010.
Becca Owen: Two short stories, "Only Child" and "First Chair" in the January issue of Midwest Literary Magazine.
Fall 2009
Kevin Carollo: A review of Nobel Laureate J.M.G. Le Clezio's "Desert" (originally published in 1980 and available in English for the first time this year) in the Fall 2009 edition of Rain Taxi.
Tiegen Kosiak: Three poems, "The Safety of Gravel", "Flowers", and "Cigarette Smoke" in the madswirl online poetry forum and also the poem "Royalty Circa 1980" in Read This.
Summer 2009
Mark Vinz: Short story, "Moving," in the Summer 2009 edition of South Dakota Review.
Spring 2009
Kevin Carollo: Poem, "Gumption and Druthers" winner of the 2009 Beau Boudreaux Poetry Prize was selected by poet Arielle Greenberg along with a $1,000 dollar prize and will be published in Cream City Review.
Fall 2008
Diana Goble: Diana will have a short story appearing in the April 2009 issue of Main Street Rag; Main Street Rag Webpage
Nathan Logan: Poem, "Let The Wookie Win," in Superficial Flesh, October 2008; Read It Here; also Poem, "Standard Operating Procedure," in SIR! Magazine, Nov. 2008; (Click on thesecond-to-last head on the bottom row when you: Read it Here
Mike Schlemper: Poem and Artwork, Art of Recovery Website; Read & View Here
Spring 2008
Erik P. Block: a poem, "Read Carefully," in Conceit Magazine, July 2008; a short story, "On the Birth of her First Child," in The Emerson Review.
Nathan Logan: an essay, "Slam Poetry: Tearing Down the Tower of Shakespeare," in Lost at Sea, February 2008; two book reviews in Galatea Resurrects #9, March 2008.
Becca Owen: Essay, "The Sport of Kings," in Oregon Quarterly Northwest Perspectives, which won in the student category and received an honorable mention in the Maisonneuve Magazine: Summer Literary Seminar Contest. Summer 2008.