Fellowship and Grant Deadlines:
*Provincetown Fine Arts Center 2009-2010 Writing Fellowship*: Deadline is December 1. The Fine Arts Work Center offers a unique residency for writers and visual artists in the crucial early stages of their careers. Located in Provincetown, an area with a long history as an arts colony, the Work Center provides seven-month fellowships to twenty fellows each year in the form of living/work space and a modest monthly stipend. Residencies run from October 1 through May 1. http://www.fawc.org/winter/applications.shtml
*AWP Award Series*. Deadline: Entries must be postmarked between Jan. 1 and Feb. 28, 2009. The competition is open to all authors writing in English regardless of nationality or residence. The *Donald Hall Prize for Poetry* is an award of $4,000 and publication for the best book-length manuscript of poetry. This competition is open to published and unpublished poets alike. The *Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction* awards the winner $4,000 and publication. Winners in the novel and creative nonfiction categories receive a $2,000 cash honorarium from AWP and publication. Please visit http://www.awpwriter.org/contests/series.htm for more information.
Publications
Katie Leo has an article published in the November 26th issue of Minnesota Women's Press that examines international adoption through the lens of feminism. You can find it online at www.womenspress.com.
Thomas Cook will have one poem "Love" appear in the next Columbia Poetry Review and two poems about the goats of northeastern Spain appear in the next Georgetown Review. His chapbook Anemic Cinema is now on sale from Horse Less Press.
MFA alum Josh Wallaert has three stories soon to be published: "The Falling" in The Gettysburg Review; "That Field, The One They Went Looking For" in Black Warrior Review; and "Forty Thieves" in American Letters & Commentary.
(First Year MFA) Molly Sutton Kiefer's poem "Beekeeping" will appear in Wicked Alice (an online literary journal) in the next issue: http://www.sundress.net/wickedalice/
MFA alumna Emily Bright has poetry appearing in two anthologies: Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press, fall 2008) and Beloved on this Earth: 150 Poems of Grief and Gratitude (Holy Cow press, spring 2009).
MFA alum ('04) Karen Rigby has poems forthcoming in Bat City Review, Meridian, Quarterly West, Canteen, and Carte Blanche.
MFA '04 grad Laurie Lindeen's memoir Petal Pusher will be released in paperback.
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