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FACULTY
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WENDY BARKER
(Poet in Residence)
Author of numerous collections of poetry, including Poems from Paradise (2005), Way of Whiteness (2000), Let the Ice Speak (1991), and Winter Chickens (1990), as well as two chapbooks, Eve Remembers (1996) and Between Frames (2006) |
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NORMA ELIA CANTŮ
Author of the award-winning Caněcula Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (New Mexico, 1995 and 2000) and editor of the book series, Rio Grande/Rio Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Tradition, at Texas A&M University Press. |
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CATHERINE KASPER
Author of Field Stone, winner of the Winnow Press First Book Prize (2004), A Gradual Disappearance of Insects (poetry, Pecan Grove, 2004), Optical Projections (short stories, Obscure Publications, 2004), and Blueprints of the City (Transparent Tiger Press, 2000). |
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BONNIE LYONS
Author of Meanwhile , (Finishing Line Press, 2005), In Other Words (Pecan Grove Press, 2005) and Hineni, (Finishing Line Press, 2003) |
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B. V. OLGUIN
Author of two poetry manuscripts: Red Leather Gloves and Sombras de Sangre/Shadows of Blood (both under review).
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DAVID RAY VANCE
Author of Vitreous, winner of the 2005 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize (Del Sol Press, 2007) and Radium Jaw (Transparent Tiger Press, 2001).
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CREATIVE WRITING DEGREE PLANS and CERTIFICATES
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2007-2008 SCHOLARSHIPS and AWARDS
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Wendy Barker Award
First Place Winner - Michelle Neumann
The Wendy Barker Award was established six years ago by Jerald Winakur, M.D., and his wife Lee Robinson Esq., (both writers themselves) in honor of Dr. Wendy Barker, who began her career at UTSA in 1982. Every year this award is given in Dr. Barker's name to a graduate student who has submitted a creative writing manuscript of exceptional quality and promise.
The Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship Award
First Place Winner - Karen Moon
Second Place Winner - Marcus J. Melendez
The Davidson-Shaddox Scholarship for undergraduate excellence in creative writing honors Brenda Davidson-Shaddox, an excellent student in our department during the 1980's, and a very talented creative writer, who "wanted to give back something of what the department had given her."
Iron Horse Literary Review 2008 Discovered Voices Nominee
Christina L. Garza
Graduate Certificate Recipients
Amber Duncan
Meredith Norwood
COLFA Conference Creative Writing Award Winners
(Undergraduate)
First: David Martinez
Second: Brian Slaughter
Third: Jodi Lynne Ierien
(Graduate)
First: Amber Duncan
Second: Christina Garza
Third: Elaine Wong
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CREATIVE WRITING ALUMNAE
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have gone on to publish and receive other writing awards, and to work in the community as teachers and mentors. Several have gone on to receive scholarships to highly-competitive graduate writing programs across the country, including:
Brown University
Goddard College
Notre Dame University
The University of Colorado at Boulder
University of Denver
The University of Houston
and UMass-Boston
among others
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LITERARY JOURNALS
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Beginning in 2008, UTSA is proud to sponsor and house the nationally recognized literary journal American Letters & Commentary, co-edited by David Ray Vance and Catherine Kasper. Now in its twentieth year of production, AL&C is a nationally distributed literary annual devoted to experimental writing and art. AL&C will be sharing its new digs with Sagebrush Review, UTSA's very own student-run and student-produced literary journal. For more information about AL&C, see the journal's website >>>> If you'd like to volunteer your time and energy to help with Sagebrush Review, please contact them at sagebrushreview@gmail.com
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2007-2008 CREATIVE WRITING READING SERIES
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BENJAMĂN ALIRE SĂENZ
Thursday, October 18th (8pm)
UTSA 1604 Campus
Retama Auditorium
University Center (2.02.02)
Poet and novelist, BenjamĂn Alire Sáenz is a former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. He is the recipient of an American Book Award and a Lannan Poetry Fellowship. His novels include Carry Me Like Water, In Perfect Light, Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, and the forthcoming Names on a Map. His books of poems include Elegies in Blue and Dreaming the End of War. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso |
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KIMIKO HAHN
Friday, November 9th (6:30pm)
Gemini Ink
513 S Presa St.
San Antonio, TX 78205
Kimiko Hahn is the author of seven books of poems, including: Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; and The Narrow Road to the Interior (W.W. Norton, 2006). Hahn is a recipient of a number of fellowships and awards, including The Shelley Memorial Prize and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award. She is a Distinguished Professor in the MFA program at Queens College/CUNY.
CO-SPONSORED BY GEMINI INK
www.geminiink.org
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MARK NOWAK
Friday, March 7th (7:30pm)
UTSA 1604 Campus
John Peace Library
Assembly Room (4.03.08)
Mark Nowak is author of Revenants, Shut Up Shut Down and the forthcoming Coal Mountain Elementary (all from Coffee House Press) as well as editor of the journal XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics. His recent writings on working class culture have appeared in The Progressive, Goth: Undead Subculture (Duke University Press), and elsewhere. He is facilitating "poetry dialogues" between autoworkers at the St. Paul Ford assembly plant (slated for closure in 2008 as part of Ford's "The Way Forward" plan) and Ford workers at plants in Port Elizabeth and Pretoria, South Africa, through the United Autoworkers (UAW) and NUMSA (National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa). |
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WORDFEST
Friday, April 11th (7:30pm)
UTSA 1604 Campus
John Peace Library
Assembly Room (4.03.08)
Please join us for our 6th Annual Wordfest, a celebration of student achievement in creative writing, featuring readings by recipients of the Davidson-Shaddox Creative Writing Scholarship for undergraduate excellence in creative writing and the Wendy Barker Award for graduate creative writing excellence, along with UTSA writing faculty. |
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Parking is available in Lot #3 (Faculty B spots) for all Creative Writing Reading Series Events held at the UTSA 1604 Campus. |
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DONORS
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The UTSA Creative Writing Committee wishes to thank the following donors who make our reading series possible:
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Vera Banner
Wendy Barker
Drs. Lois Bready and Joseph Holahan
Sandra Cisneros
Dr. Deborah Douglas
Mary Elizabeth Droste
Dr. and Mrs. Marvin Forland
Alexandra Miller
Joan Mitchell
Carie Novikoff
Naomi Shihab Nye
Richard Pressman and Judine Taylor
The Honorable Bonnie Reed
Dr. Jerald Winakur and Lee Robinson
Dr. and Mrs. Mo Saidi
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Schenker
Melissa Shepherd
Carol Siskovic
Veda Smith
Claude and Barbara Stanush
Natalia Trevińo
Robert Valdez
Abraham Verghese
Dr. Elaine Wagener and Dr. James Wagener
Esther Vexler
Suzy Warly
Dr. and Mrs. Elliot Weser
Dr. and Mrs. Donald West
Sheila and Wayne Wright
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If you would like to support our reading series or help fund a scholarship for creative writing students, please contact:
Wendy Barker
Department of English, Classics and Philiosophy
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249-0603
tel. 210.458.4374
e-mail. wendy.barker@utsa.edu
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FACULTY KUDOS
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Wendy Barker was named the winner of the 2007 Violet Crown Book Award in Poetry from the Writer's League of Texas for her latest collection "Between Frames" (Pecan Grove, 2006). For more information >>>>
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