October 1, 2010
Tina May Hall, associate professor of English and winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, opened the 2010-11 Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series (PCWS) with a reading on Sept. 29, at the University of Pittsburgh. The PCWS presents creative writing as an intellectual endeavor, bringing notable contemporary writers of poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to the campus.
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Collection is Winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize
September 22, 2010
Associate Professor of English Tina May Hall's collection of short stories,
The Physics of Imaginary Objects, has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. The collection is the winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. It was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler.
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September 7, 2010
Hamilton College will host “Stone Canoe Readings,” a reading featuring five poets, on Tuesday, Sept. 7, at 8 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn.
The Stone Canoe is an annual journal of writing, art and ideas from upstate New York, edited by Robert Colley '66 and published by Syracuse University. This event is free and open to the public.
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Olivia Wolfgang-Smith ’11 Working at The Missouri Review
August 4, 2010
For Olivia Wolfgang-Smith ’11, the “slush pile” of unsolicited manuscripts is only barely a metaphor. Working at the literary magazine
The Missouri Review, Wolfgang-Smith pores over 30 manuscripts per week, evaluating their quality. With an Emerson grant and guidance from Associate Professor of English Tina Hall, Wolfgang-Smith is learning the production process of a highly-respected literary magazine.
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August 3, 2010
Professor of English and American Studies Catherine Gunther Kodat has published an essay, "Unhistoricizing Faulkner," in
Faulkner's Sexualities (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2010).
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May 26, 2010
Visiting Assistant Professor of English Hoa Ngo has recently had a short story, “Tell Us About Your Best Kiss," appear in
Stone Canoe (Vol. 4), an award-winning journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York published by Syracuse University. "Next to My Heart I Keep a Digitally Altered Photo of You," another short story by Ngo, was published in the latest issue of
Thin Air Magazine (Vol. 16), published by Northern Arizona University.
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February 12, 2010
Assistant Professor of English Tina May Hall has been named the 2010 winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the nation’ s most prestigious awards for a book of short stories. Hall’ s manuscript,
The Physics of Imaginary Objects, was selected from a field of nearly 350 entries by esteemed author and film critic Renata Adler. The book will be published by the University of Pittsburgh Press this fall.
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