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Adams Wins ‘Prairie Schooner’ Nonfiction Contest

Christine Adams

Graduate student Christine Adams’s essay “Terms of Venery” was selected by judge Carmen Maria Machado as the winner of the Prairie Schooner Creative Nonfiction Contest. Adams is a doctoral student studying nonfiction in Ohio University’s English Department. She will receive a prize of $500, and her essay will appear in […]

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October 14, 2018 at 11:01 amIn the News Students in the News

Moore Named DePauw’s Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing

Dinty W. Moore

English Professor Dinty W. Moore has been named DePauw University’s Mary Rogers Field and Marion Field-McKenna Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing and will spend the Spring 2019 Semester teaching and promoting nonfiction writing at the Indiana college. Endowed by J. David Field, professor emeritus of English at DePauw, the […]

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September 26, 2018 at 8:47 pmResearch

Adams Included in Best New Poets 2018 Anthology

Christine Adams

Nonfiction Ph.D. student Christine Adams’s poem “Ars Biologica“ has been chosen for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2018 anthology. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers, currently distributed nationally as a University of Virginia Press title and produced in cooperation with Meridian, a semiannual literary magazine from the […]

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September 23, 2018 at 9:22 amResearch

Pretorius Presents at International Crime Fiction Conference

Michelle Pretorius

English fiction Ph.D. candidate Michelle Pretorius presented her paper, “Postcolonial Crime Fiction: Dealing with Trauma in the Postcolonial State,” at a conference in the United Kingdom. Pretorius’s talk situated “Postcolonial crime fiction … as the new political novel.” The conference, titled “Captivating Criminality,” was sponsored by the International Crime Fiction […]

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September 22, 2018 at 11:55 amResearch

Creative Writers Noted in ‘Best American Essays 2018’ Anthology

Creative Writers Noted in ‘Best American Essays 2018’ Anthology

Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays 2018, the latest in an annual series of anthologies marking the finest nonfiction essays published over the previous year, lists three Ohio University faculty and one current Ph.D. candidate in the Notable Essays section. Fiction Ph.D. candidate Lizzie Tran is noted for her essay “Miss […]

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September 21, 2018 at 7:44 pmResearch

Minor Encourages Readers to ‘Reshuffle’ Her Essay, ‘Handling the Beast’

Sarah Minor, doctoral candidate in creative writing

Sarah Minor, Ph.D. candidate in English (nonfiction), has republished her essay, “Handling the Beast,” with Proximity magazine. The essay was originally published by Conjunctions as a traditional text-only piece. Download, print, shuffle, and re-read her essay. In Proximity, however, “Handling the Beast” takes on a new, tactile element: the essay […]

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September 13, 2018 at 5:44 pmResearch

McCrary’s Debut Memoir Released to Excellent Reviews

Micah McCrary

by Kristin Distel Micah McCrary’s debut memoir, Island in the City, published by the University of Nebraska Press, received advanced praise from reviewers. McCrary is a doctoral candidate studying rhetoric and composition in Ohio University’s English Department; he has a secondary specialization in creative writing (nonfiction). His memoir grows out of […]

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September 11, 2018 at 1:42 amResearch