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Fifth Wednesday Journal
''Fifth Wednesday Journal'' (''FWJ'') was a non-profit American literary magazine established in 2007 by Vern Miller that published fiction, essays, visual art, interviews, and book reviews both in print and online. ''Fifth Wednesday Journal'' was established in Lisle, Illinois. It ceased publication in 2019. History and background The journal was founded in 2007 by a group of writers in Lisle, Illinois, who believed there was no magazine that represented the writers of Chicago within its suburbs. This group met every month that had a fifth Wednesday, and the first issue was published in fall of 2007. The group decided to use guest editors, changing with each issue, in order to achieve a wider aesthetic range in the magazine. The journal was distributed in the Midwest, with content from established and new writers. Notable writers who contributed to the journal include American Book Award winner Luis Alberto Urrea, Richard Jones, Pushcart Prize winner Roger Reeves, and Shell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Journal
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly Academic journal, journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the ''Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Dixon (author)
Stephen Dixon (born Stephen Bruce Ditchik; June 6, 1936 – November 6, 2019) was an American author of novels and short stories. Life and career Dixon was born on June 6, 1936 in Manhattan, New York. He was the fifth of seven children of Florence Leder, a beauty queen, chorus girl on Broadway, and interior decorator, and Abraham M. Ditchik. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1958 and was a faculty member of Johns Hopkins University. Before becoming a full-time writer, Dixon worked a plethora of odd jobs ranging from bus driver to bartender. In his early 20s he worked as a journalist and in radio, interviewing such political figures as John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev. Dixon was nominated for the National Book Award twice, in 1991 for ''Frog'' and in 1995 for ''Interstate''. He also was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Prize for Fiction, the O. Henry Award, and the Pushcart Prize. He cited Anton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edie Meidav
Edie Meidav (born 1967) is an American novelist. Life She graduated with a B.A., Yale University, and M.F.A., Mills College. Her works include ''Kingdom of the Young'', a collection of fiction with a nonfiction coda; ''Lola, California'', a novel concerning death penalty, motherhood, female friendship, and the cultural aftermath of 1960s idealism; ''Crawl Space'', a novel written in the voice of a Vichy criminal reckoning with the commodification of wartime memory; ''The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon'', set in Sri Lanka and concerning the effects of the Western gaze on the East. Her fiction, poetry, and criticism have appeared in ''Writing on Air'' (MIT Press), ''On Globalization'' (MIT Press), ''Now Write! Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Teachers and Writers'' (Penguin, 2006), and other anthologies, and in Lithub, The Millions, ''Village Voice'', ''Conjunctions'', ''The American Voice'', ''Ms.'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Chattahoochee Review''. The former direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Mattison
Alice Mattison is an American novelist and short story writer. Life Mattison was born in Brooklyn and attended Queens College and Harvard University, where she received a doctorate in literature. She has lived in New Haven CT since the 1970s. She has taught fiction in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Writing at Bennington College since 1995 and at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. Mattison has also taught at Brooklyn College, Yale University and Albertus Magnus College. Mattison and the poet Jane Kenyon met when both published books with the cooperative press Alice James Books, and forged a close friendship and working relationship. Mattison has written about their friendship and mutual influence in an essay published in the Michigan Quarterly Review, entitled "Let It Grow in the Dark Like a Mushroom: Writing with Jane Kenyon." Career Mattison began her career as a poet, publishing a collection of poems in 1980. She began writing short stories in the 1980s. Her f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plimpton Prize
The Plimpton Prize is an annual award of $10,000 given by ''The Paris Review'' to a previously unpublished or emerging author who has written a work of fiction that was recently published in its publication. The award was named in honor of longtime editor of ''The Paris Review'', George Plimpton, who died in 2003. The Plimpton Prize is funded by Sarah Plimpton, his widow, and Terry McDonell, president of the Paris Review Board of Directors. Winners of the Plimpton Prize * 1993: Macia Guthridge, for ''Bones'' * 1994: Vikram Chandra, for ''Dharma"'' * 1995: Lise Goett, for ''Three Poems'' * 1996: Elizabeth Gilbert, for ''The Famous Torn and Restored Lit Cigarette Trick'' * 1997: Martin McDonagh, for ''The Cripple of Inishmaan'' * 1998: Julie Orringer, for ''When She Is Old and I Am Famous'' * 1999: Daniel Libman, for ''In the Belly of the Cat'' * 2000: Karl Iagnemma, for ''On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction'' * 2001: John Barlow, for ''Eating Mammals'' * 2002: Wells ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of U
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Wright (poet)
Charles Wright (born August 25, 1935) is an American poet. He shared the National Book Award in 1983 for ''Country Music: Selected Early Poems'' and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for ''Black Zodiac''. From 2014 to 2015, he served as the 20th Poet Laureate of the United States. Early life and education Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee. Wright attended Christ School (North Carolina) in Asheville for his junior and senior years where he helped coach football, served as vice president of his class, and became a member of the honors program. While at Christ School, he enveloped himself in the literature that would inspire him to write. By the time he graduated in 1953 he had read everything William Faulkner had written. He then matriculated at Davidson College and graduated with a BA in history in 1957. He received a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1963, and attended the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the Sapienza Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Hoagland
Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, ''What Narcissism Means to Me'' (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as ''Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, AGNI, Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review'' and ''Harvard Review.'' Biography Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1953. His father was an Army doctor, so Hoagland grew up on various military bases in Hawaii, Alabama, Ethiopia, and Texas. He had an older sister, and a twin brother who died of a drug overdose in high school. He was educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa (B.A.) and the University of Arizona (M.F. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Lynne Sharon Schwartz (born March 19, 1939) is an American prose and poetry writer. Biography Schwartz grew up in Brooklyn, the second of three children of Jack M. Sharon, a lawyer and accountant, and Sarah Slatus Sharon; she married Harry Schwartz in 1957. She holds a Bachelor of Arts, BA (1959) from Barnard College, an Master of Arts, MA (1961) from Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, and started work on a PhD at NYU. Schwartz has taught in many universities and writing programs, including Bryn Mawr, Columbia University, Columbia, the University of Michigan, Washington University, Rice University, Rice, and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She is currently on faculty in the Writing Seminars Master of Fine Arts, MFA program at Bennington College. Lynne Sharon Schwartz lives in New York City, and has set a number of her books there as well. Though Schwartz is perhaps best known for her novels, her work spans a number of genres, from fiction to poetry to memoir, criticism, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dave Smith (poet)
Dave Smith (born December 19, 1942 in Portsmouth, Virginia) is an American poet, writer, critic, editor, and educator. Biography Dave Smith holds BA, MA, and PhD degrees in English from the University of Virginia, Southern Illinois University, and Ohio University, respectively. He is the author of more than a dozen volumes of poetry, and has also published works of prose and edited collections. Smith has taught literature and creative writing at numerous institutions of higher education, including the University of Utah, the University of Florida, Virginia Commonwealth University, Louisiana State University, and Johns Hopkins University. Formerly editor of ''The Southern Review'', Smith now serves as editor of the Southern Messenger Poets series from Louisiana State University Press. He is an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and a frequent Sewanee Writers' Conference faculty member. Awards * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * John Simon Guggenheim Fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Addonizio
Kim Addonizio (July 31, 1954) is an American poet and novelist. Life Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., United States. She is the daughter of tennis champion Pauline Betz and sports writer Bob Addie (born Addonizio). She briefly attended Georgetown University and American University before dropping out of both. She later moved to San Francisco and received a B.A. and M.A. from San Francisco State University. She has taught at San Francisco State University and Goddard College. She has a daughter, actress Aya Cash, and currently lives in Oakland, California. Awards * two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships * 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship * 2004 Mississippi Review Fiction Prize * 2000 National Book Award Finalist for ''Tell Me'' * 2000 Pushcart Prize for "Aliens" * 1994 San Francisco Commonwealth Club Poetry Medal Works Poetry * "What Do Women Want", ''poets.org'' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Hicok
Bob Hicok (born 1960 Grand Ledge, Michigan) is an American poet. Life Hicok is a professor of creative writing at Virginia Tech. He is from Michigan and before teaching owned and ran a successful automotive die design business. He formerly taught at Western Michigan University. His first book, ''The Legend of Light'', was published by the University of Wisconsin Press and chosen as an American Library Association Booklist Notable Book of the Year. ''Plus Shipping'' followed in 1998. His 2001 ''Animal Soul'' was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has since published five more books, ''Insomnia Diary'' (2004) ''This Clumsy Living'' (2007) ''Words for Empty and Words for Full'' (2010) with University of Pittsburgh Press, ''Elegy Owed'' (2013) and ''Sex & Love & (2016)'' with Copper Canyon Press. His most recent book, ''Hold'', was published in 2018 by Copper Canyon Press. In 2004, after publishing four collections of poetry, Hicok (who previously had no undergr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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