Books

MFA Alum Peter Barlow’s Little Black Dots Published with Chatter House Press

Congratulations to FDU MFA alum Peter Barlow! Peter's Little Black Dots: A Short Story Collection has been published by Chatter House Press. Are you interested in studying with Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Low Residency MFA program? Learn more. ...

07 Jul 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Books, Current Events, Current News, publications, Worth Reading no comments

Alum Bill Mesce’s The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them

FDU MFA alum Bill Mesce Jr.'s book The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them has been published by McFarland & Co. Congratulations, Bill! About The Rules of Screenwriting and Why You Should Break Them: "A couple of generations ago, the movie industry ran on gut instinct film schools,...

07 Jun 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Books no comments

MFA Alum Heather Lang’s Anthology Featured in the Las Vegas Review Journal

Witness off-duty Elvis, Miss Atomic at home & words as trapeze artists. Explore ghosts in the ecotone, hasty breakups & why reproduction has so many o's. Discover the saltshaker that's buried in the microwave, a sci-fi spacesuit's metallic silver & that desert bone. Edited &...

16 May 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Awards, Book Reviews, Books, Current Events, Current News, publications, Worth Reading no comments

FDU MFA Translation Faculty Idra Novey Wins 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature

MFA Literary Translation faulty member Idra Novey has won the $100,000 2017 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature! Read more at the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Idra Novey is the author of the debut novel Ways to Disappear, winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Prize and a New York Times Editors’...

05 May 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Awards, Books, Current News, Faculty Books, faculty news, publications no comments

Natalie Cannon’s Story Published in Warrior

In Warrior: A Collection of Short Stories, facing aliens, demons, curses and armies, twelve unstoppable heroes must find the strength to defeat their enemies with wit, weapon and a warrior’s heart. These short stories all feature heroes who identify within the LGBTQIA spectrum. In MFA candidate Natalie Cannon's...

27 Apr 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Books, Worth Reading no comments

Colorado Review Reviews MFA Faculty H. L. Hix’s American Anger

Scott Wordsman, at the Colorado Review, writes the following about FDU MFA Poetry and Literary Translation faculty member H. L. Hix's American Anger: "What makes this piece satisfying and rhetorically successful extends beyond Hix’s diction and wit; what flatters is the poet’s unerring command over his subject...

22 Apr 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Book Reviews, Books, Faculty Books, faculty news no comments

Alum Heather Lang’s Craft & Form Essay Published at Berfrois

A version of alum Heather Lang's MFA Craft & Form Essay was published by Berfrois: The Sounds of Visual Orchestration: An Exploration of Fiona Sampson’s Common Prayer and Sarah Morgan’s Animal Ballistics. Heather studied under poet and mentor Kathleen Graber during her Craft & Form module. Previously...

23 Sep 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Book Reviews, Books, publications, Worth Reading no comments