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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

MFA Poetry Alum Flower Conroy Named Key West Poet Laureate

FDU MFA alumna Flower Conroy has been named Key West Poet Laureate. Congratulations, Flower! Flower Conroy is the author of Facts About Snakes & Hearts, winner of Heavy Feather Press’ Chapbook Contest; The Awful Suicidal Swans; and Escape to Nowhere. Her poetry’s been nominated for Best of...

29 Jun 2017 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Alumni Profiles, Awards, Current News 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

A Reading of MFA Alum Anne Harding Woodworth’s play, Hannah Alive

A reading of FDU MFA alum Anne Harding Woodworth’s play, Hannah Alive, which started out as persona poems, will take place on Thursday, October 8, 7:30 p.m., at The Nora School, 955 Sligo Ave., Silver Spring, MD. This is part of The Nora School Poetry Series,...

18 Sep 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Current News, Events no comments

FDU MFA Alum Carol Fragale Brill’s Novel Receives Honorable Mention at Readers’ Favorite

FDU MFA alum Carol Fragale Brill's novel Peace by Piece receives Honorable Mention at Readers' Favorite for Fiction - Chick Lit. Visit the 2015 Book Award Contest Winners at Readers' Favorite. Congratulations, Carol!...

16 Sep 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Books, Current News, publications no comments

The Inquirer on Marcella McCoy-Deh and T.M. Giggetts’ The Search for Susu

The Inquirer reports on exploring shame and redemeption in Marcella McCoy-Deh and FDU MFA alum T.M. Giggetts' The Search for Susu (NewSeason Books, 2015). Read more at The Inquirer. About the novel: When Dr. Francine Carty imagined becoming a tenured professor at one of Philadelphia's most revered institutions of higher learning,...

16 Sep 2015 Posted by Gracelyn Weaver in Current News, Worth Reading no comments