Are you a former AWW participant or faculty
member? If so, we want to share your good news -- publications,
awards -- with the rest of the AWW community. E-mail your items
to info@antiochwritersworkshop.com.
Maureen
Ann Connolly (2006) has two poems, “The Tattersall
Shirt” and “Mercury,” in MARGIE, The American
Journal of Poetry (Volume 6).
Carol
Dixon (2004) won 1st place in the North
Carolina Silver Arts Contest in 2004 and 2005 with her short stories
"Japanese Silk" and "Sliding into Arizona” (both
of which she workshopped at the AWW). She won 2nd place in 2006
with her story "Smart Cookie Rules." Her stories have
been published in the journal Western North Carolina Woman.
Janet
Irvin's short story “After the Dreamtime,” which she
workshopped at the 2006 workshop with John McCluskey,
has sold to Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine . The
story she worked on in 2007 in Liz Strout's group, “The
Price of Plums,” won Honorable Mention in the Tennessee Writers
Alliance Fiction Contest and Jan was invited to read in Nashville
at the Southern Festival of the Book in October 2007.
Amy
Lemmon (2004, 2005, 2006) was awarded the 2006 Ruskin
Art Club Poetry Prize by Red Hen Press (www.redhenpress.org).
Her poem, “A Physics,” was selected by Wanda Coleman
for the award, which includes $1000 and publication in the Los
Angeles Review. On October 28, 2007, Amy will participate
in an awards ceremony featuring special guests Robert Olen Butler
and Billy Collins. Amy’s poetry manuscript, Saint Nobody,
was selected as a finalist in the 2006 Tupelo Press open reading
period, and her manuscript Fine Motor was a finalist
for the 2006 Center for Book Arts Chapbook Prize.
Mikki
Mendelsohn (2005, 2006, 2007) writes us that two of her
poems, “The Artifact” and “On Turning 55,” won awards in the Poets
and Patrons contest sponsored by the Illinois Poetry Society,
and that two agents are looking at her mystery novel!
Julie
Moore (2005) has published a chapbook of poetry, Election
Day (2006, Finishing
Line Press). From the jacket: “Julie
L. Moore turns illness against itself, letting the agony and urgency
of a body in distress cast a lovely and penetrating light over
the surface of the world she moves through. "How / willingly
it becomes / and becomes," she observes of a pear tree blooming
into spring. One could say the same of the beauty and courage
of her own poetry, her own spirit.” ~George Bilgere
Debra
Parmley's (2001, 2002, 2003, 2007) novel Desperate
Journey, which she began workshopping at the AWW iin 2001,
will be published in spring of 2008 by Samhain Publishing. Debra
also writes an online author interview column (Make-believe
Mondays) and has blogged about her 2007 experience at the
AWW (Title
Wave).
Rich
Unger (2005, 2007), died on November 4, 2007, on his
75th birthday. Rich's wife, Ellie, wrote, “He loved attending
AWW where he learned so much about writing and where he met some
wonderful friends. He died of lymphoma, a brain tumor that moved
rapidly and robbed us of a dear husband, father, grandfather,
actor, writer and friend.” Rich was a valued member of the AWW
community and was the winner of our 2005 Goddess Award, for the
publication of his essay “New Deal” in The
Rambler.
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