Tag: Leslee Becker
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News of Note Week of January 21
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Read More: News of Note Week of January 21Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist in the Great Midwestern Fiction Contest for her story, “The Grotto.” Mark Bresnan wrote about compensation and contingent labor for Inside Higher Ed. https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/just-visiting/guest-post-how-was-your-semester In the on-going life of NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang have a review, and long…
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News of Note for November
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Read More: News of Note for NovemberThe Community Literacy Center was featured in a podcast on KCSU. “On this episode, [Christian Rhea, digital director in VP Research Office] sat down with the Director of the Community Literacy Center, Tobi Jacobi, and one of the center’s [former] interns, Bree Jones, to discuss the CLC’s mission to create alternative…
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News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1
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Read More: News of Note Weeks of September 24 and October 1Leslee Becker’s story, “The Airman,” has been accepted for publication in Fiction War Magazine. Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang shared their new book, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified), at Naropa University, on Tuesday, September 25. Matthew also has new poems out in Posit, which can be found here: https://positjournal.com/2018/09/13/matthew-cooperman/ Debby Thompson’s essay…
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News of Note for March 2018
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Read More: News of Note for March 2018Stephanie G’Schwind’s National Endowment for the Arts grant application, on behalf of the Center for Literary Publishing, was funded for $15,000. The grant will fund two issues of Colorado Review and the most recent title in the Mountain West Poetry Series: We Remain Traditional, by Arizona poet Sylvia Chan (February…
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News of Note January 2018
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Read More: News of Note January 2018There is a review of Dan Beachy-Quick’s new book up at Michigan Quarterly Review: http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2017/12/required-reading-dan-beachy-quicks-of-silence-and-song/ and he has three poems just published at BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/authors/dan-beachy-quick Leslee Becker won 1st prize in the Broad River Review Fiction Contest for her story, “Such Friends.” Doug Cloud’s article, “Toward a Richer Rhetoric of Agency:…
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News of Note Week of October 16
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Read More: News of Note Week of October 16Leslee Becker has been named a Finalist for the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award in Short Stories. Doug Cloud’s co-authored essay, “How People Make Sense of Trump and Why It Matters for Racial Justice” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Contemporary Rhetoric. It should be out in November or…
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News of Note Week of August 21
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Read More: News of Note Week of August 21Leslee Becker was named the 3rd-Place Winner of the Marguerite McGlinn Prize for Fiction, sponsored by Rosemont College/Philadelphia Stories & PS Books (“the POWER of Small”) for her short story, “The Grotto.” The Community Literacy Center is happy to welcome six new interns for Fall 2017-Spring 2018. Interns who will develop research…
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Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker
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Read More: Faculty Profile: Leslee Becker~From English Department Communications Intern Ashley Alfirevic Name: Leslee Becker Title: Professor of English Program: Creative Writing MFA Program How would you describe your work in the English Department? It’s not that different from everybody else’s. It’s teaching, committee work, and in Creative Writing – for me anyhow. I…