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      Book Launch Reading for MFA Alumn

      Sound Like Trapped Thunder, the 2020 Deborah Tell Lyric Essay Book Prize by MFA alum Jessica Lind Peterson, will be celebrated with a virtual launch reading this Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm CT.

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      CWP Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe earns best of the 2000s distinction

      Creative Writing Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe's debut essay collection Limber named one of the best nature books of the 2000s.

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      CWP Professor Sheila O'Connor Wins 2020 Minnesota Book Award

      Sheila O'Connor was named the recipient of 2020 Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category for her book Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. O'Connor also won the Minnesota Book Award in this category in 2004 for her novel Where No Gods Came. 

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      CWP Wins Several MN State Arts Board Grants

      The Minnesota State Arts Board announced the winners of its 2020 Artist Initiative Grants and six of the grantees are part of the Hamline Creative Writing Programs.

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      CWP faculty Angela Pelster-Wiebe published in Ploughshares

      BFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe's essay “The Trial” has been published in the 2018/19 Winter Edition of Ploughshares.

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      CWP Faculty Pelster-Wiebe Published at Literary Hub

      BFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe has published a new essay, "White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work," at Literary Hub.

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      MFA Alum's Newest Release

      Hooper, the latest novel from prolific CWP alum Geoff Herbach (MFA ‘06), is out now from HarperCollins. Don’t miss the launch event at the Red Balloon Bookshop on March 7th at 6 PM

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      Alums Named Minnesota Book Award Finalists

      Congratulations to Sarah Ahiers (MFAC '16)  and Caitlin Bailey (MFA '12), both named as finalists for the 30th annual, 2018 Minnesota Book Awards!

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      2017 Hudson Prize Winner

      The Creative Writing Programs alum Beth Mayer (MFA '08) has won Black Lawrence Review's 2017 Hudson Prize! Her short story collection, We Will Tell You Otherwise, her debut book, will be published in the summer of 2019. Congratulations, Beth! 

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      Caitlin Bailey, MFA '12, Wins Lindquist & Vennum Prize

      Solve for Desire, a collection by MFA '12 graduate Caitlin Bailey, has won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. The award includes a publishing contract from Milkweed Editions.

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      Alumni Win MN Book Awards

      Winners of the 2017 MN Book Award include two Creative Writing Programs alumni and a Hamline School of Law alumnus. JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) won in Children's Lit for Worm Loves Worm, Brian Farrey (MFA '09) won in Middle Grade Lit for The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse, and Allen Eskens (JD '91) won in the fiction category for The Heavens May Fall.

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      New Book from MFA student Kelsey Sutton

      Gardenia- the newest book by Kelsey Sutton, current student in the MFA- is out now from Diversion Publishing. In this haunting young adult suspense, seventeen-year-old Ivy Erickson knows the exact moment when she will die.

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      Essay Published in Passages North

      Angela Pelster-Wiebe, CWP faculty, has a new hybrid essay, "Once, Then," published in the newest issue (#38) of Passages North.

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      MN Book Awards Finalists

      Six CWP alums have been named as finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards! Congratulations to J.J. Austrian, Caren Stelson, Brian Farrey, Stephanie Wilbur Ash, and Gretchen Marquette.

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    • Kirkus Best of 2016

      CWP Alums on Kirkus Best of 2016

      Three CWP alums are on Kirkus' Best of 2016 list: Jane O'Reilly (MFAC '09) and Brian Farrey (MFA '12) are listed for Middle Grade, and JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) is listed for picture books.

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      Angela Pelster-Wiebe Nominated for a Pushcart

      Angela Pelster-Wiebe's essay, Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour, which appears in River Teeth Issue 18.1, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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      MFA Alum Book Release: Gretchen Marquette

      Gretchen Marquette’s MFA ’12 debut poetry collection, May Day, is being released May 3 by Graywolf Press. Marquette is also an adjunct faculty member the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline.

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      MFA Alum Book Release Event

      April Vinding (MFA '05), is celebrating the release of her new spiritual memoir, Triptych, published this month by Wipf and Stock. The release party is April 23 at 7 p.m. at Art House North.

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      Visiting Writer, Joni Tevis’ Public Reading and Author Interview

      Hamline welcomes visiting writer Joni Tevis March 8-10, 2016 for Public Reading and Author Interview.

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      MFA Alum Book Release

      Tremolo, a beautiful debut book of poetry from CWP alum Kelly Hansen Maher (MFA '14), is available now from Tinderbox Editions.

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      MFA Alum Book Launch

      Lucie Amundsen's (MFA '14) highly anticipated narrative non-fiction book, Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch will be in stores March 1.

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      MFAC Instructors Win Newbery and Printz Awards

      Matt de la Peña has won the 2016 John Newbery Medal for his picture book Last Stop on Market Street and Laura Ruby has won the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award for her young adult novel Bone Gap.

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      Visiting Writer Kevin Moffett

      Hamline hosts Pushcart Prize-winning author Kevin Moffett on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in Kay Fredericks Room, Klas Center. Free and open to the public.

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      Faculty New Releases

      CWP faculty members John Brandon (BFA/MFA) and e. lockhart, a.k.a., Emily Jenkins, (MFAC) are both celebrating new releases in fiction.

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      CWP Alum Addie Zierman (MFA '11) publishes memoir, receives starred review

      Addie's new book, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over (from her MFA capstone project), received a starred review in October from Publishers Weekly.

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      CWP Alumni Minnesota Book Award Finalists

      Two CWP alums are nominated for Minnesota Book Awards! Nothing Special, by Geoff Herbach (MFA '06), and Silhouette of a Sparrow. by Molly Beth Griffin (MFAC '09), are both finalists for best young people's literature.

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      New books by two MFA alums featured

      New books by Mindy Mejia (MFA '09) and Melanie Hoffert (MFA '08) featured in Sunday Review, Pioneer Press (January 6, 2013)

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      MFA students, faculty receive 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board Grants

      MFA students Lynne Maker Kuechle and Susan Nettell, as well as MFA faculty Juliet Patterson, have been awarded Minnesota Arts Initiative grants (prose) from the MN Arts Board.

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      CWP faculty Sheila O'Connor's publication news

      Sheila O'Connor's newest, Keeping Safe the Stars, is available October 11 (Putnam Juvenile). Celebrate at two launch events: October 13 at Wild Rumpus and October 21 at Red Balloon.

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      CWP Faculty News: John Brandon NYT Review

      A Million Heavens was featured in the Sunday Book Review edition of The New York Times. [excerpt] 'More than once I handed “A Million Heavens” to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph...'

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      New CWP assistant professor John Brandon publishes third novel

      John Brandon's new novel, A Million Heavens, was published to rave reviews (McSweeney's 2012). The Daily Beast includes A Million Heavens in three "offbeat must-reads."

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      Katrina Vandenberg featured on MPR's The Writer's Almanac twice in July

      Hear Garrison Keilor read Katrina's poems, 'Handwriting Analysis' and 'M', both from her new book of poetry, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World.

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      Faculty and Director of CWP Mary François Rockcastle profiled

      Read a lovely new article about Mary and an in-depth review of In Caddis Wood by Mary Stein of the Numéro Cinq web magazine.

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      MFA Alum Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry.

      MFA Alumna Kathy Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry, Unless You Count Birds. Friday, June 8 in GLC 100E.

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    • Help us name our new blog site, win a Kindle Touch!

      The CWP is developing a new blog site and we're looking at you to help us name it. Submit through the end of June. The winner will receive a shiny new Kindle Touch!

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      The Great Twin Cities Poetry Read 2012

      See CWP faculty Deborah Keenan and Juliet Patterson read with many great local poets -- from the third annual Great Twin Cities Poetry Read on The CWP Youtube channel.

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      Mary François Rockcastle and Jim Moore nominated

      CWP Directory and faculty Mary François Rockcastle is in good company, nominated for a 2012 Minnesota Book Award in Fiction & Short Story, along with CWP Faculty Jim Moore, nominated for Poetry. Congratulations Mary and Jim!

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    • Sheila O'Connor receives a best book of 2011 award

      MFA faculty Sheila O'Connor was honored by the Voice of Youth Advocates for her book Sparrow Road.

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    • YALSA 2012 Fiction Nominations include MFA and MFAC faculty and alumni

      The Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) nominates MFAC faculty Ron Koertge and Gary Schmidt, MFA alum Geoff Herbach for best fiction.

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      Congratulations to the MFA and MALS students and alumni chosen as Loft Mentor Series, McKnight Artists Fellowships selections

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      Teachers Say Hamline’s Summer Literacy Institute Leaves Them Informed, Inspired & Empowered

      For more than two decades, K-6 teachers and administrators have come to Hamline’s Saint Paul campus for one week in the summer to discover the most effective and innovative practices in literacy education.

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    • Sheila O'Connor continues to make news and gather praise for her new novel, Sparrow Road.

      Sheila O'Connor continues to make news for her new novel, Sparrow Road.

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      MFA students start nonfiction blog – Join the discussion!

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