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MFA Program Has Closed Its Admissions for 2013

Deep thanks to all applicants who honored us by sharing their work.  We had a record number of applicants this year (over 300) and received … [Read More...]

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Megan Abbott Selected as Grisham Writer-in-Residence

Crime fiction author Megan Abbott has been selected as the 2013-2014 Grisham Writer-in-Residence.  Click HERE for the full story. … [Read More...]

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Congratulations, Jacob Newberry, UM Alum, winner of the 2012 Ploughshares Emerging Writer’s Nonfiction Contest!

See the press release here! … [Read More...]

The Ecopoetry Anthology

Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street

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Open House

by Beth Ann Fennelly “With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance.” —Robert Hass

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Poachers: Stories

  by Tom Franklin             In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world… [Continue Reading]

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Poems

by Ann Fisher-Wirth

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True Blood

by Chris Offutt

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10 Moons and 13 Horses

by Gary Short Gary Short’s new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of life without bitterness or cheap sentiment, to find poignancy in loss and exaltation in the outwardly mundane. His voice is lyrical, tough,… [Continue Reading]

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Shut Up, Ugly

Jack Pendarvis

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