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2011 Audio Contest Runners-up: Poetry
This week on the TMR Podcast, we are excited to present “Continuous Form” by Henry Finch, and “Know/Don’t Know” by Kate Asche, which were the Runners-up for our 2011 Audio Competition in the Poetry category. To find out about our 2012 Audio Competition or to submit an entry, please view the submission guidelines.
Henry Finch is an MFA student in poetry at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He is the co-author of the chapbook Luxury Arcana (2010), and author of the forthcoming New Music, both with Human 500. His work has recently appeared in Dear Sir and Volt. His music can be heard at www.soundcloud.com/henryfinch
Kate Asche is a poet and essayist. A graduate of the UC Davis creative writing program, she has received an Academy of American Poets Award and two Elliot Gilbert Prizes in Poetry. She placed fourth in the University of California Poet Laureate competition, and was nominated for Best New Poets (Meridian Magazine). Currently the Associate Director of Arts, Humanities and Writing at UC Davis Extension, she coordinates The Tomales Bay Workshops, as well as certificate programs in creative and nonfiction writing. She also volunteers on the board of the Sacramento Poetry Center, teaches creative writing in Sacramento, and enjoys playing classical clarinet.
Interview: William Lychack
On this week’s episode of the TMR Podcast, we’re excited to feature an interview with William Lychack. William Lychack’s work has appeared in The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The American Scholar, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, and many other places, including public radio’s This American Life. He is the author of a novel, The Wasp Eater, and a collection of stories, The Architect of Flowers. William Lychack currently lives in Stanford, Vermont, and teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program at Lesley University.
2011 Editors’ Prize Winner: Anna Solomon
The TMR Podcast returns this week with a reading of Anna Solomon’s “The Long Net,” which was our 2011 Editors’ Prize winner in the fiction category. Anna Solomon received her MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, and her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Georgia Review, One Story, Harvard Review, and many other fine journals. Anna lives in Providence, Rhode Island with her husband and daughter, and her first novel, The Little Bride, was published by Riverhead Books in 2011. Anna Solomon was recorded live at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.
2011 Editors’ Prize Winner: John Hales
On this week’s podcast, we are excited to feature a reading of John Hales essay “Helpline,” which was the 2011 Editors’ Prize winner in Nonfiction. John Hales is the author of Shooting Polaris: A Personal Survey in the American West. His essays have appeared in Georgia Review, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Southern Review, Hudson Review, and many other journals and anthologies, and have been cited numerous times in Best American Essays and Best American Science and Nature Writing. Hales is a Pushcart Prize winner, and has been profiled as one of Twenty-Five Nonfiction Writers to Watch in Writer’s Digest. He teaches in the MFA in Creative Writing program at California State University, Fresno. John Hales was recorded live at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.
2011 Audio Contest Runner-up: Katie Schmid
Here at the TMR Podcast, we’re ringing in the New Year with Katie Schmid’s “Bird Heart,” which was the First Runner-up of our 2011 Audio Competition in the Poetry category.
Katie Schmid is a graduate of the Wyoming MFA program. Her work has been published in Hot Metal Bridge, Event Magazine and Best New Poets 2009. In 2011 she received an AWP Intro Journals Award for her poem “Daughter Psalms,” forthcoming in Quarterly West. Her book manuscript recently took second place in the Santa Fe Writer’s Project Poetry Awards. She lives in Illinois with her husband, the musician and writer David Henson, and their two dogs, all of whom are beautiful and covered in fur. Currently she makes croissants for a living.
David Henson is the founder of the band Shadows on a River (www.shadowsonariver.com). Their latest EP is called The Other Astronaut’s Wife. He has also had songs and compositions featured in various independent films and documentaries.
2011 Audio Contest Runner-up: Amy Schleunes
Happy Holidays from TMR! This week’s episode features Amy Schleunes’ “The Body Instrument,” which was the First Runner-up of our 2011 Audio Competition in the Self-Recorded Documentary category. Amy Schleunes is a writer, performer, and MFA candidate at the University of Iowa, where she studies both creative writing and dance. Her writing recently appeared in McSweeney’s and PANK, and she will be a featured playwright in the 2012 Iowa New Play Festival.
2011 Audio Contest Runner-up: Bill Ratner
On this week’s podcast, we feature Bill Ratner’s essay, “The Archiving of an I Love Lucy Bit-Part Player,” which was the First Runner-up of our 2011 Audio Competition in the Prose category. Bill Ratner is a seven-time winner of The Moth Story Slams in Los Angeles. He is a voice on movie trailers, documentaries and computer games, and the cartoon voice of Flint on G.I. Joe, Robot Chicken, and Family Guy. His essays and short fiction are published in The Armor Fati, Pleiades, Southern Anthology, Spork, NiteBlade.com, National Cheng Kung Literary, Paper Maché Press, TV Marquee, and Coast Magazine. (Bill’s uncle, Robert Jellison, actually played the role of Bobby the Bellboy on I Love Lucy.) More of Bill’s stories can be found on billratner.com
2011 Audio Contest Runner-up: Lulu Miller
After a short post-Thanksgiving hiatus, the podcast returns this week with Lulu Miller’s “Falling in Love,” which was the First Runner-up in the Professionally-Recorded Documentary category of our 2011 Audio Competition. Lulu was a producer on Radiolab for five years. Before that she was a woodworker’s assistant in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Her work has appeared on Radiolab, This American Life, and The Environmental Report. She recently received a Poe-Faulkner Fellowship, which awards her two years to pursue fiction writing at the University of Virginia.
2011 Audio Contest Winner: Greg Brownderville
On this week’s podcast, and with a special welcome to our new iTunes subscribers, we feature the winner of our 2011 Audio Competition in the Poetry category, Greg Brownderville’s “Sex and Pentacost.” Greg Alan Brownderville, a native of Pumpkin Bend, Arkansas, is the author of a volume of poems entitled Gust (Northwestern University Press, September 2011). His poems have appeared in the Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, Measure, and several other journals and magazines. He has been the recipient of a Tennessee Williams Scholarship from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Jane Geske Award from Prairie Schooner, and the Porter Prize. Brownderville completed an MFA at the University of Mississippi in 2008, and currently teaches creative writing at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Of his winning entry, Greg notes that “rhythmically, the poem owes a huge debt to dzaimbwa poetry in the Shona language of Zimbabwe.”
2011 Audio Contest Winner: Anna Pinkert
This week’s podcast returns to honoring the winners and runners-up of our 2011 Audio Competition with the winner of our Professionally-Recorded Documentary category, Anna Pinkert’s “After the Flood.” Anna Pinkert is a multimedia producer based in Cambridge, MA. She has worked in museum media and on the radio at WBUR’s Radio Boston. In the fall of 2011, she will join the team at BackStory in Charlottesville, VA, where she will live the dream and make radio about American history. Anna is a graduate of Wesleyan University and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. You can listen to more of her documentary work at www.annapinkert.com
2011 Editors’ Prize Winner: George Looney
On this week’s podcast, we pause in our series honoring the winners and runners-up of our 2011 Audio Competition to bring you a special post-Halloween treat: a reading by our 2011 Editors’ Prize winner in Poetry, George Looney. George Looney’s books include Open Between Us, Hymn of Ash, The Precarious Rhetoric of Angels, Attendant Ghosts, and the Bluestem Award-winning Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh. His A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness is due from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2011. His work has been recognized with a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two grants from the Ohio Arts Council, and one from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. He has won awards from literary journals such as Zone 3, New Letters, and The Literary Review. He created and serves as Chair of the BFA in Creative Writing program at Penn State Behrend, where he is editor-in-chief of the international literary journal Lake Effect, translation editor of Mid-American Review, and co-director and co-founder of Chautauqua Writers’ Festival. George Looney was recorded live at the Cherry Hill Conference Center in Columbia, Missouri.
2011 Audio Contest Winner: Rachel Yoder
This week’s podcast continues our series celebrating the winners and runners-up of our 2011 Audio Competition. This episode features the winner of our Prose category, Rachel Yoder’s “I’m White and I’m Mennonite.”
Rachel Yoder edits draft: t
he journal of process, a publication which features stories, first drafts, and interviews with the author (draftjournal.com). She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of Arizona and an MFA in nonfiction from The University of Iowa. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Sun Magazine, and Kenyon Review, among others, and has been selected for anthologies including Best of the Web 2010 (Dzanc) and YOU: An Anthology of Essays in the Second Person (Welcome Table Press). She currently lives in Iowa City and teaches creative writing in the community. For more info, please visit her website, www.racheljyoder.com
2011 Audio Contest Winner: Ken Cormier
This week we begin a series of podcasts honoring the winners and runners-up of our 2011 Audio Competition. The first episode features the winner of our Self-Recorded Documentary category, Ken Cormier’s “Voices of the Dead.” Ken Cormier is the author of two collections of stories and poems: Balance Act and The Tragedy in My Neighborhood. He has also released three CDs of original music, and his live performances have been described as “a William Burroughs exorcism through a Karaoke machine.” He co-founded and edited The Lumberyard, a radio magazine of poetry, prose and music, which aired weekly on WHUS in Connecticut from 2005-2008. Ken is currently an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Quinnipiac University. More information on Ken and his work can be found on his website: www.kencormier.com.
Interview: Derek Mong
In the first installment of a new series of interviews on TMR, managing editor Michael Nye talked with Derek Mong, author of the poetry collection Other Romes(Saturnalia Press, 2011). Mong was the 2008 – 2010 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville, where he taught literature, creative writing, and hosted “The Soul That Grows in Darkness: The Axton Festival of Film and Verse.” From 2006 – 2007 he was the Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has previously taught at the University of Michigan, SUNY-Albany, and with young writer’s workshops at Kenyon College and Denison University, his alma mater. In the fall of 2010 he began a PhD in English Literature at Stanford University. Michael spoke with Derek from his home in Palo Alto.
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