We’re excited about a lot of recent good news, including new poetry chapbooks by alums Adam Martinez and Mariana Samuda and the prestigious Narrative Prize for Tryphena Yeboah. Tryphena's thesis is also this year's nomination from Chapman University for the Western Association of Graduate Schools Distinguished Masters Thesis Award. Everyone, please keep sending good news about publications and career paths. Here’s the email address: mfacwnews@chapman.edu.
I also want to mention some special projects that current MFA students are working on because this speaks how open to possibilities we are around here. Megan Friess and Paige Welsh are working with me to explore the possibility of developing an Open Educational Resources textbook for Aspects of a Writer, a resource that would be adaptable over time and widely accessible. Kimberly Bowcutt has joined a research project based on a collection of letters between a husband and wife during World War II; this collection is part of Chapman University’s Center for American War Letters Archive. Vesper North and Elizabeth Tran have investigated what’s happening in Health Humanities so that we can build a program here at Chapman. And Lydia Pejovic is putting together a communications plan for Tab Journal. These projects are not your typical MFA program fare, but they’re a great way to develop skills, test out new areas of inquiry, and contribute to the larger culture.
Applications for the generative poetry workshop with Presidential Fellow Carolyn Forché are due October 15. We welcome applications from current students and from recent alums. The workshop will run November 12-14. Use the online submission form to submit an application. Also, Tabula Poetica will host Carolyn Forché on November 9, so we’ll have more information about that soon.
Take care, all—and read on for more to celebrate and opportunities too!
—Dr. Anna Leahy, Director of MFA in Creative Writing
Alumni Achievements
Adam D. Martinez '14 (Dual MA/MFA)
Adam D. Martinez’s debut poetry book Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual was published by Inlandia Institute.
Jonathan Moch '20 (MFA)
Jonathan Moch’s film Playing the Crease, which he wrote and directed, ran a limited theatrical release.
Jason Thornberry '21 (MFA)
Jason Thornberry’s poem “Wide Awake in an Empty Motel” was published by In Parentheses Literary Magazine. A personal essay "The New Gary," comes courtesy of the Broadkill Review. His essay "Nesting Season," was accepted for publication in the winter issue of Thimble Literary Magazine.
Tryphena Yeboah '21 (MFA)
Tryphena L. Yeboah was awarded a $4,000 Narrative Prize for her story “If the Body Makes a Sound” and essay “The Ravages of an Unloved Life.”
Student Achievements
Jay Dye (MFA)
Jay Dye had her artwork accepted for Quantum Random Transmutation, a virtual art show. It premiered on the New Art City website.
Montéz Louria (Dual MA/MFA)
Montéz Louria was honored as a 2022 Emerging Writer by the Literary Women of Long Beach. Louria was also selected to be a staff essay writer for Outlander Zine.
Makena Metz (MFA)
Makena Metz’s short musical Threesome was selected for the Virtual NYC Summer Equity Library Festival. You can stream it now on Youtube.
Paige Welsh (Dual MA/MFA)
Paige Welsh’s essay “On Professionalism, a Pandemic, and Mental Disability” was published by the Digital Rhetoric Collaborative. Additionally, Welsh’s poem titled “How do Birds Know to Fly South?” was published in Gigantic Sequins this summer.
Santa Victoria-Perez (Dual MA/MFA)
Santa-Victoria Perez was honored as a 2022 Emerging Writer by the Literary Women of Long Beach.
Internships & Events
Coffee House Press is seeking a spring intern for a literary internship. Applications are accepted September 15 through November 1 for internships lasting January through April in-person at their Minneapolis office, with some remote work opportunities.
Opportunities
Pangyrus publishes writing, comics, and visual art in every genre. Deadline October 14.
The Copper Nickel Jake Adam York Prize for a First or Second Poetry Collection is a collaboration between Copper Nickel and Milkweed Editions. Book-length manuscripts can be submitted via Submittable through October 15. The prize-winning poet receives $2,000 and publication.
Phoebe is looking for fiction, poetry, and nonfiction submissions for their winter issue. Deadline October 15.
Tupelo Quarterly seeks submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, lyric essay, hybrid work and visual art during open reading periods. Submissions are open until October 15.
Washington Square Review is taking poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Deadline October 15.
Ruminate's VanderMey Nonfiction Prize is open for any type of creative nonfiction—personal essay, short memoir, literary journalism, etc. Deadline October 18.
The American Poetry Review is seeking submissions for the Honickman First Book Prize, as well as poetry and prose submissions. Deadline October 31.
Conduit Book's Minds on Fire Open Book Prize is now taking submissions. Grand prize is $1,500 and publication. Deadline is October 31.
Headmistress Press is open for submissions for their Sappho's Prize in Poetry. Submissions are open October 1-31.
Kallisto Gaia Press's Ocotillo Review seeks submissions of poetry, short fiction, creative or narrative nonfiction, and flash fiction through October 31.
Kissing Dynamite seeks poetry microchap manuscripts for print publication in 2022. Submissions are open October 1-31.
Metatron Press's Prize for Rising Authors in poetry and fiction is open until October 31.
Persea Book's Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize competition is open to self-identifying women who have yet to publish a full-length book of poems. Submissions are open until October 31.
Red Hen Press is looking for novels, memoirs, creative nonfiction, hybrid works, and story, essay, and poetry collections. Submissions for The Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award must be submitted by October 31.
Redivider seeks previously unpublished works from new, emerging, and established artists and writers. Deadline October 31.
South Broadway Press is seeking poems and experimental pieces on the theme of home for their second anthology Dwell. MFA alum Erica Hoffmeister is on the editorial staff, and MFA Director Anna Leahy's poetry was featured in their first anthology. Submissions are open until October 31.
The Brunel International African Poetry Prize is open for submissions from October 1 through November 1.
North American Review is seeking submissions for the 2022 James Hearst Poetry Prize. Deadline is November 1.
BOA Editions is seeking submissions for the 21st annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Deadline is November 30.
The Autumn House Rising Writer Prize in Poetry is seeking first full-length books of poetry. Submissions are open October 1 to November 30.
Thin Air Magazine is looking for submissions for their Spring 2022 issue. Deadline to submit is December 1.
Glassworks Magazine is looking for submissions for their 2022 print issue. Submissions are open until December 15.
Stadler Center for Poetry and Literary Arts is taking applications for the Stadler Fellowship, and the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing. Deadline to apply is January 2022.
Entropy Magazine's Where to Submit List has a detailed list of current submission opportunities, updated to cover three months of opportunities at a time.
The Sancho Panza Literary Society is back with their summer residency at Trinity College Dublin. The program is open to published and unpublished writers who write fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. For more information about fees and accommodations, email Director Professor Joseph Reynolds (ajoreynolds@fordham.edu).
Sweet publishes emerging and established writers for poetry and creative nonfiction. Rolling submissions.
