Interview With Kristine Anderson

Go here to see my interview with poet and Mary C. Mohr award winner Kristine Anderson. Smart lady!

Sam Witt Interview

At SIR one of the benefits of an internship is the ability to interview contest winners! Below is a link to my interview with Sam Witt. I enjoyed it thoroughly!

http://www.usi.edu/sir/2007MohrWinners/witt.asp

Greensboro

Is it merely a coincidence, or does it reveal the subtle innerworkings of a fated universe, that

• A) I'll be visiting Greensboro, North Carolina, in a little over a week for the first time, for the Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, and that
  
• B) In the same month (basically yesterday) I have accepted an offer from the MFA program at University of North Carolina at Greensboro?
  

Regardless, it feels good to be finished with the grad school application/decision process, and to know I'm going somewhere that feels right.

Percy Interview

My interview with Benjamin Percy is now live, right here.

Did Anyone Notice...

Melissa and Shawna featured in the Chronicle ad for AWP in NYC? Here's what I want to know: If the question posed to the crowd was How mnay of you prefer the Southern Indiana Review above all other literary journals? why is Melissa's hand only at half-mast?

Small Press Festival at UNC-Greensboro

The SIR crew is going to the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine & Small Press Festival April 23rd-26th, 2008 at
UNC Greensboro. We'll be having a table set up for the small press exhibition and will be plugging away at spreading the word about The Southern Indiana Review and RopeWalk Press.

Some great authors are going to be there, including:
Kelly Cherry
Leigh Anne Couch
Michael Chitwood
Michael McFee
Rick Campbell
Quinn Dalton
Jeanne Leiby
John Picard
Warren Rochelle
Andrea Selch
A. Van Jordan
Natasha Trethewey

I am most excited about A. Van Jordan.

Very excited about Ben Percy. He was at SIU-Carbondale before I was, so I never met him. But the ghosts of Ben Percy still lingered in Faner Hall in his absence.

Also excited about Robert Pinsky coming to USI to be the speaker for the RISC showcase. I'm reading a story based on my research on the controversial austism therapy called chelation and a family's struggle with the condition.

The Student Writer's Union is taking submissions all the time for The Aerie, the student literary publication, ALL OF THE TIME, I was told. So, students who are just bursting with talent send your submissions to: writetheaerie@gmail.com.