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Christine Sneed on “Quality of Life”

Categories: NER Community

Christine Sneed (31.4), whose work has appeared in NER a number of times over the years, is the subject of the Chicago Tribune’s “Remarkable Woman” feature:

Christine Sneed has spent much of her life writing—short stories, mostly, and poetry. And for nearly 20 years, her rewards were small. Some were published in prestigious literary journals, but many more didn’t make it.

One short story, “Quality of Life,” was rejected 19 times before it was accepted by the New England Review in 2007. Then stuff started happening.

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January 19: NER Vermont Reading Series

Categories: Readings

NER is pleased to present the next event in our quarterly Vermont Reading Series: Stephen Kiernan, Chloe Joan Lopez, Daniel Lusk, and Neil Shepard will read on Thursday, January 19, 7 p.m. at Carol’s Hungry Mind Cafe, 24 Merchants Row, Middlebury, co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop.

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Talking Fowl with My Father

Categories: Audio, NER Community

Lori Ostlund, author of the Flannery O’Connor Award-winning collection The Bigness of the World, reads Part 1 of her story “Talking Fowl with My Father” at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

“Talking Fowl with My Father” was originally published in NER‘s Vol. 30, #3 (2009). This reading took place in August 2010.

To listen to the entire reading, or to other readings and lectures from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, visit their iTunesU site.

 

NER Community | Michael Katz & Tolstoy

Categories: NER Classics, NER Community

Michael Katz presents a little-known short story by Leo Tolstoy. (He’s shown here reading this translation at NER’s Middlebury Reunion Reading.)

Tolstoy wrote “Alyósha Gorshok” (literally, “Alyósha-the-Pot”) in 1905. The only mention of the story in his diary is an entry for February 28 of that year: “Have been writing Alyósha. Quite bad. Gave it up.” The story was published posthumously in 1911 with several other works of his late, post-conversion period. Prince Dmitry Mirsky in his pioneering survey, The History of Russian Literature (1949), regarded the story as a masterpiece. “Concentrated into its six pages . . . [it] is one of [Tolstoy’s] most perfect creations, and one of the few which make one forget the bedrock Luciferianism and pride of the author.” 

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Pushcart Prize XXXVI: Best of the Small Presses

Categories: News & Notes

The 2012 edition of the Pushcart Prize anthology has just arrived in the office, and we’re proud to see some works from New England Review cited in its pages. Patrick Phillips’s poem “A Spell Against Gods” (31.2) is a prize-winner this year, and two stories, Castle Freeman’s “The Next Thing on Benefit” (31.1) and Elizabeth Schulte’s “The Space Between the Rows” (31.1), received “special mention.”

NER VT Reading Series: November 10, 7 p.m.

Categories: News & Notes, Readings

New England Review is pleased to present the third event in the quarterly NER Vermont Reading Series, featuring four Vermont authors, including the state’s new Poet Laureate. On Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 7 p.m., Ellen Dudley, Estela González, Sydney Lea, and Leath Tonino will read from their work at Carol’s Hungry Mind Café, 24 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury, VT. [READ MORE]

Also reading TODAY, is poet and Middlebury graduate Lucas Farrell, at the Axinn Center, Abernethy Room, 4:30 p.m.

Eduardo C. Corrall awarded by Whiting Foundation

Categories: News & Notes, Poetry

Eduardo C. Corrall (30.4) is among the recipients of this year’s Whiting Writers Awards, which are given annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The awards, of $50,000 each, are based on accomplishment and promise.

David Philip Mullins wins Nevada’s Silver Pen Award

Categories: Fiction, News & Notes

David Phillip Mullins (29.2) was recently awarded the the Silver Pen Award, from the Friends of the University of Nevada (Reno) Library in recognition of his writing career in and about Nevada, as part of the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame’s effort to recognize writers who are in mid-career and have shown substantial achievement.

Melinda Moustakis honored by National Book Foundation

Categories: Fiction, News & Notes

The National Book Foundation has named NER contributor Melinda Moustakis (32.1) one of its  2011 “5 Under 35,” an honor that  acknowledges notable young fiction writers under the age of 35. The writers will be honored Nov. 14 in New York at a celebration hosted by filmmaker and author John Waters.

Sydney Lea on Vermont Public Radio

Categories: News & Notes, Poetry

Sydney Lea (32.2), who with Jay Parini founded New England Review in 1978, reads two of his recent poems and talks about what he plans to do as Vermont Poet Laureate. Lea’s essay on Frost appears in the recent Volume 32.2  of NER.