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Meet Daria and Camille

img_4338Daria: Hey Camille! It’s another Tuesday/ Thursday at 11 am.

Camille: Hey Daria! Isn’t it great that we are the Fall semester interns at the New England Review?

Daria: It sure is! I love our duties of managing web posts, organizing books, editing audio clips, using InDesign, preparing for readings and events, reading fiction submissions and cover letters, and occasionally even designing posters!

Camille: Yes, I too love to manage web posts, organize books, edit audio clips, use InDesign, prepare for readings and events, read fiction submissions and cover letters, and occasionally even design posters!

Daria: So, Camille, where are you from?

Camille I’m from Washington, D.C.! Actually in the city, not just in Maryland or Virginia. Where are you from?

Daria: I consider myself to be from a lot of places in Massachusetts. My home is in Hopkinton, Mass, but I went to school in Worcester.

Camille: Wow! What’s your major?

Daria: I came in as a Chinese major but am now in the process of changing to joint Chinese and English, with a Creative Writing thesis. I’ve known I wanted to do poetry all along, I’ve just been denying it.

Camille: Then you’re at the right place! What got you into poetry?

Daria: I’ve been writing basically nonstop since seventh grade. I had a very formative mentor all throughout high school who actually introduced me and encouraged me to apply to the Bread Loaf Young Writers’ Conference. Since then I’ve been hooked.

Camille: Cool! Who’s your favorite poet right now?

Daria: Hands down, Adrienne Rich. Do you have a favorite writer?

Camille: I’m a big fan of Hemingway. But I’m also a total nerd for all the British classics. I love Charles Dickens and I think I’ve read Pride and Prejudice thirteen times.

Daria: Do you do any writing yourself?

Camille: Well, for some reason I decided to write two theses this year, so I’m doing one creative thesis that’s a series of short stories and one critical thesis that’s a comparison of Ulysses and Gulliver’s Travels.

Daria: Nice! So when you’re not writing your two theses, what else are you doing?

Camille: I’m on the rugby team! I’m the team treasurer and a forward. What do you do with your free time?

Daria: I have two radio shows on the Middlebury College Radio Station and I also work in the admissions office.

Camille: Oh boy! Well, we better get to work. We have that Meet the Interns post to write.

Daria: Yeah, I’ve been thinking about that. I’m not really sure anyone will find it funny.

Camille: Huh. You might be right.

 

Emily Geminder Receives 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize

egeminderNER congratulates author Emily Geminder on winning the 2017 Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize for her work, Dead Girls. The Dzanc Books Short Story Collection Prize was created to recognize daring, original, and innovative writing.

Geminder, a doctoral fellow in fiction at the University of Southern California and winner of a fellowship award from the Vermont Studio Center, said of receiving the prize: “I couldn’t be happier to have my short story collection published by Dzanc. Writing stories is a long strange journey and it’s wonderful to think of them going out into the world.”

Geminder will receive a cash prize for the award, in addition to publication in the fall of 2017.

Emily Geminder’s short stories, poems, and essays have appeared in AGNI, American Short Fiction, Mississippi Review, Prairie Schooner, Tin House Open Bar, Witness, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award and a Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and her work was noted in Best American Essays 2016. Previously she worked as a journalist in New York and Cambodia. She is currently a doctoral fellow in fiction at the University of Southern California. Her essay “Phnom Penh 2012” was published in NER 36.4.

NER Selections Included in Pushcart Prize XLI

fullsizerender-copyThe Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. Since 1976, hundreds of presses and thousands of writers of short stories, poetry and essays have been represented in their annual collections.

Three works from NER are represented in the 2017 anthology:

Special Mentions are also given to:

  • Camille Dungy for “A Shade North of Ordinary” from NER 36.2
  • Cate Marvin for “High School in Suzhou” from NER 36.1
  • Ocean Vuong for “To My Father / To My Unborn Son” from NER 36.1.
  • And to our fiction editor Janice Obuchowski for “Sully” in the Gettysburg Review.

The anthology can be purchased now from Pushcart Press’s distributor, W.W. Norton, and independent booksellers. We congratulate our authors on this recognition!

 

Poland's Illiberal Challenge

The Threat to Parliamentary Democracy

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NER‘s Ellen Hinsey speaks to Rafał Pankowski about Poland’s current political climate, in which the conservative Law and Justice Party is threatening Poland’s liberal democracy from within. How did they get here, and what is the future of democracy in Poland?

This interview will appear in NER 37.4 in December 2016.

Read it here now.

 

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