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New Faculty! Applying! We here are hunkering down for the gloomy winter in Portland but have another stellar faculty to give us something bright and warm to look forward to. In 2009 we'll be joined by some good old friends in Dorothy Allison, Steve Almond, Aimee Bender, Anthony Doerr and Charles D'Ambrosio; Jim and Karen Shepard will return, as will D.A. Powell and Marie Howe; David Shields will be back, in style and grace; and we're excited to introduce some some new folks to the Tin House coffle: Ron Hansen, Lan Samantha Chang, and Ann Hood. Read more about them on our Faculty page and support them by buying their books! We'll begin, again, accepting applications on January 1. And if you have any questions, don't hesitate to write. And look forward to a new issue of Tin House coming in December, with new work from Ron Hansen, Anne Carson and Christopher Sorrentino. **********************
September 2008 NewsTOBI COGSWELL (04, 05, 06, 07, 08) will have her poem "I Know" published in the 07 issue of Eclipse and "New Year Tale" will appear in the Fall 07 issue of Spot Lit(erary) Mag(azine). She also has three poems ("Reckless Abandon," "Red Sequined Monkeys," and "Poste Restante") online at Verbsap. The 2007 issue of The Los Angeles Review features her poem, "The Dirty Joke." Her poem "After the Reception" is forthcoming in Sage Trail, and her poems "All She Can Do," "How to Vanish," "Transubstantiation," and "Jumping the Constellation" are out or forthcoming from Spot Lit(erary) (Mag)azine. Her poem, "World Cup Distance," will be forthcoming from Newport Review. Her poem "Nighttime Daytime" won honorable mention and "Just Once" won second prize in the Mona O'Connor Memorial Poetry contest by Southwest Manuscripters. Her poem, "Surrealist, Mon Amour," is in the SLEEPOVER issue of Prism Review, in honor of National Poetry Month. "Sad Kings and Sideways Fishes" has been accepted for the 2008 issue of Penumbra, and "Nighttime Daytime" and "Untitled" have been accepted for the Spring/Summer issue of the Homestead Review. Her poems "Try My Life", "Falling From the Sky," "Waiting," "Literary Love" and "The Good Rain" are forthcoming from Bellowing Ark, which will also publish her long sequence of poems, "21 Slices of Alice," in their July/August issue, as well as her poems "Ripening," "Cello," "She Runs With Sugar," "Just Once," and "Her Heart's Desire." Her poem, "I Wish I Looked Like Meg Ryan" has been accepted for the Winter, 2008 issue of the Cherry Blossom Review, as well. Her poem "My Secret Garden" has been acceptd for the Eros issue of Essence, a new poetry journal from Glascow, Scotland. She is also been chosen as the poet of the month at Moon Tide Press. Her poems "Skin to Skin" and "A Slice of Gina" will appear in the December 2008 Forge Journal. PAMELA CROW's (07, Marie Howe) book of poems, "Inside This House," will be published by Main Street Rag press this month. It can be ordered online from their bookstore. Andrew Roe (03, Peter Rock) has had fiction recently published in Glimmer Train, The Cincinnati Review, Salt Flats Annua, Avery Anthology and Failbetter. Julie Dearborn (07, Abigail Thomas) will have essays on two online journals this fall, Somerset Review and Narrative. ALICIA GIFFORD ('03. '04, '06, '07) has a story entitled "At the Bar" in the current (Fall/Winter 2007) issue of Alaska Quarterly Review, and has an upcoming spoken word performance of four of her short stories (including two workshopped at Tin House Summer Workshops), produced by The New Short Fiction Series on May 9, 2007 at the Beverly Hills Library. Her short story (workshopped in '03 with JIM SHEPARD), "Toggling the Switch", originally published by Narrative Magazine and winning "The Million Writers Award" for Best Online Short Story of 2004, has been included in an ESL Textbook, Open Road Skills, 2nd Edition, published by Pearson-Longman in Canada, 2007. Her short story "Surviving Darwin" (originally published by The Barcelona Review) will be included in the 15th anniversary (and final) edition of The Best of Best of American Erotica 2008.
PAULA WHYMAN (07, Karen Shepard) has been awarded a fellowship with VCCA (Virginia Center for the Creative Arts) and has been asked to contribute a story to an anthology edited by Richard Peabody, founder and editor of Gargoyle magazine. She will also have a story, "Driver's Education," included in a forthcoming anthology from The Hudson Review. She also received a 2008 Individual Artist Award for “artistic excellence from the Maryland State Arts Council. She also had an essay read on NPR's "All Things Considered"; check it out.
ALEX LEMON's ('05) second book of poems, Hallelujah Blackout, was just published. An excerpt of the title poem was selected by Charles Wright to be included in Best American Poetry 2008. BENJAMIN PARZYBOK's ('05) novel, Couch, was picked up by Small Beer Press (run by Kelly Link and Gavin Grant www.lcrw.net). Here is the blurb: " Benjamin Parzybok's COUCH, in which three guys carry a couch across the
country in an exuberant and humorous debut reminiscent of The Life of Pi and Then We Came to the End, an episode of furniture moving gone awry becomes an impromptu quest of self-discovery, secret histories, and
unexpected revelations." PAIGE CHANT ('07) has been accepted to the University of Washington's MFA program where she will begin her degree in the fall of '08. EILEEN CRONIN ('07) recently had a story of hers appear in the GW Review. An excerpt of her memoir will also appear in the Bellevue Literary Review. She won the Washington Writing Prize for Short Fiction in 2008 (awarded by the Washington Independent Writers, now American Independent Writers). JAN ELLISON ('06) has been recognized by the following for her work: 2007 O.Henry Prize for my first published story, The Company of Men; Special Mention, Fiction, 2008 Pushcart Prize anthology; 100 Distinguished stories list, appendix to Best American 2007 (edited by Stephen King). TAREK CHEMALY's ('06) poem "the colors of wisdom" won the "Med Poets Society" juried show in February '08, and my blog Beirut/NTSC (Never Twice Same City) [www.beirutntsc.blogspot.com] was elected as one of the most influential in the Middle East by ArabAd magazine (www.arabadmag.com) in January '08.
SARA KIRSCHENBAUM (06. 07) has two poems, "900 Day Siege" and "Housewife," in Kalliope - a Journal of
Women's Literature and Art Vol. XXIX No. 1. She also has a piece of creative nonfiction, "Blue Refuge," forthcoming from Poetica Magazine. LAURA VAN DEN BERG (07) has a collection of stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, forthcoming from Dzanc Books in 2009. Also, the title story was recently picked up by One Story.
LIZ PRATO (06, 07) had her story "He Never Gave It to You Straight" chosen as a runner up for the Juked Fiction Prize by Frederick Bartheleme, and will be published in Issue #5. She currently has an essay in Subtropics, #4, and an interview with her on the Subtropics website. She has work forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Gertrude Press, and Massage & Bodywork Magazine.GRETCHEN MCCULLOUGH (07, Steve Almond) has two stories up at Storysouth this issue. "The Best of Bad Luck" and "A Little Honey and a Little Sunlight." SEAN CARMAN (07, Jim Shepard) has been blogging for Huffington Post and its sister political humor site 23/6 (www.236.com). My 23/6 blog can be found here: http://www.236.com/contributors/sean_carman/ PAUL AUSTIN (07, Abigail Thomas) has a memoir coming out in September of 2008. The working title is Something for the Pain: An ER Doctor's Story. The publisher is W.W. Norton. DEBORAH LOTT (07) will have her story, "Looking for an Angle," published by the Alaska Quarterly Review in 2008. CANDY SHUE (06, Matthea Harvey) has two poems, "I Could Google" and "Seven Year Itch" on poemeleon.com. Her "Advice for Travelers" appears on ToastedCheese.com. And Verbsap published her essay, "The Goldfish Farm." *****************************
If you'd like to learn a little more about our Workshop Leaders, check out these sites: Aimee Bender: http://www.flammableskirt.com
Steve Almond: http://www.stevenalmond.com
D A Powell: http://www.poetryflash.org/archive.284.Witt.html
Dorothy Allison: http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_31intb.html
Jim Shepard: http://www.identitytheory.com/interviews/birnbaum146.php
Charles D'Ambrosio: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040614fa_fact4
Charles D'Ambrosio: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040614fa_fact4
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