Chloe Honum, MFA student in creative writing, is a recent recipient of a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship. The Lilly Fellowships, among the largest awards of their type offered to aspiring poets in the United States, are selected by the editors of Poetry magazine.
ATTENTION GRADUATE STUDENTS! Please visit the new graduate student website uark.edu/ua/osre.
The National Endowment for the Arts has just announced its 2009 grant winners. Out of forty chosen, four are alumni of the University of Arkansas Creative Writing Program. Chelsea Rathburn, Thom Satterlee, Charles Rafferty, and Bill Notter each received $25,000 to write more poetry.
James T. Whitehead. The Panther: Posthumous Poems is now available at Amazon.com.
Buy Geoff Brock's new translation of Pinocchio now at Amazon.com.
Professor Michael Heffernan's new book, "The Odor of Sanctity" is now available for purchase at Salmon Poetry.
Professor Mohja Kahf's book, "The Girl in The Tangerine Scarf" is now available at Amazon.com.
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Belize Literacy Project
University of Arkansas students, Pamela Center and Elizabeth Bostwick, Led by Laura Gray of the Department of English, worked in Dangriga, Belize, from May 17- June 15 this past summer in a literacy project. UA Students partnered with Belizean teachers in four local primary schools to teach language lessons in creative writing with the aim of furthering literacy. Literacy is one of the areas that this town of 14,000 has identified as a way to improve its standard of living. Each summer, UA students involved in this UA Study Abroad program select project areas that address poverty elimination. This was the third year for the program and the Literacy Team.
Read the profiles of our graduate students seeking jobs in American Literature, Creative Writing, Medieval Literature and Rhetoric, Composition and LIteracy. Click here.
The Larry Guinn Endowed Award
The Larry Guinn Award has been established to honor the memory and legacy of Dr. Lawrence Guinn, who died February 7, 2007. Because of Larry's devotion to students and the teaching profession, the award will appropriately provide selected graduate students within the Department of English with financial support.
