The Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing & Translation: Weblog

"Along for the Ride," an essay by Camilla Shumaker Medders, will appear in the summer issue of Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers.

Second-year student Chloë Honum has had three poems accepted by Nimrod.

MFA student Robert B. Travis has a new story titled The Plastic Flower Option in the online journal storySouth.

Geoff Brock's most recent translation, Antonia Arslan's Skylark Farm, has just been named one of five finalists for the 2007 First Fiction Award given by the L.A. Times. Winners will be announced April 25. (Brock's first translation, Cesare Pavese's Disaffections, appeared on the L.A. Times' "Best Books of 2003" list.)

Meaghan Mulholland's story "Immersion Program" was recently selected by guest judge Lan Samantha Chang as runner-up for the 2007 Indiana Review Fiction Prize. Mulholland is a first-year student in the program.

Four of Michael Heffernan's poems are featured in the most recent issue of Unsplendid. Audio recordings of Heffernan reading the poems are also offered at the site.

MFA alum Sandy Longhorn's poem "Of Mortal Men and Women" appears in the current issue of Quarterly West (65).