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Ashley McHugh's poem "Of this Burning Heart" has been accepted for an upcoming issue of Anti-.

Geoff Brock has received a Pushcart Prize for his poem "Daddy: 1933," which appears in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, out this month. The poem originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of Poetry and can be read here.

The Pushcart Prize anthologies have been published annually since the mid-1970s to honor the best poetry and short fiction of the preceding year. Michael Heffernan, Skip Hays, Molly Giles, and Ellen Gilchrist have appeared in earlier volumes.

Josh Peterson's short story "Love Apocalypse" will appear in the FlatmanCrooked anthology Not About Vampires: An Anthology of New Fiction Concerning Everything Else due out early next year. Josh is a first-year student in the program.

Ashley McHugh has placed a chapbook with LATR Editions. "Become All Flame" is slated for publication in spring 2010.

Chloe Honum's poem "Come Back" is the in the current issue of AGNI.

Ashley McHugh has received the Morton Marr Poetry Prize for her poem "Into These Knots." The prize includes publication in the Southwest Review and a check for $1,000.

Also this week, two of Ashley's poems — "Wedding Anniversaries" and "Church of the Annunziata, 1760" — were accepted for publication in a future issue of the Pebble Lake Review.

Johnathon Williams's poem "Stillwell, Oklahoma" has been accepted for publication in 42opus. Williams is a fourth-year student in the program.