FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Over the past six months, faculty and students in the University of Arkansas programs in creative writing have produced numerous publications, from poetry to fiction, essays and translations.

"The UA creative writing program ranks among the best in the nation, and nowhere is that more evident than in the work of our faculty and students," said Robert Brinkmeyer, chair of the English department. "The quality of their writing and the devotion they show to their craft is an inspiration. They set the standard that has kept this program on top."

Fans of Arkansas talent will find works from UA writers at bookstores, in literary journals and on the Web. The following compendium lists their most recent publications.

FACULTY PUBLICATIONS:

By Molly Giles, director of the creative writing program:

• "Sloane’s Girl" (fiction) in Sierra Songs & Descants, Hip Pocket Press, 2002.
• "Protest" (fiction) in Sudden Stories: a Mammoth Anthology of Miniscule Fiction, Mammoth Press, forthcoming.
• "The Writers’ Model" (fiction) in Extreme Fiction, forthcoming.

By Donald Hays, associate professor of creative writing:

• "Dying Light" (fiction), selected for New Stories from the South 2003, the Year’s Best, originally published in The Southern Review, Spring 2002.

By Ellen Gilchrist, associate professor of creative writing:

• "I, Rhoda Manning, Go Hunting with My Daddy and Other Stories" published by Little, Brown & Co. (2002). Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

By Miller Williams, professor of creative writing:

• "The Lives of Kelvin Fletcher: Stories Mostly Short" published by the University of Georgia Press (2002).
• "Pity and Fear" anthologized in Poems of the American West (Knopf, 2002).
• "A Poem for Emily," "Ruby Tells All," "After All These Years of Prayer and Pi R Square," "Waking from a Dream," and "Love Poem with Toast" anthologized in Contemporary American Poetry (Longman, 2002).
• "Love and How It Becomes Important in Our Day to Day Lives" in The Poetry Anthology, 1912-2002.

By Davis McCombs, assistant professor of creative writing:

• "Fishing at Night" (poem) in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall 2002. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
• "Native Grasses" (poem) in Hayden’s Ferry Review, Fall 2002.

STUDENT PUBLICATIONS:

By Josh Capps, second year student:

• "Hellraiser" (fiction) in Carve Magazine, Fall 2002. Also selected for Best of Carve Volume 3, to appear Dec. 15.

By Adam Clay, second year student:

• "Radio Girl" (poem) in StorySouth, Spring 2002.
• "Mind of Heaven" (poem) in The Pedestal Magazine.
• "Study in Cartography" (poem) in Shampoo, Issue 14.
• "Inside the Mosquito Wall" (poem) in can we have our ball back?, Issue 13.
• "Delirium Experiment" (poem) in can we have our ball back?, Issue 14.

• "Anodyne’s Museum" (poem) in The Styles, forthcoming.

By Nic Pizzolatto, second year student:

• "Ghost-Bird and the Curse of Ten Thousand Things" and "Between Here and the Yellow Sea" (fiction) in The Atlantic Monthly, forthcoming.

By Cherri Randall, third year student:

• "Gephyrophobia" (poem) in Hogtown Creek Review, Fall 2002.

By Elizabeth Bryer, third year student (published under the name Elizabeth Chase):

• "Dress Up" and "The Island" (fiction) in Cicada, forthcoming.

By Sandy Longhorn, fourth year student:

• "Insomnia" (poem) in Sonora Review, Fall 2002.
• "Self-portrait: February" (poem) in Black Warrior Review, forthcoming.
• "Self-portrait: March" (poem) in River Styx 65, forthcoming.
• "1976" (poem) in Gulf Stream, forthcoming.

By Allison Wolcott, fourth year student:

• "Victory over Chaos" (fiction) in The Beloit Fiction Journal 2003.

By Tony Tost, fourth year student:

• "My blind dog went to the bridge." (poem) in can we have our ball back?, Issue 14.
• "It’s like waking up and kissing a mirror good morning." and "Some folks are unable to talk on the phone." (poems) in StorySouth, Fall 2002.
• "I Am Not the Pilot" (poem) in The Cortland Review, Issue 22.
• "Tonight I felt as though I was the night." and "We talked about going to church." (poems) in Fence, forthcoming.

SELECTED ALUMNI AWARDS AND PUBLICATIONS:

By Beth Ann Fennelly, 1998 graduate:

• "Open House" (poems) published by Zoo Press (2002). Winner of the Kenyan Review Prize; nominated for a 2002 L.A. Times Book Award in Poetry.

By Alison Pelegrin, 2000 graduate:

• "The Zydeco Tablets" (poems) published by Word Press (2002).

By Nay Hannawi, 1999 graduate in translation:

• "Autumn Equinox" by Jabbour Douaihy, published by The University of Arkansas Press. Awarded the University of Arkansas Press Award for Translation of Arabic Fiction.

By John Getman, 1998 graduate in translation:

• "Llibre de les Solituds" by Miquel Marti Pol. Awarded first prize in the Catholic University Catalan-English Poetry Contest.

By Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, 1997 graduate in translation:

• "Beauty and the Beast" by Earnst Fisher, published by Perseus Books and winner of the Agni Award for Translation of Poetry.

James Frank, 1992 graduate of translation:

• Awarded a grant from the Pro-Helvetia Society to spend the summer of 2003 in Switzerland, completing his translation of the collected stories of Ferdinand Ramuz.

For more information about the University of Arkansas Programs in Creative Writing and Translation, visit: www.uark.edu/depts/english/PCWT.html.

Selected journals, presses and publications named herein have official Web sites that offer more information. See below for details:

StorySouth: http://www.storysouth.com/

Can we have our ball back? http://www.canwehaveourballback.com/

Hayden’s Ferry Review: http://www.haydensferryreview.org/

Beloit Fiction Journal: www.beloit.edu/~english/bfjournal.htm

Cicada: www.cricketmag.com/cgi-bin/cricket.cgi?tpl=cicada/index

The Cortland Review: www.cortlandreview.com/

Gulf Stream: http://w3.fiu.edu/gulfstrm/

Black Warrior Review: www.webdelsol.com/bwr/index2.html

Sonora Review: www.coh.arizona.edu/sonora/

Carve Magazine: www.carvezine.com/