Tag: Writing

  • New Books by 3 MAPH Poets

    Poet Shaindel Beers (MAPH 00) has signed a two-book deal for poetry collections with Salt Publishing in London. Her first collection, A Brief History of Time, will be released in February at the annual conference of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs in Chicago. She also hosts a weekly radio show, Translated By, focusing…

  • How I Sold My Thesis

    Our alum Anna Jarzab, AM ’07, has just sold her thesis to a publisher, and she has graciously taken the time to share a little bit of that adventure with us. -Braden Even though I knew I wanted to write a creative thesis for MAPH, I never intended to write the project I ended up…

  • Keeping us in the Light

    MAPH Alum Joel Witmer (’07) is up and at ’em again with his newest blog The Dark Room, a blog that discusses and reviews movies and television shows. You may remember Joel’s past fame with his Ohio sports based blog, The Disappointment Zone, and its famed appearance in the Wall Street Journal Online. This time…

  • MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers published on NPR web site

    MAPH Alum Shaindel Beers (’00) has recently had her poem, “First Love” published on A Prairie Home Companion Web site, an online version of Garrison Keller’s National Public Radio show. Documenting this great accomplishment and publishing a copy of “First Love,” Beers was interviewed in the Eastern Oregonian in which she talks about getting her…

  • The AfterMAPH Literati

    Eleven MAPH Alums have contributed to the latest issue of Contrary, an online literary magazine founded and run by MAPH Alums. In the latest addition there’s fiction by B.E. Hopkins, aka Brandon Hopkins (MAPH ’03), who’s been living as an expatriate in Paris and writing stories like “The Halcyon Days of War.” Brandon appears alongside…

  • Mind Your Manners: the key to better living

    Often find yourself in an awkward situation? Having a party but you’re not sure of the correct way to keep away uninvited guests? Have you recently had an interaction with someone and you don’t know the proper way to respond? You’re in luck. Former MAPHer Jim Steichen (2007), in addition to his other life activities…

  • Book Reviews. Book Reviews?

    There are seven book reviews in the new issue of Contrary magazine, and five are written by former maphers: Contrary Reviews Would you like to join them? If so, please send the editor, Yours Truly, a note to get the details: chicago[at]contrarymagazine[dot]com. Contrary‘s readership seemed to peak with just over 210,000 page views over three…

  • New Poems by a Mapher

    Shaindel Beers (’00) has two new poems in the latest issue of Thieves Jargon, and like all of Shaindel’s work, they’re terrific: http://www.thievesjargon.com/workview.php?work=976 Shaindel is a professor of English at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Oregon. Please send me news of your publications, or post them here. Eventually I’d like to compile them in…