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Fall 2009

Ann Ryles is one of the five finalists for the 2009 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize.

Laurie Doyle's short story "As If" is published in Stone's Throw Magazine.

Summer 2009

Laurie Doyle's short story "Voices" is published in Dogwood Journal (where it was a finalist in the annual fiction contest). Her story "Vamanos" is in the latest issue of Farallon Review.

An essay by K.G. Schneider, "The Outlaw Bride," was chosen for 2009's The Best American Nonrequired Reading, edited by Dave Eggers.

May 2009

Hannah Kornfeld's story rock, paper, scissors will be published by The Binnacle. Also, The Dos Passos Review will publish her story The Loneliest Road in America in their June issue.

April 2009

Kerry Donoghue's story The Hungry is nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Corinne Loveland has an essay, Sociology, appearing in the April issue of LOST Magazine.

Anne Shaw has two poems, Three Elegies and Fourth Grade Foyer forthcoming in Bellingham Review; the poem Cyclops Family Album will appear in the next edition of Cimarron Review.

Kate Brady's book The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories is #8 on The San Francisco Chronicle bestseller list.

March 2009

An article about MaryLee McNeal's poetry class for recovering addicts can be found at InsideBayArea.com.

Ann Ryles has published an interview of Kate Brady in the online magaizne The Rumpus.

Kerry Donoghue publishes her story How I Miss You in Fiction Circus.

Articles on Yiyun Li and her new book, The Vagrants, appear in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Yorker, The Boston Globe, and as the cover review of The New York Times Book Review.

February 2009

Craig Santos Perez's book from unincorporated territory is reviewed in the February/March issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter

Hannah Kornfeld publishes her short story Ace of Cups in So to Speak, a feminist journal of language and art put out by George Mason University. Her story Jumpgirl is forthcoming in SoMa Literary Review, an online journal of new voices from San Francisco.

Nellie Hermann wins first place in Glimmer Train's Family Matters competition, for her story Can We Let the Baby Go? The story will be published in November 2009.

Yiyun Li publishes her novel The Vagrants, a book that Ann Patchett calls "as important politically as it is artistically. The Vagrants is an enormous achievement."

January 2009

Kate Brady publishes her fourth book, The Mechanics of Falling and Other Stories.

Babylon's Timothy B. Rien wins Cutthroat Magazine's Rick DeMarinis Short Story Award for his story Reading the Weight of It.

Jennifer Reimer wins the 2009 Academy of American Poets prize for UC Berkeley for selections from her manuscript A Duration of Water.

Peter Sheehy is a finalist in Inkwell's fiction contest with his story Saving Seats.

Anne Shaw publishes poems in Tuesday: An Art Project and Subtropics. Forthcoming from Diagram will also be her documentary poem Monstrosities, which explores the history of monstrosity from Medieval times to the present.

Lola Haskins publishes her poems Prayer for the Everglades, The Sandhill Cranes, Profusion, and Green and Variations in the anthology Floridada.

Kate Braverman publishes What Women of the Ports Know in Warwick Review. The story is reviewed as "superb writing, sharp as nails, completely unfooled." She also has Marriage, an essay, appearing in Van Gogh's Ear and Autumn Alchemy, a short story, in the next issue of Triquarterly.

December 2008

Shannon Cain wins a 2009 Pushcart Prize and is special mention in Best American Short Stories 2008. She also publishes a short story, Cultivation, in Tin House.

November 2008

Peter Sheehy is nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Storyglossia for his story Missed Connections.

Anne Shaw publishes the poem The Supper Star in Literal Latté.

October 2008

Kate Braverman has an interview posted on Word Riot.

Anne Shaw publishes her poems Take in The Journal and Catacomb in The Laurel Review.

September 2008

Babylon's Laurie Doyle is a finalist in New Letters' Alexander Patterson Cappon Fiction Contest for her story Voices.

August 2008

Babylon's Laurie Doyle publishes her story Above and Below in Quality Fiction.

Corinne Loveland publishes an essay, "Aunt Gail," in the Summer 2008 edition of Raving Dove.

July 2008

Michelle Richmond publishes her fourth book, No One You Know.

Babylon's Timothy Crandle won the Jack Dyer Prize for Fiction from Crab Orchard Review for his short story, Bethlehem Steel. It will be published in Spring 2009.

And Beyond...

Jennifer Reimer has published prose poems in The Berkeley Poetry Review, The Chaffey Review, and 580 Split.

Corinne Loveland has published "Breath Shards," a collection of micro essays, in the Spring 2008 edition of Fraglit.