2009 SER CONTESTS
Congratulations to the winners and finalists of our 2009 contests!
If you missed signing up for our latest Writing Regimen for Adults, catch an all-new program beginning October 1. In the fall, we’ll also be rerunning the Spring 2009 version of our Young Adult Writer’s Regimen.
This spring we invited our adult regimen participants to submit the work they produced during the program. We especially liked Sarah Joyce Bryant’s “Remnants of a Hurricane.” Sign up for our October Writer’s Regimen to win your chance at publication on our website, and check back later this summer for the winner of our June Writer's Regimen!
4.14.09 [ podcast ]
Tuesday, April 14, The Southeast Review held its second annual fundraiser, Inside the Professors Studio. This year’s guests were Erin Belieu, David Kirby, and Martin Kavka, with Julianna Baggott as moderator. For those of you who missed this intimate (and often hilarious) peek into the writer’s life, you can listen to the podcast. And of course, donations are still welcome and appreciated.
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4.02.09 [ podcast ]
Frank Giampietro reads from his new book, Begin Anywhere. Afterwards, Neil Aitken reads from The Lost Country of Sight, winner of the 2007 Philip Levine Prize.
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3.20.09 [ podcast ]
Janet Burroway is the author of eight novels, plays, poetry, essays, texts for dance, and children’s books. Here she reads from her new novel, Bridge of Sand.
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3.14.09 [ podcast ]
Chris Jones, author of Strange Likeness: The Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry, reads from his upcoming book of poems.
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2.27.09 [ podcast ]
Dan Chaon, National Book Award nominee and recipient of the Academy Award in Literature, gives a Q&A and, later that night, reads from his upcoming novel.
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2.25.09 [ podcast ]
Junot Díaz won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, confirming him as a major American author. In the following Q&A, held at Florida State University, he reveals some of his thoughts on the craft of writing. Audio courtesy of the Tallahassee Democrat.
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2.07.09 [ podcast ]
Antonya Nelson’s books have been on five New York Times notable book lists, and The New Yorker named her as one of the “twenty young fiction writers for the new millennium.” Listen as she reads from her new collection, Nothing Right.
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1.28.09 [ podcast ]
Ashley Capps, 2006 winner of the Akron Press Poetry Prize, reads from Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields, as well as new poems. Clint McCown, two-time Pulitzer prize nominee, reads both poetry and fiction.
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1.20.09 [ podcast ]
David Kirby’s The House on Boulevard Street was nominated for a National Book Award. Listen as he reads from his new collection of poetry, The Temple Gate Called Beautiful.
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12.02.08 [ podcast ]
David Vann is the nationally bestselling memoirist of A Mile Down: The True Story of a Disastrous Career at Sea, featured on NPR, Voice of America, and Fox News. Listen as he reads from his new award-winning short story collection, Legend of a Suicide.
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11.18.08 [ podcast ]
Ethan Canin reads from his new novel, America America, then confesses that he wishes the election had never ended.
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11.11.08 [ podcast ]
Gretchen Legler reads from her latest book of nonfiction, On the Ice, and discusses her experiences living in Antarctica. Lisa Zimmerman’s follows with poems from her newest book, The Light At the Edge of Everything.
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10.21.08 [ podcast ]
Screenwriter and novelist Richard Price reads from his latest book, Lush Life.
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10.14.08 [ podcast ]
Katy Lederer reads from The Heaven-Sent Leaf, and Brian Turner reads from his award-winning first book, Here, Bullet. [ listen ]
9.30.08 [ podcast ]
Don Share is Senior Editor of Poetry . His collection Union was a finalist for the Boston Globe/PEN New England Winship Award for outstanding book. Listen to him read from his most recent collection of poems, Squandermania. [ listen ]
09.09.08 [ podcast ]
Steve Almond delivers a hilarious and uproarious reading of non-fiction pieces, guidelines for writers, and letters in response to hate mail from the frothing American right wing. Listen to the podcast to hear about Almond’s first handjob, how one ought to write a sex scene, and much much more. [ listen ]
09.02.08 [ podcast ]
Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Olen Butler reads from his most recent short story collection, Intercourse, and his forthcoming novel, Hell. [ listen ]
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5.08.2009
Interview: Nicki Richesin
“What the industry ‘experts’ think will sell is always debatable, but if you believe in your idea, you should never give up. ”
Read Nicki Richesin’s interview, and learn what to do and what to avoid when putting together an anthology. Also, how to handle agents and rejection. [ read ]
5.07.2009
Review: Dead Boys
“Admit that there is a certain stylistic affinity between Lange and Hammett or Chandler or even their bastard offspring Mickey Spillane, and you’re pretty close to discovering what Dead Boys manages to do, which is continuously remind us who its characters are not. ”
Josh McCall reviews Richard Lange’s Dead Boys. [ read ]
4.08.2009
Review: Knockemstiff
“Pollock builds up a fictionalized version of the real Knockemstiff, Ohio and populates it with a huge cast of degenerates, freaks, fetishists, bactine huffers, bodybuilders, draft dodgers, drug dealers, alcoholics, and the homeless, the obese, the incestuous, and the criminally insane. ”
Richard Garn and David Rodriguez take turns taking shots at Donald Ray Pollock’s Knockemstiff—or maybe those are garlands they’re passing out. [ read ]
4.02.2009
Interview with D.A. Powell
“I try not to reuse words more than a couple of times. Not the small words: “and,” “the,” “cock,” you can’t make a sentence without those words, but anything remotely unique.”
Few poets know how to dance in the face of melancholy like D. A. Powell. Powell’s new book, Chronic, now available from Graywolf Press, is a departure from his previous books in imagery as well as form, but he continues to spin a mirror ball in the same spotlight shared by disease. [ read ]
4.01.2009
Interview with Daniel Woodrell
“Just because a story’s set in a dark, dingy bar, and there’s a blonde at the bar who's not wearing any underwear, it doesn’t mean it’s a noir yet.”
Dustin Atkinson interviews Daniel Woodrell, author of eight novels including, most recently, Winter’s Bone. Reprinted from The Southeast Review, Vol. 26.2. [ read ]
3.30.2009
Interview with John Struloeff
“I can’t help but be aware of the way the people I’ve known, the places I’ve lived, and my experiences have all shaped me. ”
John Struloeff discusses his first book of poetry, The Man I Was Supposed to Be, his work ethic as a young poet, and the men who work in lumber camps in the Pacific Northwest. [ read ]
3.26.2009
Review: What You Call Winter
“Nalini Jones both calls on us to remember where we came from, and slips the knots that hold us there. ”
Katie Cortese reviews Nalini Jones’ What You Call Winter. [ read ]
3.20.2009
Review: No One Belongs Here More than You
“It’s because we long to be special when we are not that we are human. July captures this aching quality beautifully and brilliantly.”
J.W. Wang reviews Miranda July's No One Belongs Here More than You. [ read ]
3.11.2009
Interview with Richard Lange
“Have they never been desperate? Poor? Alone? Scared? Angry? Sad? Regretful? Crazy? If not, I guess they’re awfully lucky. Or blind. Or lying.”
Richard Lange, author of Dead Boys, discusses how nice the publishing industry can be…once you’re published. [ read ]
2.20.2009
“Write Your Own Valentine”
The Southeast Review would like to announce the winner of our AWP “Write Your Own Valentine” contest, Lindsay Marianna Walker. The contestants had to write a poem, a short short, or memoir—whatever would fit in the space between the hearts. The only stipulation was that it must contain the following SER Writing Regimen Riff Word (pulled from Day 3 of our next regimen!): Marshmallow.
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2.17.2009
Interview with Dale Peck
“I’m probably one of the few guys who can toss off a review of, say, a Star Wars movie, and have NPR call him for an interview about it. That’s fun enough, in its way. ”
Dale Peck discusses his newest book, Body Surfing, the advantages of working in both commercial and literary fiction, and why a critic who throws punches has to be able to roll with them too. [ read ]
2.9.2009
Interview with Brad Land
“That’s the highest goal with art: to create work that makes the reader feel something intensely; something that stays with them; something they want to return to again and again.”
Read this interview with Brad Land and hear his feelings on the 2008 election results, specifically, North Carolina going blue. Also, hear who influenced his writing and how he plots out a story. Nick Young conducted this interview in two-parts, on November 5th and November 7th over the phone and through G-Mail chat. [ read ]
The First 100 Days of Poetry
Every day for the next 100 days Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker will post a new poem by a contemporary American poet. Find out more about their project here.
1.23.2009
Interview with Erin McGraw
“Loving a character doesn’t mean that we give that character a bye.”
Read about how Erin McGraw fell in love with the long lost cauliflower fields of Los Angeles. [ read ]
1.6.2009
Interview with Arielle Greenberg
“Being a feminist means speaking up, without fear, about my own experiences as a woman, and for the rights of women, and for women’s experiences in general.”
Read about Arielle Greenberg’s philosophies on feminism and how having a child has affected her “brainspace.” [ read ]
12.17.2008
Poets on Process: Andrew Hudgins
“No, I am absolutely not a first thought, best thought kind of person. I consider first drafts a necessary evil to get to the good stuff and one of the hardest things that I had to learn as a writer was not to get depressed by early first versions of things.”
This is SER’s first episode of Poets on Process. Listen in as Andrew Hudgins discusses his writing process with Frank Giampietro. [ transcript & podcast ]
11.20.2008
Interview with Kenneth Hart
“So I think my poems are more representational—seeing something in the world, responding to it, and then there’s kind of a dialogue between me and the thing, or the thing and something else.”
Discover what kind of poetry moves Kenneth Hart and how he makes the balance between the abstract and the concrete in his book Uh Oh Time. [ read ]
11.13.2008
Interview with Rachel Zucker
“I’m obsessed with the spine. It seems so fragile, so smart, so important, so ridiculous.”
Read this interview with Rachel Zucker about her new book of poetry The Bad Wife Handbook and learn about her obsession with squirrels and how you can be a bad wife. [ read ]
11.12.2008
Interview with Sam Witt
“I’d like to attempt to seduce a woman I really care for with a poem I wrote just for her, then burn that poem the next day, whether it worked or not.”
Read about Sam Witt, the British-born poet who talks about the running themes in his poetry such as death and silence. Also, learn about his childhood obsession with a certain fictional character that led him to walk around his neighborhood in a silk dressing gown and fedora. [ read ]
Best New Poets 2008
Congratulations to Landon Godfrey whose poem “Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Soufflé Chiffon Gown” was chosen for inclusion in Best New Poets 2008. Godfrey’s poem was originally published in Volume 26.1 of The Southeast Review.
Landon Godfrey was born and raised in Washington, DC, and now lives in Black Mountain, NC, with her husband, Gary Hawkins. She works as a freelance writer and artist. Her poems have appeared in various journals, including The Southeast Review, Lyric, Chelsea, The Beloit Poetry Review, The Cimarron Review, and POOL, as well as the anthology Best New Poets 2008.
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