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Our graduates publish and publish well. Here's a sampling of recent book publications by our students. Periodical publications are too numerous to list here.

Recent Books by Center Graduates

This is a selection of recent book publications by Center for Writers graduates, along with an occasional note about awards won. The Center is proud to help new writers find their voices, and to find publication, when that time comes. These graduates of the Center for Writers, among many others, have distinguished themselves in the literary community, and we are pleased to be able to give them notice here.


Anthony Neil Smith

Psychosomatic. Point Blank Books. Fall 2005.

 

 

 

Marcy Dermansky

Twins. New York, William Morrow. October 2005

 

 

Leilani Hall

Swimming the Witch.  Cherry Grove Collections. May 2005.

 

 

James Whorton, Jr.

Frankland. New York, Free Press, 2005
Approximately Heaven
. New York, Free Press, 2003

 

J. Madison Davis

Law & Order: Dead Line
The Van Gogh Conspiracy
The Vertigo Murders. New York, I Books, March 2002
Murderous Schemes (ed.)
And the Angels Sing
Bloody Marko
White Rook

 

 

 

 

 

Victor Gischler

Gun Monkeys
Pistol
Poets. New York: Delacorte Press, 2004
Suicide Squeeze
. New York: Delacorte Press, 2005

 

   

Jean-Marc Sens

Appetite (poems). Los Angeles, The Red Hen Press, 2004

 

 

Matt Morris

Nearing Narcoma (poems).
Winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award

 

 

Ross Gresham

Leap of the Heart: Andre Dubus Talking. New Orleans, Xavier Review Press, 2003

 

 

Steven Carter

I Was Howard Hughes. New York, Bloomsbury USA, 2003

 

Victoria Lancelotta

Here In the World. New York, Counterpoint Press, 2003
Far
. New York, Counterpoint Press, 2003
Transatlantic Award Winner

 

Michael Knight

Dogfight
Divining Rod
Goodnight, Nobody.
New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003
Winner, 1996 Playboy Fiction Award

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Holman

Squabble
Luminous Mysteries

 

Ben Neihart

Hey Joe
Burning Girl
Rough Amusements.
New York, Bloomsbury USA, 2003

 

   

Andy Plattner

Winter Money
Flannery O'Connor Award Winner

 

 

James Kimbrell

The Gatehouse Heaven
Three Poets of Modern Korea
(translations)
Whiting Award Winner

 

Greg Mulcahy

Out of Work
Constellation

 

John Henry Fleming

The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman

 

 

W.T.Pfefferle

The Poetry of Place
Writing That Matters

 

Julie Fleming

Moving Lila

 

 

Paul Ruffin

Ruffin has published two novels, two collections of stories, five books of poetry, and a book of essays, and has edited or co-edited eight other books. He is 1997 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Award winner, Editor of The Texas Review, and Director of the Texas Review Press

 

T.R. Hummer

Lower Class Heresy
Angelic Orders

 

David Breeden

Another Number
Surviving the Coup
. Greensboro, NC: March Street Press, 2003.
Artistas
. Superiorbooks.com, December 2000.
The Guiltless Traveler
.  March Street Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1996.
Building A Boat
.  March Street Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1995.  
Double Headed End Wrench
. Bristol, Indiana: The Cloverdale Press, 1992.
Hey, Schliemann
. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.
Picnics
.  Arlington, Virginia: Black Buzzard Press, 1985.

 

Tony Markham

The Jaxon Files

 

 

Jeanne Lebow

The Outlaw James Copeland and the Champion-Belted Empress
Fulbright Scholar

 

 
     

 

 

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