Jeremiah Chamberlin

This spring The Nashville Review will release its inaugural issue. The journal is supported by Vanderbilt University and will be published triquarterly. Though the list of work included in this first issue hasn’t been released yet, we were pleased to see some FWR favorites as Contributing Editors: Kevin Wilson, whose collection Tunneling to the Center of the Earth was one of our 2009 favorites; Salvatore Scibona, author of The End, whose interview with contributor Michael Hinken we published in March of 2009; and Patrick O’Keefe, author of the The Hill Road, which won the story prize in 2006. The journal […]

Cody Walker, friend of FWR and author of the fantastic poetry collection Shuffle and Breakdown (Waywiser Press, 2008), has just had his caption selected as a finalist for the New Yorker’s most recent cartoon contest. Congratulations! To vote for Cody’s caption, or to see the other two finalists, click here. Walker, who was voted The Populist Poet of Seattle, Washington, now teaches writing at the University of Michigan. Reviewing Shuffle and Breakdown, the Seattle Times wrote: It’s not every poet who can pull off a book that combines a high-brow reference to Walt Whitman (the title, Shuffle and Breakdown, is taken from Leaves […]

The official list for the 2010 Pen/O. Henry Prize winners was released recently and we are pleased to announce that two FWR Contributors will have work in this year’s anthology: Natalie Bakopoulos, whose story “Fresco, Byzantine” was published in the Fall 2008 issue of Tin House, and Preeta Samarasan, whose story “Birch Memorial” was published in Issue 6 of A Public Space. Congratulations! The anthology, which is edited by Laura Furman, features Junot Díaz, Yiyun Li, and Paula Fox as this year’s prize jury. Here is the complete list of authors and selected stories: “Them Old Cowboy Songs” Annie Proulx “Clothed, Female […]