Mark Spitzer, assistant professor of writing, recently published two books: Season of the Gar, a creative nonfiction collection by the University of Arkansas Press, and CHODE!, a novel by Six Gallery Press. He was also recently interviewed on the nationally broadcast “World Talk” program of WorldStreams Radio and had his short story “The Feckless Fate of Mother Kralik’s Island” accepted for publication in The DF Underground. Part One of his poem “Snakehead Terror” was accepted for publication in Slash Pine Press: 2010 Poetry Festival Anthology . Spitzer will be a featured reader at the 2010 Slash Pine Poetry Festival at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa on April 24. He was also a featured reader at the Northwestern University Press/&Now Reading at the AWP Conference in Denver, where he did a book-signing for the University of Arkansas Press as well and debuted Exquisite Corpse Annual #2, a national literary journal published by UCA’s Department of Writing. Spitzer will read from his new book Season of the Gar, recently published by the University of Arkansas Press, at 7 p.m. on April 29 at the Faulkner County Library. A Q&A session and book-signing will follow. This event is free and open to the public. The library is located at 1900 Tyler St.,Conway. For more info call Jeanetta Darley at (501)327-7482.
Stephanie Vanderslice, associate professor of writing, and Joanna Castner Post, assistant professor of writing, have an article in a new collection published this month by the National Council of Teachers of English. The article is titled, “Rounding Up the Horses; the Carts Are Racing Downhill: Programmatic Catch-Up to a Quickly Growing Concurrent Credit Program,” and it appears in College Credit for Writing in High School: The “Taking Care” of Business.
Jennifer Deering, lecturer, and Joanna Castner Post, assistant professor of writing, will present their paper, “Digital Literacy Experiences and Understandings: A Survey of College Freshmen Provides a Useful Picture for Writing Center Directors,” at the 2010 South Central Writing Centers Association Conference in Lake Charles, LA.