Congratulations: To Kristel Thornell

Kristel Thornell Creative Writing MA 2002 Co-winner of 2009 The Australian/Vogel Prizefor the novel Night Street $20,000.00 Australian Dollars and publication by Allen & Unwin

Based on the life of Melbourne artist Clarice Beckett (1887-1935), Night Street tells the story of Clarice, a prolific landscape painter working in the city and suburbs of Melbourne in the early decades of the twentieth century. Her highly atmospheric, enigmatic landscapes find little favour with the critics who disparage her style and subjects. But despite an indifferent art world and a seemingly confined existence as a spinster daughter in the parental home, Clarice leads an intense and sensual private life and has an extraordinary talent for making simple city and seascapes haunting and mysteriously revelatory.

Reading Series 1st Event

For the first event in this year's reading series, UNB's new writer-in-residence, Fred Stenson will be reading on September 16th at the Alumni Memorial Building.

Stenson is the author of fifteen books, including The Trade, which was shortlisted for the Giller Prize in 2000. His new novel, The Great Karoo is a nominee for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book.

Please join us for the reading on Wednesday, September 16th at 8:00 pm in the Alumni Memorial Building Lounge.

6th Annual Poetry Weekend

This year's Poetry Weekend will be the best to date. We have a number of distinguished poets visiting.

Poetry Weekend: Oct 3-4, Saturday and Sunday at 11am, 2pm, and 8pm.

The weekend features renowned poets

· A.F. Moritz (this year's Griffin winner)

· Kevin Connolly (Griffin short-list)

· Sue Sinclair (International Independent Publishers' Award for The Drunken, Lovely Boat, UNB graduate)

· John Donlan (Brick Editor)

· John Reibetanz (Petra Kenney International Poetry Prize)

· Anita Lahey (ARC Editor)

· Katia Grubsic (winner of this year's League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Prize, UNB graduate)

· Holly Luhning (Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University, UNB graduate) Jeffery Donaldson

· Wayne Clifford

· Matt Robinson (winner of this year's Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, UNB graduate)

· Shane Neilson (Frog Hollow Press Editor)

· Zachariah Wells

· Rachel Lebowitz

· Karen Schindler

Book launches by

· Brent MacLaine (this year's Atlantic Poetry Prize)

· Christina McRae

· Johnny Barger

· Vanessa Moeller (ArtsNB staff, UNB graduate)

· Jesse Ferguson (current UNB PhD)

And local poets

· Sharon McCartney

· Gerry Beirne

· Michael deBeyer

· Tammy Armstrong (current UNB PhD)

· James Langer (current UNB PhD)

· Bob Moore (UNBSJ faculty member)

· Jennifer Houle (UNB graduate)

As well as the UNB Creative Writing students!

UNB Students Crowned with the Malahats

Congratulations to:

Matt Robinson: Creative Writing MA, 2000
The Malahat Long Poem Prize $500 for "against the hard angle"

Shane Rhodes: Creative Writing MA, 1998
The P. K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry $1,000 recognizes the best poem published in 2009 for "For Donnie Peters (1964-1999)"

UNB Students Sweep up the Grain Awards

$ 1, 250.00 to each Winner!!

Congratulations to:

Matthew Heiti: Creative Writing MA, current
Short Grain Fiction Prize for "Snakeskin Boots"

Danny Jacobs Creative Writing MA, 2008
Short Grain Poetry Prize for "How to Shoot Skeet with My Grandfather's Lost Double Barrell"

Congratulations: To Jesse Ferguson

Jesse Ferguson, PhD English , on the publication of his poem MAMA appears in Harper's magazine January 2009

Congratulations: To James Arthur

James Arthur, Creative Writing MA 2001, on the publication of his poem The Death of Painter in The New Yorker in March, 2007. James now holds a prestigious Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University