By JOSH WILD, Poetry Editor
We here at SR would like to extend our congratulations to contributing poet Ryan Teitman for being awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship for the 2010-2012 school years. Ryan’s poem, “Ode to a Hawk with Wings Burning,” is featured in our current issue, as well as here online (to read the poem, just scroll about halfway down this page or click here).
The Stegner Fellowship, a two-year appointment out of Stanford University, allows the recipient time to write with no curricular or teaching responsibilities. With a $26,000 stipend, a tuition remission and health care provided, the Stegner is one of the most competitive fellowships in the nation; ten recipients (five poets and five fiction writers) were selected this year out of a pool of nearly 1800 applicants. Some past fellows include Raymond Carver, ZZ Packer, Lan Samantha Chang and Robert Pinsky.
Again, congratulations Ryan!
BY KRISTIN GRIFFIN, Visiting Writers Series Coordinator
Purdue University is bringing a number of outstanding writers and illustrators to West Lafayette this fall, including TC Boyle, Jean Valentine, Joyce Brabner and Frank Stack. Sycamore Review will be sponsoring several of the events, including a debut writers day with poet Julia Story and novelist Jessica Anthony and our annual Writers Community Harvest event, which will bring in donations for local charities. Check out our Reading Series page for all the details, and stay tuned for news about our spring reading series!
BY ANTHONY COOK, Editor-in-Chief
I’m excited to announce that donations to Sycamore Review can now be made online! Giving to SR not only helps keep a great journal in print–it also helps fund our literacy outreach efforts (check out our Looseleaf page for more information). Now, making a contribution is easier than ever. We’ll list you as a patron in upcoming issues of the journal and on our website, and if you give more than $50, you’ll also recieve a free one-year subscription. Click on the “Donate” section at the top of the page for more information. And thank you to all those individuals and organizations who help make Sycamore Review great!
Have you spent the summer polishing those manuscripts? We hope so. Sycamore Review’s reading period is now open!
After our summer hiatus, we are once again accepting submissions in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction for our next issue. With the opening of this reading session, we’re also rolling out our new online submission manager. Beginning August 15, 2010, we will ONLY accept submissions through the submission manager. We will no longer be accepting postal submissions, except for our annual Wabash Prizes in Poetry and Fiction, which must be submitted by mail.
To submit, read our submission guidelines, then follow the link to our submission manager to set up an account and submit your work. Our hope is that you’ll save money on printing and postage, and that in return we’ll be able to respond more quickly to your work.
Big changes at Sycamore Review this year! We have a new fiction editor, Conor Broughan, a new non-fiction editor, Chidelia Edochie, and, when our reading period begins on August 1st, we will be accepting submissions via our new online submission manager.
Switching to online submissions will make us a much more efficient journal. It will help us read and respond faster to your work by eliminating some of the busy work necessary to process snail mail submissions, and allow us to devote more time and energy toward making sure each issue of Sycamore Review is better than the last.
We recognize that some or our submitters might have their manuscripts packed and ready to drop in the mail on August 1st, so we will still accept submissions via snail mail until August 15th. But afterward, all submissions should be made through the submission manager.
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 I grew up in Alexandria, Virginia before moving to Providence, Rhode Island to pursue a BA in Literature at Providence College. Following graduation, I moved to New York where I worked in academic publishing for several years. I currently live in Lafayette, Indiana where I am pursuing an MFA in fiction at Purdue University.
I look forward to the upcoming reading period because I couldn’t be more excited to read your work. Last semester, I had the pleasure of serving as the Assistant Fiction Editor and I was impressed by the submissions I had the opportunity to read and eventually help edit. Over the next year, I plan to speed-up the response time for your submissions and also diversify the fiction that we publish in each issue.
Submit the story that you’ve surprised yourself with. Submit a story that took …MORE
ISSUE 22.2 is here! It’s our largest issue in years, bringing you more fiction, poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews. You’ll find fascinating interviews with writer Benjamin Percy and poet Eleanor Wilner; new poetry from David Wagoner, Matthew Lippman, and Deborah Slicer; a hilarious story by Brock Clarke; and the winner of the 2010 Wabash Prize for Fiction, which guest judge Peter Ho Davies calls “a quietly, almost furtively, heartbreaking story.”
You’ll also find an essay about pen pals from writer Lisa Lee, a haunting story about used clothing from Shannon Robinson, impressive artwork from Amber Albrecht, and reviews of new books by Tony Hoagland, Elizabeth Gilbert, and others.
Subscribers can expect the new issue to arrive in their mailboxes any day now. Not a subscriber? Don’t miss out on this exciting issue. Check out our subscription page to order your copy today.
 Before coming to Purdue, I lived in Brooklyn, New York, where I worked for three years at Ralph Vicinanza Limited, a literary agency whose clients included Augusten Burroughs and Stephen King. I come to the position of Managing Editor with big ideas. Already, a process has been set in motion that will hopefully elevate Sycamore Review’s standing in the literary world. When our reading period begins on August 1st, we will be taking submissions online (more on that in a future post), and there are plenty more positive changes to come.
 Chidelia Edochie lived and wrote in the southern Chinese city of Guǎngzhōu for almost 2 years before making the move to West Lafayette, Indiana, where Sycamore Review is headquartered. She originally hails from Stone Mountain, Georgia, then lived in New York City during her undergraduate years, and ultimately settled in China, making her a rather rootless woman. That’s probably why it is the fiction and nonfiction in which humans have been uprooted, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, whether physically or emotionally, that speaks to her so.
Chidelia’s fiction has won numerous awards, including the Joan Jakobson Award “given to writers of unusual promise,” and a scholarship granted by AWP. Recently, her writing and reading efforts have shifted toward creative nonfiction. As Nonfiction Editor for Sycamore Review, she is looking for memoir, personal essays, experiential journalism/personal reportage, and …MORE
BY ANTHONY COOK, Editor-in-Chief
It’s a sad fact of life here at Sycamore Review. Because we are a graduate student-run publication, our editors change every year or two. This summer, four staffers will be leaving us: Managing Editor Katie Connor, Fiction Editor James Xiao, Nonfiction Editor Ruth Joynton, and Assistant Director of Creative Writing Chris Arnold. Each of these editors have made significant contributions to the journal.
Katie has been the driving force behind our continued ability to grow. Not only has she kept us financially viable during tough times, but she’s managed to expand and improve our Looseleaf Writing Program as well. This year, the program has reached students at local schools, community members at local libraries, and youth from Tippecanoe County’s home for children. She’ll be sorely missed.
James has shaped the journal’s fiction content for the past two years. During his time here, he has refused to …MORE
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