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Curtis Sittenfeld Reads at CofC

March 28, 2023 | blog, readings
Hanna Reynditskiy (Fiction, ’24) & Emilie Ross (Fiction, ’24) On the evening of March 14th, Curtis Sittenfeld read to a full house at Randolph Hall, Alumni Hall. The audience buzzed with excitement, but before Sittenfeld stepped up to the podium to read, MFA director, Anthony Varallo, greeted the audience, presented an overview of Sittenfeld’s work,...

Catching Up with 2022 Fiction Prize Winner A.J. Rodriguez

January 18, 2023 | blog, interviews
A.J. Rodriguez was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MFA from the University of Oregon, where he was the recipient of the Logsdon Fiction Award. He is the winner of Fractured Lit’s Anthology Prize, the Gival Press Short Story Award, and CRAFT’s Flash Fiction Contest. His work...

Catching Up with 2022 Nonfiction Prize Winner Courtney Kersten

January 10, 2023 | Awards, blog
Courtey Kersten is the author of Daughter in Retrograde: A Memoir (University of Wisconsin Press 2018). Her essays have been published in River Teeth, Hotel Amerika, and Prairie Schooner, among other journals, and have been awarded the Bellingham Review’s Annie Dillard Award, the Southern Indiana Review’s Mary C. Mohr Award in Creative Nonfiction, and been...

Industry Talk with Literary Agent Jamie Carr

December 6, 2022 | blog, readings
Tanner Crunelle (Poetry, ’24) & Ellen Gwin (Poetry, ’24) Our English Department has some amazing alumni. Jamie Carr, class of 2012, a literary agent for The Book Group, visited campus on Thursday, October 27th to speak with an audience of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, and administrators. This visit was made possible by the Dorothea...

What started swamp pink?

February 22, 2022 | blog, news
Nearly twenty years ago, Crazyhorse found a home at the College of Charleston. Between then and now, we’ve taken great pride in publishing exceptional writing. For a time, admittedly, our objective seemed clear and singular. We have arrived at a place where the holistic nature of what we do—the symbolic properties of what we are and the...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Jung Hae Chae

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Jung Hae Chae is a Korean-American writer. She is winner of the 2021 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize and the 2019 Emerging Writers Contest in Nonfiction from Ploughshares. Her work has appeared (or will soon) in AGNI, Crazyhorse, Guernica, New England Review, Ploughshares, and elsewhere, and has been included in the Pushcart Prize collection. She is currently at work on a memoir that examines...

Catching Up with 2021 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Mary Clark

October 26, 2021 | blog, interviews
Mary Clark grew up in Baltimore and after many years of living in Massachusetts, returned to her roots to write novels. She earned an MFA in Poetry from The University of Iowa. Her poems and stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Fiction, The Iowa Review, New England Review, and will appear in J Journal: New Writing...

Joy Is the Garden: A Review of Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil's Lace & Pyrite

June 21, 2021 | blog, book reviews
Z.L. Nickels Lace & Pyrite 19 pp. Get Fresh Books. $10.00 The most neglected book of garden poems you have never read is not really a book at all. Rather, it is a reprint of an unheralded contribution to literature’s epistolary project, a small gathering of poems-as-letters by two of this country’s best poets, Ross...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Winner Dawn D'Aries

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Dawn D’Aries was a finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction. “The Super’s Wife” represents parts pulled together from a full-length work of creative nonfiction. As an editor and journalist, she has written on a variety of news and feature topics, and counts The Rumpus among her most recent creative nonfiction credits....

Catching Up with 2020 Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize Winner Daniel Schonning

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Daniel Schonning is the poetry winner of the 2020 Crazyhorse Prizes contest. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Magazine, Puerto del Sol, Guesthouse, and elsewhere. He studies and teaches in Colorado, where he is currently working on a book of abecedarians. CH: How would you describe yourself as both a person and...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Nonfiction Prize Finalist Bridget Lyons

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Bridget A. Lyons is a writer and editor living in Santa Cruz, California. A graduate of Harvard University, she holds an MFA from Northern Arizona University and has had previous lives as a middle school teacher, wilderness guide, yoga instructor, energy bar maker, and graphic designer. Bridget is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has...

Catching Up with 2020 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize Winner Jack Ortiz

November 2, 2020 | blog, interviews
Jack Ortiz received his MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he won the August Derleth Prize. “They’re More Afraid of You” is his first published story. … … … … … CH: How did you first hear about Crazyhorse? JO: When I was an undergrad, I was researching fiction contests, and I submitted to...