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Rebecca Makkai: Searching for Truth in Reality TV

March 21, 2017 | news, readings
Chicago-based author and 2017 Pushcart Prize winner Rebecca Makkai visited The College of Charleston campus Thursday, March 16, as part of the Crazyhorse Reading Series. Her stories have appeared in Ploughshares, Harper’s, and Tin House. She was introduced by Professor and Crazyhorse Fiction Editor Anthony Varallo. “I first became aware of Rebecca’s writing after reading...

T. Geronimo Johnson Reads from Braggsville

March 14, 2017 | news, readings
Standing at the podium in Randolph Hall, T. Geronimo Johnson reads the first chapter of his most recent novel, Welcome to Braggsville. Johnson forgoes the microphone, his voice resounding throughout the room. When he finishes, he tells the audience, “I want to thank you for not laughing at that first part.” The start of the novel...

Shelley Wong, Pushcart Prize

November 17, 2016 | news
Congratulations to Shelley Wong, 2017 Pushcart Prize winner for her poem “The Spring Forecast,” which was recently published in the Pushcart Prize XLI Best of the Small Presses anthology. Shelley’s work was nominated by Emily Rosko, Raena Shirali, and Michael Marberry and first appeared in Crazyhorse issue no. 88.  Additionally, a Pushcart Special Mention goes to Erika Krouse for...

Congratulations to Dana Fitz Gale

November 10, 2016 | news
Crazyhorse is thrilled to congratulate past contributor Dana Fitz Gale, on her book Spells for Victory and Courage, winner of the Brighthorse Books award. Her short story collection includes “Jester,” originally published in issue no. 84. The story is about “a clown…a strange one, with a moth-pale face and smeary, charcoal eyes” who picks on the wrong...

Crazyhorse Reading Series: Kamilah Aisha Moon and Rachel Eliza Griffiths

September 28, 2016 | news, readings
In Arnold Hall, Gary Jackson, associate poetry editor at Crazyhorse, stands at the podium to introduce Kamilah Aisha Moon and Rachel Eliza Griffiths, two poets whose poignant voices have drawn over 100 people to tonight’s reading. After he thanks the many people who made the reading possible, he extends special thanks to Natalie Diaz, a...

English Faculty Reading: Raena Shirali & Lindsey Drager

September 6, 2016 | news, readings
Chairs are lined in rows between the columns within Randolph Hall, most of them taken well before the reading begins. Anthony Varallo, fiction editor at Crazyhorse, stands at the podium. The crowd’s conversations slow and then stop as he welcomes them to this year’s first reading and thanks them for braving the threat of Hurricane...

What Last Year's Winners Have to Say about the Crazyhorse Prizes...

November 24, 2015 | news
Every year, writers at all stages of their careers submit their work to the Crazyhorse Prizes in fiction, nonfiction, & poetry. And a panel of judges (for 2016, it’s Joan Silber for fiction, Brenda Miller for nonfiction, and Khaled Mattawa for poetry) select a winner in each genre to receive a prize of $2,000 and...

Crazyhorse Reading Series: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

November 17, 2015 | news, readings
  We have a microphone, and we have a music stand, and we have Gabrielle Calvocoressi. “I have a really loud voice,” she says, testing the microphone. Her voice is indeed loud, not in a way that silences us, but a way that invites us in. She starts with a request. “I want to do something, see...