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Sept. 9, 2009: I’ve just had a story from my manuscript Making Love While Levitating Three Feet in the Air accepted by a beautiful and well-respected independent journal out of Wisconsin, Rosebud, which will publish “Little Murders” in its Winter 2009 issue, due out in December.

      Additionally, my short story “Clean,” also from Making Love, was recently accepted by Controlled Burn, to appear in Spring 2010.

Aug. 6, 2009: I’ve returned—and recovered!—from a three-week trip to Kazakhstan and have some news to catch up on:

      While overseas I had another of my Central Asian short stories accepted for publication. “Learning to Fly at the End of an Empire” will appear in either the Fall 2009 or Spring 2010 issue of Bayou Magazine.

      Also, my fiction chapbook Three Tales of Love, Sex, and Magic was recently named a finalist in Spire Press’s 2009 Special Prose Chapbook Contest. The winner and full list of finalists may be found on the Spire Press website.

      Finally, Alligator Juniper, the literary journal I work for as managing editor, has won the AWP Director’s Prize in Content for Undergraduate Literary Magazines! I can’t take credit for this—it was for last year’s issue, before I joined the staff—but I’m pleased to be part of a journal with such a strong track record: this is the third time in 13 years of publishing that Alligator Juniper has won this prestigious award. You can find a full press release on it here.

June 18, 2009: Two more of my short stories have been accepted for publication, by Potomac Review and Crab Orchard Review, both due out this fall. That means three out of my five linked tales set in Central Asia have been picked up. As soon as the remaining two are accepted, I’ll begin shopping around this mini-collection as a chapbook.

      Also, nine of the 13 stories in my first full-length collection have now been published, and I’ve recently completed a nonfiction manuscript as well, a carefully edited selection of my journals and letters (with a few poems sprinkled in) from my time overseas. Both manuscripts are making the rounds as I write this. Any takers?

May 1, 2009: I’m pleased to announce that within the past couple of weeks I’ve had poems accepted by If Poetry Journal and The Los Angeles Review, short stories accepted by Cantaraville and Arroyo Literary Review, and a personal essay published by Etude: New Voices in Literary Nonfiction. I’ll post more on this later, as I hope everyone will support these fine journals.

      I also read at Prescott College’s Earth Day extravaganza on 22 April and again with my wonderful and talented colleagues at the college’s Arts & Letters showcase on 25 April.

      Ah, spring is here, and new life and movement is in the air…

Jan. 20, 2009: My short story “She Was a Winter,” part of the short-story collection that I’m currently shopping around, has been accepted by Eureka Literary Magazine out of Eureka College in Illinois. My story will appear in the Spring 2009 issue.

Nov. 18, 2008: I’ve had two prose poems published by Protestpoems.org, an online journal devoted entirely to poetry that tackles human rights issues. It’s an important project, and I’m happy to play a small part in it.

Sept. 27, 2008: I’ll be giving a reading as part of the Prescott Area Arts & Humanities Council’s 4^th Annual Fall Arts Festival and Studio Tour. The reading will feature myself, K. L. Cook—author of Last Call (University of Nebraska Press, 2004) and The Girl from Charnelle (William Morrow, 2006; Harper Perennial, 2007)—and Prescott College students and alumni. It runs from 3-5 p.m. at Prescott College’s Granite Performing Arts Center, 218 N. Granite St.

July 2, 2008: I’ve accepted the position of managing editor of the literary journal Alligator Juniper at Prescott College in Arizona, beginning in August 2008. As part of my duties, I’ll also teach three sections of writing workshop this upcoming academic year. Alligator Juniper is an excellent journal—it won the AWP Prize for undergraduate literary magazines (content) in 2001 and 2004—and I look forward to maintaining and hopefully moving forward this tradition. Just being part of Prescott College excites me. The college’s tagline is, “For the Liberal Arts and the Environment,” and its location in the lively and beautiful mountain town of Prescott, nearly a mile (5,354 feet) above sea level, is perfect for both.

      Also, my interview with Wendell Berry is out in the current (July) issue of The Sun. If you can get your hands on a copy, I highly recommend this; it’s a fantastic and thought-provoking journal. If you can’t, they’ve posted the interview on their website, which is also worth checking out.

April 10, 2008: I will be co-conducting “Solitude and Story: A Contemplative Writing Workshop” with Dianne Aprile at the Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest from 17-18 May 2008. Please see my Workshops page for more information.

Oct. 8, 2007: My interview with author Wendell Berry has been accepted by The Sun, to appear sometime in early 2008. My review of Peter Chilson’s novella and short-story collection Disturbance-Loving Species (New York: Mariner Books, 2007) is scheduled to appear in Washington State Magazine, also in early 2008.

May 25, 2007: I’ve been hired as a Visiting Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University for the academic year 2007-8. Courses I will teach include ENG 200 (Introduction to Literature), ENG 203 (Creative Writing, which includes units on creative nonfiction, fiction, and poetry), and ENG 303 (Fiction Writing). I’m very pleased to remain at WKU for another year in this expanded role.

Feb. 27, 2007: I’ll be giving a Faculty Reading here at Western Kentucky University, along with my colleagues Sandra Wales (Ph.D., West Virginia University) and Rick Thompson (MFA, University of Montana), beginning at 7 p.m. in 125 Cherry Hall.

Feb. 21, 2007: What an incredible 13 months it’s been! Five acceptances for my writing, two national writing contest awards, and now two writing fellowships. I just learned that I’ve been selected for a Dorothy Norton Clay Fellowship at the Mary Anderson Center for the Arts in Mount St. Francis, Indiana. Founded in 1989 by the Mount St. Francis Friary, the center awards only two Clay fellowships per year. The ten-night writing residency, which includes a $200 stipend, is to be completed by 31 July 2007.

Feb. 20, 2007: I’ll be reading in Owensboro, Kentucky as part of the Third Tuesday Coffeehouse series sponsored by Brescia University, along with two of my colleagues at Western Kentucky University—Tom Hunley and Nancy Roberts—and Mari Beth Stanley. There will also be an Open Mic and an on-the-spot audience writing competition. It all runs from 7:00 to 9:30 p.m. in Woodward’s at the RiverPark Center, and it’s free. For more information, call (270) 686-4203 or e-mail david.bartholomy@brescia.edu.

Jan. 30, 2007: A good start to the new year: my short story “The Great Silver Cactus of Driggs, Idaho” has been accepted by Lake Effect, a journal out of Penn State-Erie that the NewPages Guide to Literary Magazines states is “Definitely worth checking out.”

      [Later note: this story was nominated by Lake Effect in 2008 for a Pushcart Prize!]

Dec. 12, 2006: My short story “Accomplices to a Tradition,” one of a series set in Kazakhstan, has been accepted by Rosebud Magazine—a highly regarded journal described by one reviewer as “Somewhere between the old Collier's and The New Yorker”—to appear in issue #38 in April 2007.

Oct. 30, 2006: I received an acceptance from the Blue Earth Review, the official literary journal of Minnesota State University—Mankato, for my poem “Little River Almanac.” Look for it in their upcoming Spring 2007 issue.

Aug. 28, 2006: I began my first day of classes as an English and Creative Writing instructor at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. My contract is for one academic year.

Aug. 16, 2006: I will be making my second appearance at The Jazz Factory in Louisville for their “Jazz and the Spoken Word” series. Please click on the link above for more information about and directions to this great jazz club.

Aug. 15, 2006: My Bernheim writing fellowship officially concludes.

Aug. 9, 2006: In conjunction with the Full “Red” Moon Night Hike, I will give a public reading at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. The reading is free of charge and does not require registration. It will begin at 8 p.m.; please bring yourself, your loved ones, and an interest in literature. The hike will begin at 8:30 p.m. and requires advance payment and registration. For more information, please visit Bernheim’s website. For directions, click here.

Aug. 8, 2006: My website goes live!  www.jeff-fearnside.com

July 23, 2006: Interview with author Wendell Berry at his Kentucky hillside farm.