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• McNeese alum Adam Johnson has been awarded the prestigious Whiting Writer's Award. The $50,000 award, funded by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, is given annually to ten emerging American writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. Previous winners include Denis Johnson, Michael Cunningham, ZZ Packer, and Tobias Wolff.

• Darrell Bourque, this year’s Leo Marcello Visiting Poet, will share poems from his many collections on Saturday, September 26 at 8:00 p.m. in the Alumni Stream Center. Bourque is Professor Emeritus in English from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and served as the Louisiana Poet Laureate during 2007-08. He was recently reappointed to the position for a two-year term. Bourque’s forthcoming books include Call and Response: A Conversation in Verse with Jack Bedell (Texas Review Press, 2009) and In Ordinary Light: New and Selected Poems (University of Louisiana Press, 2010). Neil Connelly, Director of McNeese’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, says “Darrell’s poetry is much like Darrell himself: warm, bright, loaded with wit and wisdom.” The reading, sponsored by the MFA Program, will be open to the public.

• Former graduate student Michelle Reed has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Arkansas Review for her story, "A Single Woman's Guide to Loving your Thirties."

• Elizabeth Genovise's story "Burl Wood" has been accepted for publication by Yemassee.

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