Lisa Hase Jackson ‘15 Wins MFA交谈 Book Prize
的 Converse Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing and Clemson University Press announce the 2023 万博地址MFA校友图书奖 winner, Lisa Hase-Jackson ' 15, 的作者 另一个城镇的失眠. Zorina Frey ’23 was the runner-up for the book 歧视你.S. 一个故事, Hannah Marshall ’20 was a finalist for the book 好可以接受的形状.
Lisa Hase-Jackson is the 的作者 the poetry collection 弗林特 & 火 (的 Word Works, 2019), which was selected for the 2019 Hilary Tham Capital Collection Series. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals including Cimarron Review, South Carolina Review, 妈妈蛋评论. Awarded residencies at the Kimmel Harding-Nelson Center for the Arts and Vermont Studio Center, 她的作品也可以在 热炉子上的冰 (克莱姆森大学出版社)和 狡猾的诗人 (水龟出版社)选集. She has taught at universities and writing workshops across the country. Hase-Jackson is the Chief Managing Editor of 南85日报的创始编辑 津加拉诗歌评论.
Claire Bateman, poet and 的作者 nine books, served as this year’s judge. 在选择获胜者的过程中, Bateman stated that all the manuscripts distinguished themselves and each writer possessed a “wonderfully distinct voice.”
Regarding selecting Jackson as the 2023 winner, Bateman said, “另一个城镇的失眠 is a peripatetic exploration of place and displacement; animal life and strange weathers; the exigencies of race, class, gender as childhood memories emit a dark radiance by which to navigate the present. 的se poems are quietly perceptive, unflinching.”
出自哈斯-杰克逊的诗:
的re is no small grief…/for all are/interconnected. One touch/sends tremors through our core/like the fly in the web/that wakes the spider at its center.
贝特曼继续, “然而, there’s significant courage here with grace notes of buoyancy as readers are reawakened to joy in bird song along the power lines/and between the tunes/on the radio,/the interstices/of thoughts/no one thinks about.”
的 万博地址MFA校友图书奖 is part of a publishing partnership between the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Converse and Clemson University Press. 的 Clemson-Converse Literature Series 发布 a diverse and distinguished body of contemporary poetry, 短篇小说, 创造性非小说类 essay collections.
While the series will occasionally feature an outstanding anthology, the majority of the books are selected through two competitions, each of which runs biennially: a national poetry prize for a full-length book, an award open to all poets publishing in English, the MFA交谈 校友 Book Award Series, open to alumni of the Converse Low-Residency MFA.
Converse’s MFA in Creative Writing 是两年, co-educational low residency program for serious, independent writers seeking advanced instruction in poetry, 小说, 青少年小说, 创造性非小说类. Converse’s unique MFA program also offers a second genre option, which allows students to minor in a second genre for a semester alongside their major writing genre during their studies.
的 万博地址MFA校友图书奖 is awarded every two years to a MFA交谈 graduate who has entered an original book-length manuscript into its contest. All submitted manuscripts are judged anonymously by a writer of national distinction, the 的作者 the winning manuscript(s) is awarded a standard royalty book contract with publication by Clemson University Press.
克莱姆森大学出版社编辑, 发布, distributes each prize-winning book, 另外,获胜者将被邀请, 所有费用已付, to 给 a public reading from the winning manuscript at the MFA交谈 program’s residency session.