Newsletter of the
Society
Volume 9; May 2002
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Inside...Lynn Freed Awarded First KAP PrizeBibliography Porter Activities Katherine Anne Power, J.F. Powers, and Katherine A. Powers ALA 2001 Play Based on Porter Performed in Austin Jiménez-Porter Writers' House at University of Maryland KAP House KAP School Other short articles
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KAP Fiction Prize at University of Maryland
The winners of the annual graduate student poetry and fiction competitions sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Maryland read from their works on April 24 in the McKeldin Library Special Events Room. The Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize went to Alison Stine for "The Animal Heart." Patchen Mortimer's "Hollow" received second prize, and, third, Bo Schwerin for "Snow Monkey Madness." The Porter Prize was established with an endowment from the Literary Trust of the Estate of Katherine Anne Porter, during the tenure of the late Isabel Bayley.
2003 Conference on American Literature in CambridgeThe Katherine Anne Porter Session at the forthcoming American Literature Association conference will be chaired by Darlene Unrue of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The topic for the session will be "Parallels and Influence: Katherine Anne Porter and Other Writers." Anyone interested in submitting a proposal should send a 150-word abstract to Darlene Unrue, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of English, 4504 Maryland Parkway, Box 455011, Las Vegas, NV 89154. Her e-mail address is unrued@nevada.edu; the departmental FAX is 702-895-4801. The deadline for submissions is December 15, 2002. The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 22-25, 2003. Details of the conference and information about hotel reservations will appear on the home page of the American Literature Association (http://www.americanliterature.org). |