Students

Students come from all over the country (and often other countries) and thrive in an atmosphere where they know each other and the faculty, where they can rely on other writers to keep their predilections and projects in mind. Quirky people with ambition, intricate histories, and riveting talent will be your cohort here. Some arrive fresh out of undergraduate degree programs, some interrupt perfectly good careers; all have in common a love of the written word to which they plan to do justice for the rest of their lives.

Traditionally they publish well—in magazines such as The Atlantic Monthly, Harper's, The New Yorker, Poetry, Missouri Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Prairie Schooner, Fence, Crab Orchard Review, Paris Review, Story—and in such anthologies as New Stories from the South, Scribner's Best of the Writing Workshops, Starlight I, AWP Intro Awards, Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize.

And they compete brilliantly for other forms of national recognition: members of the program have recently received the Ruth Lily Poetry Fellowship, The Wallace Stegner Fellowship, The Jacob Javits Fellowship, and The Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship. They've won a Yale Younger Poets prize, the 2001 AWP Award Series in Creative Non-Fiction prize, a New Millennium Writing Award in Poetry, and Atlantic Monthly Student Writing prizes in poetry, non-fiction and fiction.

Dozens of our graduates have published books with an array of presses covering the contemporary gamut, from Graywolf Press to the University of Mississippi Press, to Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Little, Brown. Our graduates hold influential editorial positions at magazines, major publishing houses, and on-line venues, and teach in private and public colleges and universities. Regardless of what they do when they leave here, they leave with a network of readers for their future productions, a developed sense of how to balance the needs of the writer with more workaday demands, and more often than not, lifelong friends.

While in the program, students are encouraged to tap the program's resources to facilitate artistic and professional development: currently they produce a reading series and a radio program, which attract large and enthusiastic audiences.

If you would like to be put in touch with a current student or wish to plan a campus visit, please contact the Graduate Student Assistant to the Program Director:

Danielle Roderick through August 15, 2005
Lili Loofbourow August 15, 2005 — August 15, 2006
205.348.2394
cwfifi@bama.ua.edu

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