Accolades
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A list of the many fine publications by the graduates of the Creative Writing Program is here.
2013
Professor Rob Gray is shooting his first New Brunswick film, zack & luc, in May and is working with several UNB students on the production. It's possible to follow the production's progress online in the film's Facebook group.
Professor Len Falkenstein’s new play, Utopia, won second place in the Ottawa Little Theatre's National One-Act Playwriting Competition: as part of the prize, the play will get a rehearsed reading in Ottawa on April 20, 2013. The play will also be performed by the Saint John Theatre Company in Saint John April 11-13, 2013.
Professor Mark Jarman has been invited to be part of a Distinguished Lecture series on Canadian Studies at University College Dublin. He’ll be speaking on April 2, 2013.
Professor Demetres Tryphonopoulos has recently returned from the Rosenbach Museum and Library in Philadelphia, where he presided over a panel discussion that followed a performance based on H.D.'s story "Aegina" and Marianne Moore's poem "Marriage." The Rosenbach is home to the papers of Marianne Moore.
Congratulations to Professor and Dean Emerita Gwen Davies, on being awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Royal Society of Canada, one of several awarded by the Royal Society to its members in commemoration of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee. The medal was presented to her by UNB President Dr. H.E.A. (Eddy) Campbell on behalf of the society on March 12, 2013.
Professor Mark Jarman won second prize in Prairie Fire's fiction contest with an excerpt from his Italian book. The issue of Prairie Fire that includes his story will be out in summer.
Professor Stephen Schryer won a UNB Merit Award for 2013.
Congratulations to PhD student Sara Dunton, who has won a Pam and John Little Overseas Scholarship to support her research in the UK later this year.
Professor Wendy Robbins was recently invited to speak at a symposium at the University of California Berkeley School of Law on the experience of academic women of colour; she has been invited to publish the talk, which comes from her book on life-writing by academic women in Canada, in the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice.
2012
Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 student creative writing prizes:
- Linnea Fetter--the Bliss Carman Memorial Prize
- Katherine Murray--the David H. Walker Prize
- Richie MacFarlane--the Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Prize.
The Fiddlehead won a National Magazine Award for the publication of Stephen Heighton's story, "Shared Room on Union." The Fiddlehead also received two honourable mentions for fiction and two for poetry.
Congratulations to Karen Solie (Writer-in-Residence 2006-2007) on the success of her new collection of poetry, Pigeon, which has received the following awards: The Griffin Prize for poetry (now Canada's most prestigious award for poetry), The Pat Lowther Prize for the Best Poetry Book in Canada Written by a Woman, and The Ontario Trillium Award for Poetry.
Congratulations to Tania Breen, Professor Len Falkenstein and Mike Johnston, all of whom were nominated for the Allan P. Stuart Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012.
Professor Stephen Schryer's book, Fantasies of the New Class: Ideologies of Professionalism in Post-World War II American Fiction (Columbia UP, 2011), is the co-winner of this year's Robert K. Martin prize, for the best monograph in American Studies, awarded by CAAS, the Canadian Association for American Studies.
Professor Edie Snook won a UNB Merit Award for 2012.
Professor Mark Jarman had two stories nominated for National Magazine Awards.
Professor Ross Leckie received the following good words in ARC Poetry Magazine, reviewing The Best of Canadian Poetry 2010: "Leckie's poem, 'The Critique of Pure Reason,' is my vote for Best of the Best Canadian Poetry, for its sublime meld of the glittering external world with the constant churning of the human quest to really know what it is we know."
Professor Edie Snook's book, Women, Beauty and Power in Early Modern England: A Feminist Literary History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice Reviews.
Sasha Dence’s novel manuscript "Falling Ice," won the H.R. (Bill) Percy Prize (novel category), awarded by the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
Professor Stephen Schryer was shortlisted for the Arts Faculty Teaching Award this spring.
Congratulations to Matt Robinson (PhD, 2008) on his tenure-track teaching position at St. Thomas University. Matt teaches American literature.
2011
Professor Diana Austin was the recipient of a 3M National Teaching Fellowship.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 student creative writing prizes:
- Michael Jessome--the Bliss Carman Memorial Prize
- Peter Foresestell--the David H. Walker Prize
- Nikki Chapman--the Sir Charles G.D. Roberts Prize
Congratulations to Professor Mark Jarman, who won two prizes: 1st Prize in SubTerrain Magazine's Creative Nonfiction Contest and 3rd Prize in Prairie Fire's Fiction Contest. His chapbook, Knife in the Head, was published by Frog Hollow Press.
The History of British Women's Writing, 1500-1610 (Palgrave, 2010), edited by Jennifer Summit and Caroline Bicks, was awarded the 2011 Society for the Study of Early Modern Women's Collaborative Project Award. Professor Edie Snook contributed an essay to this project. The book is part of a ten-volume series on women's writing from the medieval period to the present.
Professor Jennifer Andrews won a UNB Merit Award for 2011. Congratulations, too, on the publication of her book In the Belly of a Laughing God: Humour and Irony in Native Women's Poetry (University of Toronto Press, 2011).
Professor Randall Martin's collection of essays, Shakespeare/Adaptation/Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill Levenson, co-edited with Katherine Scheil, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.
Congratulations to Professor John Ball, editor of the World Fiction volume of the three-volume Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Fiction, published by Wiley-Blackwell under the general editorship of Brian Shaffer.
The Ezra Pound Encyclopedia, co-edited by Professor Demetres Tryphonopoulos with Stephen J. Adams, was translated into Japanese.
Congratulations to PhD student Tammy Armstrong, who won a 2011-2012 U.S-Canada Fulbright Scholarship. She will be working with Dr. Randy Malamud, Chair of Modern Literature, Ecocriticism, and Cultural Studies at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Tammy will be conducting research for a project entitled: "An Ecocritical Menagerie: Atlantic Canadian Poetics."
Congratulations to Lisa Alward, Alexandra Dence, and Professor Emeritus Roger Ploude, who were all nominated for the Arts Faculty Teaching Award.
Congratulations to Professor Len Falkenstein on two successful Bard in the Barracks productions this spring: the revival of Macbeth for Congress, and the regular season Bard in the Barracks production of King Lear, which included a fine performance by Professor John Ball in the titular role.
Professor Rob Gray was named a "Writer to Watch" by Douglas Glover for Canada Writes.
2010
Professor Diana Austin is the recipient of the Association of Atlantic Universities' 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award. This is the first time this award has been bestowed upon a UNB(F) faculty member.
Congratulations to Professor Triny Finlay on the publication of her collection of poetry, Histories Haunt Us (Harbour, 2010).
Congratulations to Professor Rob Gray on the publication of his collection of short stories, Crisp (NeWest Press, 2010).
Retired Professor Anne Klinck was named Professor Emerita in English at UNB's 181st Encaenia in May.
Congratulations to Charmaine Cadeau (Creative Writing MA, 2003) on her tenure-track position at High Point University in North Carolina, where she will be teaching a blend of literature and creative writing courses.
Congratulations to Matt Robinson (PhD, 2008) on receiving the Excellence in Part-Time Teaching Award at St. Thomas University's Spring Convocation.
James Langer (Creative Writing MA, 2006) won the Gerald Lampert Prize for Best First Poetry Book in Canada for his collection Gun Dogs (House of Anansi, 2009).
Professor Roger Ploude was the recipient of the President's Medal for Distinguished Service in the spring of 2010. He was subsequently named Professor Emeritus at UNB's Fall Convocation.
Congratulations to Brenna Clarke Gray (PhD, 2010) on her new position at Douglas College. Brenna is teaching academic writing, Canadian literature, Children's Literature, and Drama.
Previous Years
Demetres Tryphonopoulos's edition of H.D.'s Majic Ring was published by the University Press of Florida, 2009.
David Creelman (UNBSJ), Ross Leckie, and Wendy Robbins won UNB Merit Awards in 2009.
Congratulations to the recipients of SSHRC Research Grants in 2009, Wendy Robbins and Edie Snook.
Matthew Heiti (Creative Writing MA,2010) won the Short Grain Fiction Prize for "Snakeskin Boots."
Jennifer Houle (Creative Writing MA, 2009), won the Great Blue Heron Poetry Contest sponsored by The Antigonish Review.
Danny Jacobs (Creative Writing MA, 2008) won the 21st Annual Short Grain Poetry Prize for "How to Shoot Skeet with My Grandfather's Lost Double Barrell."
Shane Rhodes (Creative Writing MA, 1998) received the P.K. Page Founder's Award for Poetry, which recognizes the best poem published in 2009, for "For Donnie Peters (1964-1999)."
Matt Robinson (Creative Writing MA, 2000) received the Malahat Long Poem Prize for "against the hard angle" (2009).
Kristel Thornell (Creative Writing MA, 2002), was co-winner of 2009 The Australian/Vogel Prize for the novel Night Street. $20,000 Australian Dollars and publication by Allen & Unwin.
Professor Ross Leckie won a Canada-US Fulbright Fellowship (winter term) which he held at the University of Arizona (2008).
Professor Wendy Robbins won the Governor-General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case (2007).
Professor Gwen Davies was awarded an honorary doctorate (DCL) from the University of King's College, Halifax (2006).
Professor Gwen Davies (then Dean of Graduate Studies, now Professor and Dean Emerita) was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2004).
PhD student Tammy Armstrong was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry for her collection Bogman's Music (Anvil, 2001). Tammy was the youngest poet ever short-listed for the Governor General's Award (2002). Tammy joined the PhD program in 2008.
