F260. The Bellingham Review

Room LL5, Western New England MFA Annex, Lower Level
Friday, February 28, 2014
3:00 pm to 4:15 pm

 

Past winners of the Bellingham Review's three literary contests, the Annie Dillard Award in Creative Nonfiction, the 49th Parallel Poetry Award, and the Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction, will read samples of their work. The Bellingham Review is an award-winning literary journal that has been published by Western Washington University for the past thirty-seven years.


Participants

Moderator:

Brenda Miller is the author of three essay collections, and co-author of Tell It Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and The Pen and The Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. Her work has received six Pushcart Prizes. She teaches English at Western Washington University.

Jacob M. Appel is the author of the novels The Man Who Wouldn't Stand Up and The Biology of Luck. His stories have been published in more than two hundred literary journals including Virginia Quarterly Review, Missouri Review, and Subtropics; a collection is forthcoming.

Lauri Anderson Alford’s fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from Bellingham Review, Greensboro Review, the Carolina Quarterly, and the Common. She is a recent recipient of the Tobias Wolff Award in Fiction, the Robert Watson Literary Prize, and a Tennessee Williams scholarship.

Jennifer Militello is the author of three collections of poetry: Body Thesaurus, Flinch of Song, winner of the Tupelo Press First Book Award, and the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open Sail. She is the director of the creative writing program at River Valley Community College.

Angela Tun's work has appeared in the Bellingham Review, Cha, CNN Living, the Frisky, the Week, and Mental Floss. She also blogs about words and language for Wordnik. She is at work on a novel. http://blog.angelatung.com/.

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