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By Michael Pittard, Poetry Editor One of the most exciting poems I came across while reading for Issue 105 was a gorgeous and thundering piece by Maya Salameh. “my other mouth //” is a poem unafraid to deal with the complex realities of being of Arabic lineage, confronting its reader with both beautiful language, syntax, […]
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All of us at The Greensboro Review are very excited to be a part of the University of North Carolina Press family! The Press will now manage all current and new GR subscriptions and renewals, journal distribution, and bookstore orders. Our faculty and students in the MFA Writing Program will continue to curate, edit, and produce […]
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Sarah Heying has fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in Broken Pencil, The Chariton Review, Ellipsis, Kestrel, and online at Bitch. She is currently working toward her PhD at the University of Mississippi. Heying’s new story, “The Chair Kickers’ Tale,” received the Robert Watson Literary Prize and appears in the Greensboro Review 105. Rose Himber Howse: Your […]
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We’re very pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Robert Watson Literary Prizes, including a cash prize of $1,000 for the best short story and poem published in our spring issue. This year’s awards go to: Sarah Heying, for the story, “The Chair Kickers’ Tale” Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, for the poem, “Miss Sahar Listens […]
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Happy Pub Day to GR contributor Kristen Arnett! In 2016, Arnett’s story, “Roseate’s Book of Penmanship,” was an Honorable Mention for the Greensboro Review Robert Watson Literary Prize. We can’t wait to read her first novel, Mostly Dead Things, out today from Tin House Books and called “irresistible” and “a cabinet of wonders” in this recent New York […]
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Congratulations to Jacob M. Appel, GR contributor and former winner of the Robert Watson Literary Prize for fiction, on the pub day of his latest novel, Surrendering Appomattox (C&R Press, June 2019). “Combining mystery, intrigue, and satire, Appel’s novel is a warning about how far our society has fallen down the rabbit hole of fake news […]
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Richard Moriarty just finished his second year in the MFA program at UNC Greensboro. He’s originally from Kansas City. He went to University of Miami (the Florida one) for undergrad, where he studied advertising. He’s working on a collection of stories tentatively titled River Runners. Books currently on his nightstand: The Complete Stories of Leonora […]
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We’d like to wish a happy pub day to Annie Woodford, whose first poetry collection, Bootleg, comes out today from Groundhog Poetry Press. We were thrilled to publish Woodford’s poem, “All Over the South Today,” in the Fall 2018 issue of the GR.
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Michael Pittard is a second-year MFA student at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His poems and reviews have appeared in such publications as Tupelo Quarterly and Red Flag Poetry. He lives in Greensboro with his cat, Roosevelt. “‘Now the one thing you have to promise, Rudy, is that you never joke about this. Flying saucers are […]
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Congratulations to contributor Khanh Ha on the publication of his latest novel, Mrs. Rossi’s Dream (The Permanent Press, 2019). Ha won the Greensboro Review Robert Watson Literary Prize in fiction for “Heartbreak Grass,” a short story adapted from the book. Mrs. Rossi’s Dream has already won pre-publication awards and been a finalist for the 2016 Mary McCarthy Prize […]
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