Alexandria Riker just published her first short story "Coming Home" in the online magazine The Literary Garden, Issue 4 and can be read online. A December 2018 magna cum laude graduate, Alexandria was an English: Creative Major who worked with Professor Warren Rochelle and was part of the study abroad program that he led in the summer of 2018 at Bangor University in Wales, UK. … [Read more...]
2020 Graduate Krista Beucler Publishes First Short Story
July 2, 2020 by
Krista Beucler '20 recently published her first short story, a piece that originated in her first creative writing class at the University of Mary Washington with Professor Warren Rochelle. Krista completed her degree this spring with a major in English: Creative Writing and minors in Spanish and Museum Studies. While at UMW, Krista was the recipient of the Laurie Mansell Reich '79 and Henry E. Reich Jr. Scholarship and was a finalist for the Barbara Thomas Phillips Creative Writing Scholarship. Krista was the Editor-in-Chief for Issue 7.2 of the Rappahannock Review, the literary journal published by the University of Mary Washington. Working with Professor Rochelle as her advisor, Beucler's graduated in Spring 2020 with departmental Honors by completing the Honors project "Introduction to the Publishing Industry." Krista's story "Rooks Mate for Life" is available online in From Whispers to Roars: An Arts & Literary Magazine, Vol. 3, Issue 1. … [Read more...]
Rochelle Publishes Short Story
January 27, 2020 by
Professor of English Warren Rochelle recently published his short story “Mirrors” in Once Upon a Green Rose, edited by Michon Neal and released from Cuil Press. … [Read more...]
Rochelle Story Accepted for Publication
December 14, 2018 by
Professor Warren Rochelle's story “Mirrors,” a gay-themed retelling of “Beauty and the Beast,” was accepted by Cuilpress and will be published in their forthcoming queering romance anthology So You Think You Know Love? … [Read more...]
Rafferty Presents Talk
October 22, 2018 by
Professor Colin Rafferty recently presented a talk on the 1988 Firefighters Memorial as part of the Blue River Road Investigators project, part of the Open Spaces Art Festival in Kansas City, Missouri. … [Read more...]
Rafferty Continues POTUS Pubs
April 24, 2018 by
Congratulations to Professor Colin Rafferty! His essay on Chester A. Arthur, “Smear Campaign (#21),” appeared last week in the new issue of storySouth. … [Read more...]
Academy of American Poets Prize 2018
March 28, 2018 by
Congratulations to this year's winner, Kaitlin Lamb, for her poem “Dear Persephone,” and to Sarah Stephen, who was awarded an honorable mention for her poem “A Broken Wishbone Sits in My Palm." The contest was judged by guest poet James Arthur of Johns Hopkins University. … [Read more...]
Rafferty Appears as Visiting Writer
March 2, 2018 by
Professor Colin Rafferty recently gave a reading of his work at Brigham Young University as part of their English Reading Series. … [Read more...]
Rafferty Publishes Essay
February 22, 2018 by
Professor Colin Rafferty had his essay on William Howard Taft, "Judgment (#27)," published in the newest issue of The Collapsar. This is the latest in his series of essays devoted to the US Presidents. … [Read more...]
Rafferty Has His Eye on Monroe
February 5, 2018 by
Congratulations to Colin Rafferty! His graphic essay on James Monroe, “The Eye of James Monroe (#5),” was published in the newest issue of Pinball magazine, available here: http://www.thisispinball.com/colin-rafferty/2017/11/29/the-eye-of-james-monroe-5 … [Read more...]