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  • Northwest of normal

    Creator:
    Larison, John J.
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    Northwest of Normal is the first part of a novel that takes place along an imaginary Oregon river called the Ipsyniho. The story grows from valley’s fertile loam like a blackberry vine, entangling a group of locals—fly fishing guides and midwives, artists and dope growers—just as a posse of wealthy...
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    clearly could have said, “Your writing sucks.” Marjorie Sandor (writer, reader, teacher, angler, and

  • Connections

    Creator:
    Millet, Terrance Lane
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    This thesis, a collection of short fiction, attempts to surface some of the discrepancy between inner and outer lives, between who these characters want to be and who they've become, between the lives they might have had and those they've chosen because the former are too chancy and the latter...
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    a friend. Thanks as well to my committee members: Dr. Marjorie Sandor, who first welcomed me into

  • The fading

    Creator:
    Ni Bhraonain, Lisa
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    As I began to explore the evocative nature of language, the creation of themes and images, and the rhythm and beauty of words that I feel must accompany meaning, I discovered that I had always seen and heard and felt the world as many of my characters do; in this...
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    advisors: Marjorie Sandor, Tracy Daugherty, and Chris Anderson With special thanks to Mildred Hawkins And

  • Body of water

    Creator:
    Zellers, Michelle
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    Body of Water is a collection of short fiction about women navigating shifting relationships to their bodies; their bodies of memory and knowledge; their family histories; and their natural and cultural environments. Most of the stories depict girls and women beginning to perceive and push against the bounds of gendered...
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    story has inspired greater personal confidence in my vision for this collection. Thanks to Marjorie

  • Everybody doing pretty here

    Creator:
    Elbom, Emily Rebecca
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    In Everybody Doing Pretty Here, a collection of eight interconnected short stories, Emily R. Elbom chronicles the lives of a married couple, Max and Willa. Both characters survive various forms of physical, emotional, and social abuse, and seem to stay married because of this connection. In spite of their codependency,...
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    guidance; Marjorie Sandor, for her indispensable wisdom and help; Kerry Ahearn, for his enthusiasm and

  • Night dreamer walks

    Creator:
    Groves, John M. (John Martin)
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    In Night Dreamer Walks, the first eight chapters of a novel of the same name, John M. Groves imagines the predicament of a young Native American man living 8,000 years ago in Oregon's Klamath Basin. Beginning as a story to avenge his father's death during an unusual outbreak of tribal...
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    thank my writing teachers: Cleland Selby, George Voland, Sheila Mable, Wayne Harrison, Marjorie Sandor

  • Riding lessons

    Creator:
    Brisker, Kathy Jo
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    In this collection of nonfiction essays, Brisker recounts her path of recovery after suffering traumatic brain injury. The memoir opens with her first waking moments in the hospital one week after she was thrown from her horse and fractured her skull, and her beginning attempts at piecing together her fragmented...
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    the threads to weave the story together and to tell it like it is. Thanks to Marjorie Sandor for

  • Can you see me?

    Creator:
    Wyckoff, Elizabeth
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    In Can You See Me?, a collection of nine short stories, Elizabeth Wyckoff explores the conflicting desires of young women who long for connection, but struggle to find the balance between concealing and revealing themselves. The female protagonists in these stories simultaneously yearn to be seen, recognized, and acknowledged; and...
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    , Marjorie Sandor, Keith Scribner, and Susan Meyers, who have responded to my work with honesty and

  • Music for strings

    Creator:
    deTal, Vicki
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    In this collection of linked stories, four characters navigate space between selves they’ve been and those to come. Alice must invent an autonomous identity after her husband dies in a bike crash. As she casts about to populate a new life, a geographer, a violinist, and a clarinetist emerge at...
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    . ______________________________________________________________________________ Vicki deTal, Author ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Tracy Daugherty, Marjorie Sandor, Keith

  • Modern apostles

    Creator:
    Casas, Ruben
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    Modern Apostles actively attempts to blur the line between academic scholarship and narrative fiction for the purpose of satirizing the social and the political assumptions of its contemporary moment. By appropriating the loudest voices in dominant American culture, the inter-textual narratives (1) call attention to the voices that go unheard,...
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    attempts, treating each one with the seriousness they (I felt) often did not deserve, Marjorie Sandor