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I’m delighted to share that Cheryl Whitehead has a poem called “Backwater Blues” included in the current issue of Callaloo from John Hopkins University Press. Congratulations Cheryl!

And… if any of you have publication news, literary inspiration, or any other updates you’d like to share on this blog while we’re back at our “real” lives, please email me: hello (at) sewaneeletters.com.

Congrats to Nick and Patrick and all the 4th of July parade floaters. We won 3rd place!

Photo/University of the South

This article on Sam Pickering’s return to Sewanee appeared today in the Chattanooga Times Free Press and features a priceless quote from Jason Kelley and a photo of the back of my head. Both represent the program well, I think!

Congratulation to Lindsey Harding, whose short story Beyond the Field of Vision appears in the summer issue of the Wilderness House Literary Review summer issue. So inspiring to see her hard work getting recognized… Let’s toast her at Shenanigans!

Mary Priestly’s weekly hikes are one of the highlights of the summer term. Pictured here is the group she led to find the local oddity known as “the H tree.”

Congrats to Lindsey Harding! Her story “A 21st Century Kind of Destiny” was published in Xenith, an online literary magazine. A TV figures in the plot… Coincidence?

Two June items that may be of interest to SOL folks:

Porch/Party Jam @ Pete’s 1431 Roark’s Cove Road, Sewanee, TN - Saturday June 19, 2010 is the next porch party / jam, the fourth of the oh-ten season. This time it will be some kind of kielbasa or other link sausage product & some potatoes. Start time is 5ish & if you need something other than sausage or potatoes, bring it. As always, if you are musical, bring it on. A bonfire is planned.

I also have a botanist friend who is planning a hike into the Walls of Jericho area on Sunday 6/27/10 - probably start about 9:30ish

–Peter Trenchi

Check out this interesting piece by Garrison Keillor about the new world of publishing versus the old.  Curmudgeonly and nostalgic, as Keillor tends to be when writing about anything other than politics; a little depressing, as nostalgic curmudgeons usually are; also pretty interesting.  

Congrats to Christine Doza, who rocked the selection committee of the Dana Awards. I think the title of her story is funny in this context:

I wanted to let you know that Negative Capability was among the top 10 finalists for the Dana Award in Short Fiction, just a few steps from the winner (yes, I know they’re giant steps in terms of fame and money, but not in terms of the excellence of the work). Congratulations on your strong showing. Obviously your work speaks to us.