John Blair’s poem “Burning” is the 2020 winner of the Briar Cliff Review Poetry Prize and will be published early next year.  His short story “Flagstaff” is a current finalist for the Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction award (the winner will be announced in January) and will be published in the Post’s annual fiction anthology.

Chris Margrave’s short film, “Thou Shall Not,” which he co-wrote and co-produced, recently won Best Film at the 48 Hour Film Project competition held in Austin, Texas.  The short narrative film—which also earned awards for Best Directing, Best Editing, Best Actress, and Best Costume—will screen at the 2021 Filmapalooza Film Festival in Washington, D.C.

Pinfan Zhu’s article “Well-received Chinese Rhetorical Strategies as Identified in the Public Speeches and Reports of Chinese Leaders” was published in the Journal of Media and Communication Studies. https://academicjournals.org/journal/JMCS/article-abstract/5B8FED865476

Hannah Barton, an English graduate who is now a graduate student at the University of Glasgow, reviewed a book-event sponsored by the British journal U.S. Studies Online featuring Rob Tally on his book, Topophrenia and J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary cartography. Her review can be found here:  https://usso.uk/what-do-maps-mean-to-you/

“On Political Formalism,” Rob Tally’s review of Anna Kornbluh’s The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social Space, appears in the current issue of symploke: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/symploke.28.1-2.0501?seq=1

MARC student Ana B. Freeman’s piece “The Science Teacher’s Daughter” was published in Electric Literature: https://electricliterature.com/the-science-teachers-daughter-by-ana-b-freeman/