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Iowa Writes JOSH ROLNICK |
About Iowa Writes Since 2006, Iowa Writes has featured the work of Iowa-identified writers (whether they have Iowa roots or live here now) and work published by Iowa journals and publishers on The Daily Palette. Iowa Writes features poetry, fiction, or nonfiction twice a week on the Palette. In November of 2008, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designated Iowa City, Iowa, the world's third City of Literature, making the community part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Iowa City has joined Edinburgh, Scotland and Melbourne, Australia as UNESCO Cities of Literature. Find out more about submitting by contacting iowa-writes@uiowa.edu JOSH ROLNICK Josh Rolnick's debut short story collection, Pulp and Paper, won the 2011 John Simmons Short Fiction Award, selected by Yiyun Li. His stories have won the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize and the Florida Review Editor's Choice Prize. They have also been published in Harvard Review, Western Humanities Review, Bellingham Review, Gulf Coast, and Storyville, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New American Voices. Pulp and Paper is the recipient of a Kirkus starred review as a "book of remarkable merit." Kirkus wrote: "Every story is beautifully located in place and period, edging toward grace rather than postmodern irony, and peopled by characters coping with love and loss." The Iowa Press Citizen calls Pulp and Paper an "invitingly disturbing collection" with "a knack for anticipating and twisting ... readers' expectations." And The New York Journal of Books found the book: "powerful and gripping." Rolnick holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and an MA in Writing from Johns Hopkins University. He is publisher of Sh'ma, a journal of Jewish ideas, and Editor of Unstuck, an independent literary annual based in Austin, Texas. He currently divides his time between Akron, Ohio, and Brooklyn, New York, where he lives with his wife and three sons. His website is www.joshrolnick.com. More of Rolnick's work can be found at http://www.themillions.com/2011/08/my-life-in-stories.html and href="http://www.themillions.com/2011/09/ten-things-i%e2%80%99ve-learned-over-12-years-of-sending-out-stories.html">www.themillions.com. |
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