

Graduate Fred Shaw’s poem “Saturday Poem: Delivery at The Sisters of Mercy” appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on Saturday, February 27, 2010.
Kathryn Graves-Messer will be a featured reader at the Calyx Press 34th anniversary celebration being held on Saturday, March 13, 2010 at the Covallis Arts Center, 700 SW Madison, Corvallis, OR 97339.
Bridgette Nofsinger’s poem “Two-Hour Delay” was published in the Saturday, February 20, 2010 edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Elizabeth Carter, MFA '08, is under contract to write two fully-funded feature screenplays: one is a novel adaptation and the other is regarding a historical figure. Both will be filmed in the Northeast. Liz is also creating an LLC to start her own production company.
Victoria Dym's poem "Where Clowns Shop" is forthcoming in Pearl Magazine, Issue #3. She is also "Poet in Person" at Mt. Lebanon Middle School for Poetry Month on April 16, and is conducting two classes for grades 5-8. In addition, she is teaching with the Young Writers' Institute at the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.
MFA grad April Johnston has had two stories, "Third Street" and "How the Parking Authority Ruined My Saturday Night," accepted for publication in Fast Forward: A Collection of Flash Fiction, Volume Three, to be released in summer 2010.
Kevin Finn's poem “The Funeral” will be published in Main Street Rag. For more information, please visit: http://www.mainstreetrag.com.
Kathryn Graves-Messer won Honorable Mention in the Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Prize Contest for her poem, "Findings." The contest was held by CALYX Journal, a forum for women’s creative work. For more information or to read the poem, click here: http://calyxpress.org/Cranstonprize.html.
Fred Shaw's poem "Demetrius's Glasses" will appear in the Spring '10 Issue of 5AM.
Victoria Dym will have a poem published in Pearl Magazine, Issue #43, 2010
On November 14, 2009 will be Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic Workshop's Voices From the Attic Anthology XV Book Release Party at the WYEP Community Broadcast Center, 67 Bedford Square, on the South Side of Pittsburgh. Doors open at 7:30pm, and reading starts at 8pm.
Emme Devonish will be a part of a Poetry Reading on October 18 along with Yvonne Estrada, Brenda Petrakos, Kim Dower, Eric Howard, Sharon Venezio and others at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock in Los Angeles, CA.
Carlow MFA Alum Deena November's poems "Pittsburgh Every Winter," "Dead Society Finch," "Could've Been Me," and "Imagine the Moon" appear in Keyhole Magazine (Issue 8, Summer 2009) and "Working for the Solomon Brothers," "All Over the Holy City," and "Wasn't Good Enough for my Dog" appeared in the Fall Issue of Chiron Review.
Renata McCormish's poem "C-Section in Two Acts" will appear in the next issue of Poets and Artists (Oranges & Sardines).
Chris Bondi's play "Working Together" was selected and produced by the 2009 Pittsburgh New Works Festival.
Fred Shaw was published in Shaking Like a Mountain of September 16, 2009. To read his piece, click here.
Kevin Finn's new chapbook Exit Wounds was just published by Amsterdam Press, August 2009.
Victoria Dym's poem "Morphous" appeared in the Pittsburgh City Paper on August 20, 2009. To read the poem, please visit: http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A67530
Fred Shaw has published a new poem, entitled "Turntable Generation" in Shaking Like a Mountain's Fall 2009 issue, which can be found by visiting: www.shakinglikeamountain.com/turntable.
Juliene McKnight has poems forthcoming in POEM, The Lyric and Philadelphia Stories.
Renata McCormish's poem "How to Feed Pigeons" will appear in the Summer 2009 issue of the Naugatuck River Review.
Michelle Stoner will be doing a reading at "Hothouse," The Sprout Fund of Pittsburgh's annual benefit party, on Saturday, August 29, 2009, 9pm at Bakery Square. For more information, please visit: http://www.sproutfund.org/hothouse/home.
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