Patricia Hooper's new poetry collection, Separate Flights has been awarded the Anita Claire Sharf Award and will be published in 2016 by the University of Tampa Press.  She has poems in the fall issue of The Yale Review and The Hudson Review.
 

Lawrence Hippler's short story Blue Lager wins first prize in the 2015 Central Indiana Writer competition.

Gilda Morina Syverson's memoir "My Father's Daughter: From Rome to Sicily" is a nominee for the Ragan Old North State Award for Nonfiction for 2015