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| Bonnie Jo Campbell, fiction faculty at our recent Ludington Writers Conference 2009, has received two wonderful honors for American Salvage her new story collection from Wayne State University Press. First, the story The Inventor, 1972, which appeared in the collection, won the prestigious Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction from the Southern Review. Then the collection was selected as a finalist for the National Book Award. Sensational and well-deserved! . . . . . MSU to get Raphael papers - Lev Raphael, author of the memoirs My Germany and Writing the Jewish Life, the novel The German Money, the Nick Hoffman mystery series, the story collection Dancing on Tisha B'Av and numerous other books, reports to THE BUZZ that Michigan State University Libraries has purchased his present and future literary papers. The papers, said Lev, "cover thirty-one years of publishing and currently consist of 89 boxes of handwritten and typed manuscripts; diaries; travel/book tour journals; letters; tour memorabilia; fan mail; corrected galley proofs; drafts and clippings of the hundreds of reviews I've published; CDs from my radio show interviews with authors like Salman Rushdie and Erica Jong; research materials for my many books; interviews of me in print and on tape, CD and DVD; editorial correspondence; reviews of my books from around the world; articles, conference papers and book chapters written about my work; copies of all published works in all languages including some rarities; unpublished manuscripts; poetry; 'association copies' (books given to me by other authors); awards; original cover art and posters; and 'ephemera' (including gifts from fans). Given the volume of material, it'll take a year to catalog, after which the index to The Lev Raphael Papers will be accessible on-line and researchers will have a unique resource in this collection at Michigan State." Click here for Lev's website Lev Raphael . . . . . ArtServe launches its new website October 10 putting a sharper focus on its mission and providing greater and more accessible resources to serve and engage our arts and cultural constituents, advocates and supporters. Our web address will remain www.artservemichigan.org . . . . . National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. Get all the details at What is NaNoWriMo? . . . . . Fine poet and friend Christine Rhein is really busy with readings this fall, a very special one at the Women & Children First Bookstore in northern Chicago on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 pm. Chris's new collection, Wild Flight, is a finalist for the 2009 Writers' League of Texas National Book Awards (1 of 4 finalists in the poetry category). You can buy a copy of Wild Flight at our online bookstore. Visit Chris's website at www.ChristineRhein.com . . . . .
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