Catapult Student Highlights! October edition

This month, we’ve got some big brags about the students from Catapult’s writing program. Between the forthcoming books, recently published pieces, news of acceptances to prestigious residencies and MFA programs—we can hardly keep up, and that’s just how we like it. Check out the list below to see what our writers are up to.

Are you a Catapult alum with writing news? Contact Colin Drohan ([email protected]) to let us know, and we’ll brag about you in the next roundup!

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Natalka Burian’s debut young adult novel Welcome to the Slipstream is forthcoming from Merit Press.

Marcia Butler’s memoir, The Skin Above My Knee, will be published by Little, Brown in February. Marcia was also awarded a Writer in Residence through Aspen Words, where she worked on her new novel, tentatively titled South Sidewalk.

Glendaliz Camacho is the Fall Writer in Residence at Kerouac House.

Nicole Cammorata just began the MFA program at The New School.

Linda Chavers was a runner-up for the 2016 Graving Grain Press Chapbook Contest, judged by Lily Hoang, and her chapbook, (This Fucking Body is) Never Yours will be published by that press.

Yvonne Conza’s short story “In My Dream” was published in F(r)iction #5. Here you can listen to Yvonne discuss the process of publishing the story, and here you can hear a little bit from artist Eren Angiolini about creating original artwork for the piece.

r. erica doyle is a mentor for The Poetry Project’s 2016-2017 Fellowship Program.

Yen Ha’s “Speaking in English” was published at Minola Review.

Ayden LeRoux is the coauthor of Odyssey Works: Transformative Experiences for an Audience of One, which will be published by Princeton Architectural Press in November.

Elizabeth Laura Nelson’s “New York State of Mind” was published at Purple Clover.

Holly Pekowsky recently attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, where she continued her study with her Catapult instructor Laura van den Berg.