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William Orem, M.F.A., Ph.D. Writer-in-Residence, Emerson College See williamorem.com [email protected] Ph.D. M.F.A. B.A. English, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1999 Creative Writing, Indiana University, Bloomington, 1994 Psychology and Neuroscience, Hampshire College, 1988 Dissertation: A New Poetics of Silence: Joyce, Beckett, Cage NOVELS: My latest novel, The Word-Bearer, is currently in my agent’s hands. He will begin pitching it to publishing houses next month. My novel Killer of Crying Deer appeared in September, 2010, from Kitsune Press. In 2012 it won the Eric Hoffer Award. My novel-in-stories Across the River won the Clay Reynolds Prize from Texas University Press and appeared in 2009. My first novel-in-stories Zombi, You My Love won the La Questa Press national first book competition and appeared in 1999. It also won the GLCA New Writers' Award, formerly given to Louise Erdrich, Richard Ford, Sherman Alexie, and Alice Munro. CRITICAL ARTICLES: “Corpse Chewers: The Vampire in Ulysses.” James Joyce Quarterly, 2013 “John Cage.” Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The 20th Century, 2001 SHORT FICTION: Sou'wester, Alaska Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, The Potomac Review, Plot, Dream International Quarterly, The Wolf Head Quarterly, The Paradoxist, Blue Lady, Robin's Nest, Sulphur River Literary Review, Parnassus Literary Journal, After Hours, 360 Degrees: Art and Literary Journal, The Tome, Midnight Zoo, Rural Medicine, Sinister, Los Pescadores, Flying Island: The Writers’ Center of Indiana, Me Three Literary Journal, Westview: A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Cabal Asylum, Night Train, Fortney Publishing's Holiday Stories, The Sycamore Review, Barkeater: The Adirondack Review, Margin, Hospital Drive, Improper Bostonian, Boston Fiction Annual Review, Emerson Review, Survivor's Review, Inflight Magazine, Shaking Like a Mountain, Devilfish Review, Oregon Literary Review FICTION AWARDS: Eric Hoffer Award for Excellence in Small Press, 2012 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize, 2009 Short-Listed for the Tom Howard short story contest, 2009 Reading by Invitation at the Boston Fiction Festival, 2007 Improper Bostonian Fiction Award, 2006 Semifinalist, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Fiction, 2006 Improper Bostonian Fiction Award, 2004 2nd place, Powells Books Literary Essay Contest, 2004 Honorable Mention, New Century Writers' Award for the Short Story, 2003 3rd Place, New Century Writers' Award for the Novel, 2003 2nd place, Hemispheres Magazine Faux Faulkner Contest, 2003 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers' Award in Fiction, 2000 La Questa Press National First Book Competition, 1999 Pushcart Prize Nomination by Alaska Quarterly Review, 1999 Honorable Mention in Datlow and Windling's The Year's Best (fiction), 1995 Honorable Mention in The Missouri Review Short Story Awards, 1990 POETRY: Windhover, The Princeton Arts Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, The Piedmont Literary Review, The Comstock Review, Midwest Poetry Review, The Yalobusha Review, Onionhead Literary Quarterly, The Wolf Head Quarterly, Rafters, The New Press Literary Quarterly, Liberty Hill, The Penware National Poetry Award, Confluence, Pike Creek Review, Minimus, Raconteur, Poetic Space, Wire, Rain Dog Review, 360 Degrees, Pleiades, Baybury Review, The Slate, Neologisms, Poetpourri, Sparrowgrass, Parting Gifts, Fledgling, The Stable Companion, Poetry Bone, Verse Unto Us, The Talking River Review, Poetry Motel, KYEzine, The Cracked Kettle Review, black bough, Point Judith Light, Haiku Headlines, Brussels Sprout, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Smartish pace, Golden Apple Press' Skipping Stones, Runes, Purple Mountain, Exquisite Corpse, The Curbside Review, Knoxville Writers Guild, Grub Street Free Press, The No Tell Motel, The Southern Anthology, Potpourri, The Rockhurst Review, Erotic Readers and Writers Association, Oyez Review, Dogwood, Caesura, The Bellevue Literary Review, Color Wheel, Wisteria, J Journal, Rock & Sling, Hotmetal Press, New Verse News, Prune Juice, Survivor Chronicles, Alehouse, Garden Verse, Nimrod, The Snowbound Chapbook Series, The New Formalist POETRY AWARDS: Finalist, Pablo Neruda Prize, 2013 Invitation to read at Windhover Writers’ Festival, 2013 (declined) Invitation to Read at Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton, MA 2012 Semi-Finalist, Crab Orchard Review Poetry series, 2011 Semi-Finalist, Dorset Prize, 2009 Merit Award, Atlanta Review International Poetry Competition, 2009 Finalist, Tampa Review Prize, 2008 Reading by Invitation: Cape Cod Cultural Center, 2008 Semi-Finalist, Pablo Neruda Prize, 2008 Highly Commended: Open Poetry International Sonnet Competition, 2008 Residence with Artist’s Grant in Poetry, Vermont Studio Center, 2006 (declined) Finalist, the Pablo Neruda Prize, 2006 Semifinalist, Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, 2006 Inclusion in The Treasure Chest (best of ERWA poetry online), 2006 First Honorable Mention -- Oregon State Poetry Association Awards, 2005 The Grub Street Free Press Poetry Award, 2004 First Alternate, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship in Poetry, 1998 Pushcart Prize Nomination by Sulphur River Literary Review in Poetry, 1997 Midwest Review Editor's Prize: nominated in Poetry, 1997 Honorable mention in the Writer's Digest Magazine Writing Competition for poetry, placing within the top 100 out of 12,000 submissions nationwide, 1996 The Penware National Poetry Awards, 1995 Featured Poet: Sulphur River Literary Review, 1994 My poetry has been featured on the NPR-based radio broadcasts The Linen of Words and The Poet’s Weave. DRAMA: My full-length play The Seabirds was produced by Acadiana Repertory Theater, Louisiana, 2014. My ten-minute play Bloodline was produced at Sexfest II, Boston, 2014. The Seabirds was produced by Argos Theatre, Boston, 2013. My 10-miniute play The Accidents of Bread was a semi-finalist for the Canton One Acts Festival, 2013 My 10-minute play The Accidents of Bread was performed by Shakespeare in the Park, 2012. My 10-minute play And Clouds Made of Bones was performed by Firehouse Theatre, 2010. My 10-min play Trofimov: A Student was performed in North Park Playwright Festival, San Diego, CA, 2010 (chosen over 195 playwrights). My 10-minute play Trofimov, A Student was performed by Image Theatre, 2009. My 10-minute play Ontological was performed at the Turtle Lane Theatre, 2009. The Seabirds was given a staged reading in Manhattan at Urban Stages, 2009. My 10-minute play Cabman was performed by Gurnet Theatre Project, 2008. The Seabirds won the Maxim Mazumdar New Play Competition at Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, NY. It received its world premiere in September 07. My 10-minute play Suspension was produced in January 08 by Actors Theatre of Louisville. Suspension was one of 14 chosen from a pool of over 1,200 for production at City Theatre's Summer Shorts Festival in Miami, FL. It received its world premiere in July 07 at the Carnival Center Studio Theatre in Miami. Semi-finalist, Canton One Acts Festival, 2013 Semi-finalist, The Source Festival, Source Theatre, Washington, DC, 2008 Finalist, The Boston Theatre Marathon, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2007 Finalist, The Curan Repertory Company One-Act Festival, New York, NY, 2006 Finalist, The Boston Theatre Marathon, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2005 DRAMA AWARDS: The Accidents of Bread was nominated for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2012 And Clouds Made of Bones was a finalist for the Fusion Theatre Short Works Festival, 2010 Ontological was nominated for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2009 Suspension was nominated for the Heideman Award at Actors Theatre of Louisville, 2008 Winner, the Wonderland One-Act Festival, New York, NY, 2007 (declined) Katharine Cornell Award for Outstanding Contribution by a Visiting Artist, 2007 DRAMA IN ANTHOLOGIES: Boston Theatre Marathon XII: Smith & Kraus, 2012 Poems & Plays, 2012 Boston Theatre Marathon XI: Smith & Kraus, 2010 Conclave: A Journal of Character, 2010 Best Ten-Minute Plays 2009: Three or More Actors. Smith & Kraus, 2009 ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS: ” The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing Return”: AWP Panel Discussion, 2014 “The Seven Deadly Sins of Writing”: AWP Panel Discussion, 2013 “The Vampire in Ulysses”: presentation at the annual convention of the New England Conference for Irish Studies, 2011 Chosen to adjudicate the Tennessee Arts Commission Prize in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry, 2008 CREATIVE NON-FICTION / JOURNALISM: The Pope and Sex (Ryder Magazine), 2013; Farewell Rocket Summer: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury (Psychology Today); “Darkness of Mind: How Dostoyevsky Helps Us Understand Timothy McVeigh” (Ryder Magazine); “When I Met The Exorcist” (Los Pescadores Magazine); “In Memoriam” (Non Satis Scire); “Mary’s Shelley’s Fatal Attraction” (Mystery Scene Magazine); “Genocide Machines: IBM and the Holocaust” (STNews). “Illumination” (This I Believe); "Hut of the Wanderer" (TransitionsAbroad.com.) Visual and performing arts reviews available on request. CREATIVE NON-FICTION AWARDS: My travel essay "Basho's Hut" won runner-up status in the 2008 Transitions Abroad travel writing contest. ESSAYS ON FILM: “The Monsters of Race: from Nosferatu to Blade” (Ryder Magazine); “The Aesthetic Defense: the Death of Leni Riefenstahl” (Dayton City Paper); “Terror Anonymous: John Carpenter’s Halloween and the Malling of America” (Dayton City Paper); “Peaceful Warrior and American Buddhism” (STNews.com); “Why We Don’t Need Superman” (Free Inquiry) SCIENCE WRITING: The Foundational Questions Institute; Science and Theology News, Research and Creative Activity, A Moment of Science, The College Magazine, Dayton City Paper, Science and Spirit Magazine, Indiana University Alumni Magazine, Society for Neuroscience, Vol. 15 (coauthor), Society for Neuroscience Vol. 16 (coauthor), First Annual Meeting of the Society for Biological Rhythms, Vol. 1 (coauthor), Science and Religion Articles of Distinction; Skeptical Inquirer BLOG: http://www.fqxi.org/community/blogs.php REPRINTS: Frontier Science, Christian Science Monitor; Institute of Philosophy, University of Zielonogorski; Altruists International; Scriptorium; Freerepublic; Tendencias21.net ANTHOLOGIES: The Road Kate Built (Kitsune Press), 2012 And Know This Place (Indiana Historical Society Press), 2011 The Country Doctor Revisited: A Twenty-First Century Reader (Kent State University Press), 2009 Hand Luggage Only (Open Poetry Ltd.), 2008 Rural Medicine (Hiram College Press), 2008 The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel (No Tell Books), 2006 Writings on the Body (University of Tennessee Press), 2006 GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS: Thomas Williams Fellowship, The Christopher Isherwood Foundation, 2003 Fiction Fellowship at the Herzen University Summer Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2005 (declined) Wilson Fellowship, given by Indiana University to one entering student each year in recognition of her or his merit as a creative writer. SOCIETIES: Modern Language Association AWP The Academy of American Poets The Planetary Society REFERENCES: Cornelia Nixon, Professor, Letters Division Chair, Mills College, 5000 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland, CA 94613. [email protected] Stephen Watt, Chair, Indiana University English Department, Ballantine Hall, Bloomington, IN 47408. [email protected] Full dossier available on request from Indiana University.
