Upper School English teacher Mil Norman-Risch recently received awards in poetry and creative non-fiction.
Mil Norman-Risch processes in at the 2008 Upper School graduation ceremony.
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US English Teacher Norman-Risch Receives Writing Awards
Reflecting the strength of the Upper School English Department, English teacher Mil Norman-Risch has received two first place awards and an honorable mention in prestigious writing contests, and her work will be published in various journals in 2008. Norman-Risch teaches poetry and memoir in addition to other courses.
Here are the details of the writing contests and awards, as well as links to learn more:
Mil Norman-Risch won the 2007 American Poetry Journal's Poet's
Prize ($500 award) judged by poet J.P. Dancing Bear.The poem will appear this month (July 2008).
Additionally, Norman-Risch won First Prize in NMW's 2008 creative
nonfiction contest.It is believed that the issue comes out
in September. AWP (The Association of
Writers and Writing Programs) has announced the award on its website: See
http://www.awpwriter.org/magazine/awpnews01.htm The category was New Millennium Writing
Awards, earning $1,000 and Publication. Poetry Winner: Harry
Bauld for “Alaska.”
Nonfiction Winners: Ralph Ryan for “Wildfire, Hellfire” and M. Norman Risch for
“The Day My Son Died.” Short-Short Fiction Winner: Susan Chiavelli for “Winter
Oranges.”
Lastly, in 2008 six
other literary journals are publishing Norman-Risch's poetry: White Pelican Review,
Valparaiso Review (forthcoming in Sept), Avatar Review(http://avatarreview.net/), Freshwater, Common
Ground Review, and Northern Agrarian Monthly.In past years, her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Sojourners, and
in Agha Shahid Ali's anthology Ravishing DisUnities (Wesleyan 2001).
The Collegiate community congratulates Norman-Risch on these achievements.
