Words & Images was established 25 years ago as a student-published journal of literary and visual arts. The journal is based on open-call submissions for poetry, prose and art, and includes interviews with nationally recognized writers and artists who have contributed to their respective fields.
2005 Words & Images Award Winners:
Linda Dove—winner of the Stephen Dunn Poetry award for In Memory of Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996) Dove lives in Skull Valley, Ariz., after teaching college for 15 years. In 2000, she published a collection of Scholarship essays, Women, Writing, and the Reproduction of Culture in Tudor and Stuart Britain (Syracuse UP). Her poems have appeared in numerous publications and have won numerous awards. She was a semi-finalist in the 2004 Discovery / The National Poetry Award.
Manini Nayar—winner of the Andre Dubus Short Fiction Award for The Gentle Cycle. Nayar's stories have been published in The Malahat Review, Parnassus : Poetry in Review, Stand Magazine, Boston Review, and London Magazine. She won Boston Review's Short Story Contest in 2001 and Stand Magazine's Fifth Biennial Story Contest, and was a prizewinner in the BBC's International Fiction Contest 2000.
GET A COPY: Words & Images is available at USM Bookstores and Portland-area bookstores. Copies will be available in bookstores throughout New England by the end of May. The cost is $19.95.
The Southern Maine Review is published annually by USM to provide a public forum for exemplary work by faculty, students, and staff at this institution and throughout the University of Maine System; other academies; and citizens at large. The journal seeks provocative work from all disciplines and artistic genres, particularly work bridging disciplines and linking academic inquiry to matters of common social, political, or ethical concern.
For more information, contact Managing Editor Wanda Whitten at (207) 780-4749 or wwhitten@maine.edu.
2005 Southern Maine Review Award Winners:
Scot Goodwin '04—winner of the Richard Carbonneau Poetry Prize for The Parable. Goodwin earned a B.A. in history from USM and helped develop USM's Poster Day into the full-fledged conference Thinking Matters.
Kenneth Nye—winner of the Provost's Poetry Prize for Stars in Her Pocket, was born in Nebraska and raised in New York but has lived most of his adult life in Maine. He has served as the principal at Rumford High School and Yarmouth High School and was Maine's Principal of the Year in 1993. He has taught in the Educational Leadership Program at USM's College of Education and Human Development for 11 years.
Penny Sargent—winner of the L. Edward Willard, Jr. Award for A Dog's Life: Mediator, Mirror, and Metaphor, is a senior arts and humanities major at USM's Lewiston-Auburn College and is the program coordinator for Outright/Lewiston-Auburn.
Sean Thomas—winner of the President's Prose Award for The Six Arms of the Homeless, is a senior majoring in creative writing at the University of Maine at Farmington. Upon graduation, he plans to move to Bangkok, Thailand, to teach English and write.
GET A COPY: Annual subscription rates are $16.00/institutional; $13.00/individual; $8.50/University of Maine System students and alumni. Payable in advance to The Southern Maine Review, University of Southern Maine, 102 Bedford St., Portland, ME 04104. Subscriptions are renewed annually unless notice is received prior to February 15th. A subscription form is available at: http://www.usm.maine.edu/mscholar. Rates are subject to change.
