Upcoming Events
May 1, 2010: Reading at Buffalo Street
Books, Ithaca, NY. 4:00 PM.
May 27, 2010: Reading for Word Thursdays,
Bright Hill Literary Center, in the Catskills Mountains,
94 Church St. Treadwell, NY 13846. 7:00 PM.
June 23, 2010: Reading for Pacific University’s
MFA Residency.
June 25, 2010: Roundtable Talk for Pacific
University’s MFA Residency: “Bad Boys & Wild Women
– The Devil is in the Details.”
September 25, 2010: Featured Reader,
Equality State Book Festival, Casper, Wyoming.
October 12, 2010: Reading at Misericordia
University, Scranton, PA.
October 22-24, 2010: Reading/panel –
“Telling Stories, Finding Voice: A Fiction Reading,”
Reimagining Girlhood Conference – SUNY Cortland, NY.
November 12, 2010: Reading at the YMCA’s
Downtown Writer’s Center, Syracuse, NY.
Recent News and Reviews
Shark Girls nominated for the
ALA (American Library Association) Notable Books for
Adults List, 2010.
"Shark
Girls is a Finalist for the ForeWord
Magazine Book of the Year Awards, 2009.
Shark Girls nominated for the
Indie Next List, in Indiebound—inspired recommendations
from Indie Booksellers.
Forthcoming Publication: the story “You
Will Remember This” in Drunken Boat, vol 12.
Published excerpt from Shark
Girls: Knee-Jerk Magazine,
Issue #5, November, 2009.
Interview
on NPR affiliate, WSKG, “Off The Page,” April 13--podcast
Bookslut Review
of Shark Girls: January 2010
ForeWord Reviews (Interview)
Feminist
Review, Jan.
26, 2010
Prosody
Radio Interview, Jan. 2, 2010
(prosody091229.mp3
(MP3 Audio File, 26.9 MB)
Punahou
Bulletin,
spring: Puns in Print (Review)
Portland
Press Herald,
Review, April 18, 2010.
"USABookNews"
Jaimee Wriston Colbert wins the 2008 Jane's
Stories Short Story Award, for her story "The Man
Who Jumped."
Jaimee Wriston Colbert wins the 2009
Editors' Prize in Fiction, at Isotope, A Journal
of Literary Nature and Science Writing, for her
story "We Are All In Pieces."
http://isotope.usu.edu/pages/issues/issue_7.1/colbert.html
http://isotope.usu.edu/index.htm
Jaimee Wriston Colbert was invited to
be part of the Core Faculty at Pacific University's Low-Residency
MFA Program (ranked as one of the top five in the country)
for the Spring Residency, June 2009.
http://www.pacificu.edu/as/mfa/faculty/
March 2009: Interview for the Joe Weil
Morning Poem Show, Facebook.
March 2009: Interview for Binghamton
University TV (BTV).
July 2009: Interview
for Internet Publication ("Knee-Jerk").
