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David Jauss at the Savage River Writers Retreat
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FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Words Overflown by Stars: Creative Writing Instruction and Insight from the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA Program, an anthology of essays on writing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that I edited, will be published in January, 2009, by Writer's Digest Books.
My poem “Lazarus” is forthcoming in Afterwords: Poems That Continue the Stories, edited by Kurt Brown and Howard Schechter (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009).
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Alone With All That Could Happen, a collection of my essays on the craft of fiction, was published in July by Writer's Digest Books. It contains a foreword by Bret Lott. For excerpts from the essays, click on the link under Essay Collections on the right.
My essay "Remembering Lynda Hull” appears in a special feature entitled "Lynda Hull Remembered" in the Spring 2008 issue of Blackbird (www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n1/). Both a text and audio version of this essay, which I read as part of the panel “A Tribute to Lynda Hull” at the Association of Writers and Writing Progams’ annual conference in New York on Jan. 31, 2007, appears along with other essays from the AWP tribute by David Wojahn, Mark Doty, Elizabeth Alexander, and Brenda Shaughnessy. The special feature also includes an essay by Susan Aizenberg, two previously unpublished poems by Lynda Hull, and a video of Lynda reading her poem "The Window."
"The Ultimate Deadline," an essay on the imprisoned writer and artist Damien Echols, appears in the Fall 2007 issue of the online magazine Arkansas Literary Forum, available at www.hsu.edu/alf. Damien was wrongly convicted of killing three young boys in 1993, and has spent 14 years in solitary confinement on Death Row at the Varner Unit, Arkansas' Supermax prison. The issue also contains three of Damien's essays and an interview with Damien conducted by Marck L. Beggs. For more information about Damien and his case, please go to www.wm3.org.
UPCOMING APPEARANCES
August 2008
Aug. 3-15: I will be a visiting writer at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Deer Isle, Maine. While there, I'll give a fiction reading on the evening of August 4 and hold informal workshop/discussions from 4:00-5:30 on weekday afternoons. For more information, please see www.haystack-mtn.org or write to haystack@haystack-mtn.org.
September 2008
Sept. 25: I will be giving a fiction reading and a talk on the craft of fiction at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For more information, please see http://webtools.uiuc.edu/calendar/Calendar?calId=598
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ESSAY COLLECTIONS
Alone With All That Could Happen: Rethinking Conventional Wisdom About the Craft of Fiction Writing
Seven essays on such subjects as writing what you don't know, point of view, the music of syntax, epiphanies, structuring story collections, and the role of contradiction in the creative process. (To read excerpts from these essays, please click on the title above.)
FICTION COLLECTIONS
Black Maps
Winner of the AWP Award for Short Fiction.
" Black Maps is a moving, impressive, deeply rewarding collection from a very talented writer." --Lorrie Moore
(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
Crimes of Passion
"The stories are executed with verve and wit, and one of them--'Shards'--is terrifying enough to have vexed my sleep for two nights running. A fine collection." --Tobias Wolff (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
MISCELLANEOUS ESSAYS AND INTERVIEWS
Miscellaneous Interviews and Essays
Selected interviews and essays on the craft of writing, jazz poetry, minimalism, Lynda Hull, James Wright, Flannery O'Connor, William Carlos Williams, and other writers and subjects. (To read excerpts, please click on heading above.)
POETRY COLLECTIONS
You Are Not Here
Winner of the Fleur-de-Lis Press National Poetry Book Competition.
"Compassion, humor, restless intelligence, and flawless technique come together brilliantly in You Are Not Here to create poems of real tenderness and classical restraint." --Maura Stanton
(To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
Improvising Rivers
"Jauss sees the exercise of style as a form of pilgrimage to the human heart. And he knows the heart in all of its intricacies, misery, and splendor. It is hardly the fashion anymore to label a book as noble--but no other word will suffice." --David Wojahn (To read excerpts, please click on the title above.)
TEXTBOOKS/ANTHOLOGIES
Strong Measures: Contemporary American Poetry in Traditional Forms
A showcase for the finest contemporary examples of nearly 75 traditional forms, ranging from ballads and sonnets to kyrielles and pantoums, by nearly 200 poets, this anthology demonstrates how today's poets have experimented with the old forms to make them "new" and relevant to our times. (To read an excerpt, please click on the title above.)
The Best of Crazyhorse: Thirty Years of Poetry and Fiction
An anthology of the finest poems and short stories published in Crazyhorse, the journal Raymond Carver called "an indispensable literary magazine of the first order." (To read an excerpt, please click on the title above.)
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