Students and Alumni of the
Georgia Southern University
Creative Writing Concentration

Students graduating with a B.A. in Writing and Linguistics have enrolled in M.F.A. programs at City College of New York and the Low-Residency MFA program at Goddard College.

Former students are also editing literary journals, including Clapboard House and and Kora. They are publishing and working at such organizations as The Savannah Morning News.

Our students regularly publish in and serve in editorial positions for on-campus publications such as Miscellany, The George-Anne, and The Reflector. In additon, many have had their work appear in off-campus publications. We have the highest record of undergraduate external publications as a department for undergraduates at Georgia Southern University.

Our graduates and current students have received a Pushcart Prize Nomination and a Creative Nonfiction award from the Arkansas Association of Public Universities. Our students have published chapbooks and books with BlazeVOX Publications, Vox Press, Scintillating Publications, Pudding House Press, and Paper Hero Press. Our students have published poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in many anthologies and in these nationally-recognized literary journals, among others: Word Riot, Ghoti, R.KV.R.Y. Quarterly, Edifice Wrecked, Cerebral Catalyst , Pequin, The Oklahoma Review, North Central Review, Pindeldyboz, Foliate Oak, Southern Exposure, The Powhatan Review, The Savannah Literary Journal, Monkey Bicycle, Toasted Cheese, Sub-Lit, Mud Luscious, Lamination Colony, Elimae, Dogzplot Flash Fiction, The Saint Ann's Review, Night Train, Hobart, Eclectica, Nth Position, Shoots and Vines, Pank, Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens: A Journal of Absurd and Surreal Fiction, The Legendary, Zygote in My Coffee, StoryGlossia, Paperwall, Thieves Jargon, The Cerebral Catalyst, Slab, The Dream People, Wandering Army, RobotMelon, Verbsap, Armarillo Bay Literary Magazine, DecomP, KORA , apocryphaltext , Willows Wept Review, Six Sentences, 3:AM Magazine, Keyhole Quarterly Journal, Wigleaf, Dogmatika, The Corduroy Mtn., Gloom Cupboard: Literature for the Common People, Vulcan, Pear Noir, Down Dirty Word, Mad Hatter's Review, The Externalist: A Journal of Perspectives, out of nothing, Poetic Diversity, Locust, Chronogram, Noneuclidean Café, Underground Voices: Poetry, Common Line, Right Hand Pointing, Silenced Press, Literary Tonic, Unlikely, The Orange Room Review, Mad Swirl, Juice, Strangeroad, VOX Journal, Hecale, Debris: A Literary/Art Magazine, Magnetic Morning, Powhatan Review, and others. (If you are an alumni and would like your publication listed below, please e-mail Sonya Huber at shuber (at) georgiasouthern.edu.)

Zach Bush ('07): Zachary C. Bush, class of '07, is the author of ANGLES OF DISORDER [BlazeVOX [books]]. His second full-length collection of poetry, AT SWAN DECAPITATION [VOX Press], is forthcoming in October 2009. He is an MFA candidate in Creative Writing at the City College of New York. He is also an Adjunct Instructor of English Literature and Composition at CCNY. His seventh chapbook, SPIN , is forthcoming through Kendra Steiner Editions (September 2009). Bush and his girlfriend live in Jersey City, NJ. 

Jordan Fennell: Clapboard House

Nathan Klose ('08): Pequin, The Oklahoma Review

Burney Marsh ('09): Burney Marsh, as Joe Frank Buckner, has had short stories and nonfiction published in North Central Review, Pindeldyboz, Foliate Oak, Southern Exposure, The Powhatan Review, The Savannah Literary Journal and other publications. His work has been anthologized and several times nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He received the 2008 Creative Nonfiction award from the Arkansas Association of Public Universities. Burney is also the founder and editor of Clapboard House, an online literary journal highlighted in BEST OF THE WEB—2008, edited by Steve Almond. He and his spouse live with a Basset Hound named Jean Louise Finch, but they call her Scout.

Patrick Shuler: Catastrophia (fiction anthology)

Conan Stuart ('07): Word Riot

Brandi Wells ('08): Ghoti Magazine, Foliate Oak, Nth Position,Toasted Cheese, Eclectica, Sub-lit, Mud Luscious, Lamination Colony, Elimae, Monkey Bicycle, Pequin, Dogzplot, The Saint Ann's Review, Night Train, Pindeldyboz, Hobart, and many, many others. Her blog contains links to updated publications.