Not to be outdone by his fellow first-year Assistant Professor Ander Monson, whose Solipsism essay is in the latest Best New American Essays volume, Manuel Muñoz, our first-year Assistant Professor in fiction, was just awarded a Whiting Writers’ Award at a ceremony in New York City. The award, which carries a $50,000 (!) prize, has been given annually for the past 23 years to promising writers early in their careers. Manuel’s latest book, The Faith Healer of Olive Avenue, is a wonderful collection of some shattering short stories. We at Sonora Review are super thrilled about the award, which serves to prove just how outstanding our teachers are. He runs a pretty sweet workshop, too.
This semester has been exhausting for some of the Sonora staff, but we’re still reading submissions for the journal, trying to get our online submission system up and running. Also, we’re thinking about posting some mean online content, short stories and poems and even essays, in the coming months. We’ll keep everyone posted.
