Concordia College, home of Ascent, enjoys a unique relationship with the National Book Foundation, presenters of the National Book Award.  Each year the College attends the award ceremony in New York, and then brings National Book Award winners and finalists to campus for a series of talks, master classes, and a large evening program.  You will find links to videos of the 2008 and 2009 evening events under the Other Forms button on top.  2008 featured Jim Shepard and Woody Holton.  2009 featured Maxine Hong Kingston and Annette Gordon-Reed.

The University of Texas Press has published the 2009 volume of  Best of the West: New Stories from the Wide Side of the Missouri  which lists Lawrence Coates’ “Belmont” as a “Notable Western Story of the Year.”  http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/books/horbep.html

Congratulations to Everyone!

Foreign and Domestic, poems by H. Palmer Hall, has just been published by Turning Point.  More information is available at http://www.turningpointbooks.com

The Hundred Cuts: Sitting Bull and the Major, poems by Colin Morton, has just been published by BuschekBooks in Ottawa, Canada.  More information is available at http://www.buschekbooks.com

 Seeded Light, new poems by Ed Byrne is available from Turning Point Books.  More information is available at http://www.turningpointbooks.com

Then, Something, poems by Patracia Fargnoli, has been published by Tupelo Press.  More information is abailable at http://www.tupelopress.org

How Women Work, a chapbook of poems by Mary Lee Bragg, has been published in a numbered limited edition by Grove Avenue Press in Ottawa, Canada.

Dear Reader,

Welcome to the new on-line format for Ascent magazine.  After 32 years in print form, we’ve moved to a completely on-line format and we are very excited about the transition!

Here are some things you should know about our new format– Continue reading →