Simon's Rock faculty members receive literary awards

GREAT BARRINGTON, MA- Two faculty members in literature, Brendan Mathews and Peter Filkins, have recently been awarded prizes for their work, each published in the Southwest Review. The Southwest Review is the third oldest continuously published quarterly literary journal in the country.

 

Peter Filkins received the 2007 Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award for his poem “Vermeer.”  Filkins teaches poetry and literature at Simon’s Rock. His translations, poetry, and critiques have been published by many journals, such as The New Republic, The American Scholar, New Criterion, Paris Review, Agni, American Poetry Review, Partisan Review, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, Southwest Review, Verse, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, Poetry Criticism, Contemporary Literary Criticism, USA Today, The World & I, the Los Angeles Times Book Review, and The New York Times Book Review.

 

Brendan Mathews was awarded the 2007 McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Fiction for his short story entitled "Concerning the So-Called One and Only God, as Told by Anu the All-Seeing Lord of the World-Covering Sky Vault."  He recently won another award as well, The Virginia Quarterly Review’s  Emily Clark Balch Prize for Short Story for the story, “Dunn & Sons,” which was published in last summer’s issue of The Virginia Quarterly Review. Mathews teaches creative writing and fiction at Simon’s Rock, and his stories have appeared in The Southern Review, TriQuarterly, Glimmer Train Stories, and others.