Isotope News

2009 :: Mark A. Smith’s essay “Animalcules and Other Little Subjects” won the 2008 John Burroughs Award for an Outstanding Published Nature Essay The essay was first published in the Fall/Winter 2008 (6.2) issue of Isotope and also has been selected for inclusion in the 2009 edition of The Best American Science and Nature Writing.

2008 :: John Taylor’s book Into the Heart of European Poetry was published by Transaction Publishers in August 2008. Excerpts from Taylor’s If Night is Falling were published in the Spring/Summer 2007 (5.1) issue of Isotope.

2008 :: Dan Stryk’s book Dimming Radiance (Poems and Prose Parables) was published by Wind Publications in April 2008. Stryk’s poem “Life in Death” appeared in the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of Isotope.

2008 :: Isotope was recently reviewed in Literary Magazine Review, volume 25, where Michelle Parkinson said, “The visual beauty of the publication, the overall quality of its selections, the sensible and sensitive ordering of its contents, and the complex ways in which the writings and pictures resonate thematically with each other make the journal a success.”

2008 :: Robert Michael Pyle’s recent book Skytime in Gray’s River: Living For Keeps in a Forgotten Place (Hougthon Mifflin) has received the 2007 National Outdoor Book Award (NOBA) for Natural History Literature. His poetry and prose appeared in the fall/winter 2007(5.2) issue of Isotope.

2008 :: Jeff Porter’s essay “Trace Elements” and Edward Christian Wolf’s essay “The Counterfeit Salmon of the Cevennes,” both of which appeared in the fall/winter 2007 (5.2) issue of Isotope, received notable mentions in The Best American Science and Nature Writing of 2008, edited by Jerome Groopman, M.D. “Trace Elements” can also be found in Porter’s book Oppenheimer is Watching Me: A Memoir, published by University of Iowa Press.

2008 :: Michael Branch’s “The V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. Project” and Ira Swkrungruang’s “Into the Country,” both of which appeared in the fall/winter 2007 (5.2) issue of Isotope, received notable mentions in The Best American Essays of 2008, edited by Adam Gopnik. “The V.E.C.T.O.R.L.O.S.S. Project” also received a notable mention in The Best American Nonrequired Reading of 2008. 

2008 :: Laurie Clements Lambeth, whose poem “Back Lot Field Notes” appeared in the fall/winter 2005 (3.2) issue of Isotope, won the National Poetry Series Open Competition in 2006 for her first book of poetry Veil and Burn, which was published in March 2008 by University of Illinois Press. “Back Lot Field Notes” is included in the collection.

2008 :: John Price's new book Man Killed by Pheasant: And Other Kinships is now available from Da Capo Press. An essay in the book, "Why Snow Geese Don't Winter in Paradise," originally appeared in Isotope.

2007 :: Alison Hawthorne Deming's "The Rabbit on Mars" (issue 4.1) is reprinted in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).

2007 :: Sunshine O'Donnell's essay "Consumption" (issue 3.1) is reprinted in The Best Creative Nonfiction, vol. 1 (W.W. Norton, 2007).

2007 ::  Susan Woodring's story "Inertia"  (issue 4.2) is reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007 (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). 

Fall 2007 :: Susan Woodring (issue 4.2) is included in Surreal South:  An Anthology of Short Fiction & Poetry (Press 53, 2007).

Fall 2007 :: Sharon White's essay "Bamboo" (issue 4.2) will be published in her book Gardens and the City, forthcoming from University of Georgia Press in 2008. The book won the AWP 2007 Award Series Prize in Creative Nonfiction.

10.2007 :: Rob Carney's (issue 5.1) book Weather Report wins the Utah Center for the Book's Utah Book Award for Poetry for 2006.

10.2007 :: Donna Steiner's essay "Cold" (issue 4.1) and Robert King's essay "The Granite Problem" are named "Notable Essays" in Best American Essays 2007 (Houghton Mifflin 2007). 

2007 :: Robert Michael Pyle has a new book out, Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place (Houghton Mifflin, 2007).

2.15.07 :: Ceiridwen Terrill's (issue 3.2) book, Unnatural Landscapes, is released (University of Arizona Press, 2007).

2007 :: Gabriel Welsch (issue 4.1) has a new book of poems out, Dirt and All Its Dense Labor (WorldTech Editions, 2007).

2006 :: Isotope (issue 4.2) publishes a previously unpublished poem by May Swenson. Read the press release.

2006 :: Isotope awarded a grant from the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation.

12.2006 :: Isotope awarded a first-time grant from National Endowment of the Arts.

10.2006 ::  Jeffrey Franklin ( issue 1.2) has a new book out, For the Lost Boys (Ghost Road Press, 2006).

2006 :: Isotope awarded a grant by the Utah Arts Council.

10.2006 :: Jason Alexander's essay “Time on Ice” from issue 3.2 made the notable essay list in Best American Essays 2006.

10.2006 :: Isotope's 3.2 “Antarctica” issue named a "Notable Special Issue" in Best American Essays 2006.

10.25.05 :: Doug Schnitzspahn’s essay “Spectra” from issue 2.1 made the notable essay list in Best American Essays 2005.

10.25.05 :: Marilyn Kallet (issue 1.2) has a new book of poems out, Circe, After Hours (BkMk Press of University of Missouri/KC, 2005). This spring Marilyn was inducted into the East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame in poetry.

9.6.05 :: Lisa Couturier was interviewed by Lee Austin on Utah Public Radio about her recently published book The Hope of Snakes (Beacon, 2005). Two selections from the book, “The City’s Laughter” and “Talks With Vultures,” appeared in the Spring/Summer 2005 3.1 issue.

2005 :: Portfolio and Spring/Summer 3.1 cover artitst Richard Gate’s latest gallery showing was reviewed in the L.A. Times.

2004 :: Readings from “Scientists and Writers Respond to Sallie Tisdale’s Sexual Planet,” which appeared in the Fall/Winter 2.2 issue, aired on Utah Public Radio’s Synechdoche program.

2004 :: Editor Christopher Cokinos interviewed by Lee Austin on Utah Public Radio about Isotope.

2003 :: Liz Ahl’s poem “Signs, Spring,” which appeared in the Spring/Summer 2003 1.1 issue, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.