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Nov. 10, 2005
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MUW student Adam Burns nominated for Pushcart Prize

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Mississippi University for Women student Adam Burns of Louisville was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Burns, a junior English major with a creative writing concentration, received the nomination for his story “Obsession,” that was published by Chickflicksezine, an on-line literary magazine.

The Pushcart Prize has been around for about 25 years. To be nominated one must first be published in a national magazine. Writers are nominated by magazine editors or contributing editors of the “Pushcart Prize Anthology.” Only six works are allowed to be nominated each year.

Dr. Bebe Barefoot, assistant professor of English, said the Pushcart Prize is considered a professional writer league, one which not many undergraduates are a participant.

Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, MUW English professor and also a past Pushcart Prize nominee, said “It means that Adam’s story is among the cream of the crop of all that has been published in the U.S. in the past year, including many well-published writers.”

Dunkelberg said, “We are very proud of his achievement and wish him the best of luck in the final round of competition.”