Angus Woodward: You Found Me

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Angus Woodward is a writer and a teacher of writing. He has taught college writing since 1990 and is the founding director of the Center for Innovative Teaching & Engagement at Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His books of fiction are Down at the End of the River (Margaret Media, 2008), Americanisation (Livingston Press, 2011), and Oily (upcoming in 2018 from Spaceboy Books). His writing has been published a variety of periodicals, including recent scholarly pieces in Faculty Focus and Impact, short stories in Fiction Southeast and Alimentum, and personal essays in Medical Literary Messenger and Normal School.

Oxford American hailed Americanisation as “a hilariously crafted postmodern novel wedged into the template of a social-studies textbook for immigrants.” Of Americanisation’s innovative form, the New York Journal of Books said, “Since the novel is 500 years old, it has been hypothesized that the idiom is exhausted of original ideas. With Americanisation, Mr. Woodward disproves this hypothesis….” Americanisation also made Library Journal’s list of notable first novels for fall 2011. Michael Griffith called it " A darkly comic, delightful book.” Michael Martone said it was "...a hilarious simulacrum, a map more detailed than the thing it is meant to represent," and added, "It is drop-dead, deadpan funny.” You can contact Angus at awoodw64(at)gmail.com.

Journal and Anthology Publications

NON-FICTION:

*"I Wrote Something. This Is Not It," (Normal School, 2009)

*"Eleven in the Huddle," (Sport Literate, 2008)

*“Louisiana’s New Political Landscape,” (Living Blue in the Red States [anthology], University of Nebraska Press, 2007)

*“Lessons from Joe,” (Voices of Lung Cancer [anthology], LaChance, 2007)

*“Subjects for Other Conversations by John Stigall,” (Xavier Review, Summer 2002)

*“Frozen Embraces/Zamrznuti Zagrljaji by Biljana Obradovic,” (World Literature Today, Winter 2002).

*“Le Riche Monde by Biljana Obradovic,” (Prairie Schooner, Fall 2001).

*“Voodoo Poems and Magic Prose,” (The Writer's Chronicle, March/April
2001).

*“Trespassers,” (Brevity, Fall 1999).

*“Aviary Slag by Jacques Servin,” (Iowa Review, December 1997).

*“Anthony Kellman's Watercourse,” (Northwest Review, Spring 1992).

*“Toward a Definition of Poetic Fiction,” (Calypso, December 1990).

*“Anne Waldman's Helping the Dreamer,” (New Delta Review, Fall 1989).

*FICTION:

*"Applesauce" (Stolen Stories [anthology], Forest Publications)

*“The Product Tester’s Report” (Mochila Review, 2007)

*“Bad Word Storm” (Nightsun, 2007)

*“A Brief History of Toast” (Alimentum, Summer 2006)

*“Captivated” (Xavier Review, Spring 2004)

*“One Thing You Must Never Do” ( Sudden Stories [anthology], Mammoth Books, 2003)

*“Out There in TV Land,” (Pennsylvania English, Spring 2001).

*“Don't Put Me Down,” (Talking River Review, Summer 2000).

*“All Hail Digredi,” (In Praise of Pedagogy [anthology], Calendar Islands,
2000).

*“The Ride,” (Habersham Review, Spring 1998).

*“Hampton Figs,” (Gulf Stream Magazine, Spring 1997).

*“Qatar Is an Emirate,” (Louisiana Literature, Fall 1992).

*“The Story of Jane and George,” (The Dominion Review, Spring 1992).

*“Arrivals and Departures,” (The Laurel Review, Winter 1992).

*“Sooner or Later,” (Innisfree, July-August 1991).

*“Ice Cold,” (Innisfree, May-June 1991).

*“First Things First,”(Tucumcari Literary Review, September 1990).

*“Curiosities,” (Soundings East, July 1990).

*“That Particular Incident,” (Poultry, Fall 1989).

*POETRY:

*“The Recipe for Tomato Cabal” (Alimentum, Summer 2006).

*“A Tour of the Ferocious,” (Visual Poetry: An Artistic Dialogue, Baton Rouge Gallery exhibit and exhibition catalog, 1999).

*“Sisterhood,” “Gunland,” and “El Cheapo Poem About My Old Guitar Teacher,” (KingLog, Fall 1998: ).

*“Untitled Ode #5,772,” (Satire, Spring 1997).

*“The Seven Thousandth Day,” (Wisconsin Review, Winter 1993).

*“Azalea Street Winter,” (The Bellingham Review, Spring 1992).

*“The Newsman's Premonition,” (Birmingham Poetry Review, Summer 1991).

*“Love Song in Two Dimensions,” (Rhino, Fall 1990).

You Found Me

I was raised up north by southerners and moved to Louisiana in 1987, where I have lived ever since. My books of fiction are Down at the End of the River (Margaret Media, 2008), Americanisation (Livingston Press, 2011), and Oily (Spaceboy Books, 2018). I live, write, and teach in Baton Rouge.

My most recent work has been graphic narrative, published by these journals:

Slag Glass City

Heavy Feather Review

Action, Spectacle

Aquifer: The Florida Review Online

I experimented with using Prezi to turn a graphic narrative into short video, and the good folks at Aquifer / Florida Review online published the result here.

1 comment:

John Michael Cummings said...: Hi, Angus,

I read about you in Poets & Writers. I am really impressed by your literary accomplishments!

I have a short story collection coming out later this year: The Spirit in My Shoes (Cornerstone Press/University of Wisconsin, November 2023).

Will you please consider blurbing it?

Blurbs run from 50 to 100 words.

My deadline for blurbs is June 26.

Stories in my 50,000-word collection were originally published individually in literary journals.

I've pasted below the contents page.

May I email you the complete collection?

I hope my stories inspire you to comment. I would be honored.🙏🏻

Thank you kindly,

John Michael Cummings
johnmcummings@aol.com

(304) 620-4246
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/john_michael_cummings

Contents page:
"Like Apes," Berkeley Fiction Review, No. 11, 1992
“Genetic Drift," Eureka Literary Magazine, Vol. 10, No. 2, Spring 2002
“Silver Balloons,” Identity Theory, Feb. 2003
“Fourteen Seconds,” The North American Review, 2002
“Vineyards in a Far-off Land,” Phantasmagoria, 2003, Vol. 3, No.2
“The Spirit in My Shoes,” ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), No. 38
“Marshmallow People,” The Kenyon Review, Winter 2008, Vol. XXX, No.1
"Renting,” Terrain.org, No. 20, Summer/Fall 2007
“The Last Sailor,” The MacGuffin, Summer 2000, Vol. 17.2
“The Scratchboard Project,” * The Iowa Review, Vol. 36, No. 1, 2006
* Nominated for The Pushcart Prize
* Received honorable mention in The Best American Short Stories 2007
“Crows and Sparrows,” GW Review, Fall 2003, Vol. XXV
"The Houseplant Generation," Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, Vol. 7
“Alone,” The Scruffy Dog Review, Spring 2007
“We Never Liked Them Anyway,” Concho River Review, Vol. 18, No. 2
"Shadow Box," Painted Bride Quarterly, No. 52, 1993
“The Last Sailor,” The MacGuffin, Summer 2000, Vol. 17.2 “The Last Sailor,”
"Memory of Distant Friends," Sun Dog: The Southeast Review, Vol. 13, No. 2
"Missing," Alaska Quarterly Review, Volume 10, Spring & Summer 1992
"Electric Church," Portland Monthly Magazine, Summerguide 1991
"Pictures," Outerbridge, No. 24, 1993
"Short Lives," Hudson Valley Echoes, No. 31, 1993/94
"Lady in the Park," RE: Arts and Letters, Vol. XX, No. 2 1995
"Their Beloved Brimful Bubble Baths," Catalyst, Issue No. 13, 1993
"Every Living Thing," Westview, A Journal of Western Oklahoma, Summer 2000
Cover image; June 1, 2023 at 7:46 PM

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