Contributor Susann Cokal Awarded Printz Honor.
Issue 1.1 Contributor Susann Cokal has been awarded a silver medal Honor from the American Library Association’s 2014 Printz Award series for her novel The Kingdom of Little Wounds. The Printzes are selected annually for excellence in young adult literature, and the prize series is one of the highest honors for the genre. Read more about the novel and...
On exhibit, November 2013: Chad Hunt’s wartime photo essay “Ghosting Home.”
On Friday, Nov. 1, renowned photojournalist Chad Hunt will take part in coffee and conversation as part of the opening of a two-week photo exhibit of his photographs of soldiers in and after Afghanistan. “Ghosting Home,” featuring images taken during Hunt’s time embedded in Korengai Province, Afghanistan, is a...
Dear Life: A Childhood Visitation by Nobel-Prize Winner Alice Munro
Alice Munro was just awarded the Nobel Prize in literature this past week. Munro, a Canadian-born author, was described by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm (responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize) as “master of the contemporary short story.” Born in Wingham, Ontario, Munro published her first story while studying at the University of...
I Am Malala
The Huffington Post featured an article on the ‘Huff Post Books’ section of their site this week about the young Pakistani girl Malala Yousafzai who was shot in the head by the Taliban on her way home from school. Malala has been an advocate for children’s education in Pakistan and is continuing her campaign despite...
The Spoils of Saint Hubris
One of the founding advisers of Broad Street, Sterling Hundley is an award-winning artist and associate professor in the Department of Communication Arts at Virginia Commonwealth University. Hundley has won numerous awards for his work, including gold medals for “Death of a Salesman” and “Shipwrecked,” as well as being featured in various private collections and...
