Recent MFA Graduate Amanda McCormick Wins 2016 Plork Award
June 14, 2016
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Amanda McCormick, M.F.A. '16, is the winner of the 2016 Plork Award, which honors a University of Baltimore graduate student whose work best exemplifies the spirit of the Creative Writing & Publishing Arts graduate program, exhibiting extraordinary creativity, originality and imagination in the integration of creative writing and book design.
McCormick was selected for the award for her final seminar project, a book of poems entitled Amanda that she both wrote and produced. The award also recognized her many exceptional creative contributions to all aspects of this spring's final MFA reading event.
"We are forever changed by what Amanda brought to the program," said Kendra Kopelke, director of the MFA program. "Because of her, 'plork' is more alive than ever."
The term "plork," derived from the combination of "work + play," is what happens when writers feel free to experiment and play. The spirit of plork is at the heart of the MFA program; as described on the MFA website, "…it will carry into your classes when you write your books, make your books, work with your fellow classmates, perform your work and more."
The Plork Award carries with it a $500 prize from the Klein Family School of Communications Design's Randolph Avery Fund.
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