News Release

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March 21, 2006

Boise State’s Alan Heathcock Garners Honors From National Magazine Awards, Houghton Mifflin

One story by Alan Heathcock has garnered two honors for the adjunct Boise State University English professor.

His story, “The Peacekeeper,” was recently selected for inclusion in the Houghton Mifflin prize anthology Best American Mystery Stories 2006, edited by Scott Turow. The same story, which appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review in the Fall 2005 issue, is a finalist in the National Magazine Awards.

These honors put Heathcock in the same company as Isabel Allende, Joyce Carol Oates and Stephen King, each of who have been nominated for one or both awards. Heathcock will travel to New York for the National Magazine Awards (otherwise known as “The Ellies”), to be held at Jazz at Lincoln Center on May 9.

Heathcock is a 2004 graduate of Boise State’s MFA in creative writing program. His stories have been published in the Harvard Review and the Black Warrior Review, and has had a story named to the Best American Short Stories list of “100 Distinguished Stories.”

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Contact: Alan Heathcock, English Department, (208) 322-0167, aheathco@boisestate.edu
Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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