Joe Peacock

Joseph W. Peacock

Awards and Honors (Education, Teaching, Writing)

—Grant and assistantship to John Carroll University, 1965-66

—Poetry Award from Gwendolyn Brooks, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, Summer 1970:

            “For a superior work-in-progress in the field of poetry,” cash prize

—Jefferson County Board of Education Recognition and Commendation Award: For participation

            in the Louisville Writing Project, May 9, 1983

—Jefferson County Board of Education Recognition and Commendation Award: For presentation at

            the National Council of Teachers of English, presented June 9, 1986

—Elected to Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers: (1) Fifth Edition, Vol. III, 1998; (2) Seventh           Edition, Vol. II, 2002; (3) Eighth Edition, Vol. II, 2003-04; (4) Ninth Edition, 2004-05.

—First Place Prize ($1000 cash prize shared with two others): Sara Jean McDowell Award, June

            30, 2004, Creative Writing Committee at the University of Louisville (for short fiction)

—Third Place (cash prize): Literary LEO Contest, 2005, for “At Seven,” a poem

—Honorable Mention: Literary LEO Contest, 2005, for “Pale Flag,” a short story

—Honorable Mention: Literary LEO Contest, 2006, for “The Barn Cats,” a short story

 

Publications and Writings

• “April 4, 1968: For Dr. Martin Luther King and a Little Man,” and “At the Death of

  • My Grandma," Mississippi Valley Review, 1968

• “Summer Need Not Die,” poem, Pegasus, Spring/Summer 1980

• “Gottesacker,” poem, Pegasus, Fall/Winter 1981

• Teaching guides for the novels Siddhartha and The Stranger: (Living Literature

  • Series, E & R Development Company, 1971)

• Editing and consulting work, Writing: Process to Product (John Parker, Addison-

  • Wesley, 1985)

• “Research Revisited: Or, How I Learned to Love the Readers’ Guide,” article,

  • English Journal, November 1987

• Contributor to Teacher's Resource Book—Speech: Exploring Communication (J.

  • Regis O'Connor, Prentice Hall, 1988)

• “At Seven,” a poem, Literary LEO Contest (third place, cash prize), 2005

• “The Power of the Narrator: Rethinking The Great Gatsby,” extended critical essay in

  • partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree, Spalding University, 2007

• Another Day Dying, collection of short stories in partial fulfillment of the

  • requirements for the Master of Fine Arts degree, Spalding University 2008

• The Ninth Life of Remy Zen-Cat, a novel in manuscript, 59,000 words, presently

  • being shopped for publication

• “Five Miles Past Hana,” poem, The Voice, Volume 2, 2010

• “Barn Cats,” short story, Co-winner of 2010 Trajectory Short Story Contest, Fall

  • 2010

• “Pat Conroy's My Reading Life,” Southern Humanities Review, Fall 2011

• “The Treacherous Currents in This River,” book review, Trajectory, Summer 2011

• “At Seven,” included in Bigger Than They Appear: Anthology of Very Short Poems,

  • Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, editor, Accents Publishing 2011

• “The Girl in the White Culottes,” short story, Enhance, July 2012

• “Will the Real Tim O'Brien Please Stand Up,” book review, The Literary Yard, 2012

• “Raking Miss Hannah's Leaves,” short story, 94 Creations 2, 2012

• “Old,” short story, Ragnarok, 2012

• On the Street, photograph, Trajectory, Spring 2013

• “Will the Real Tim O'Brien Please Stand Up,” book review, Trajectory Fall 2013,

  • reprinted with permission of The Literary Yard

• “All this Distance” and “The Road to Hana,” poems, Trajectory, Fall 2014

• Flying Without Wings, a memoir in manuscript, 60,000 words, presently being

  • shopped for publication

• “The Wake,” short story, Snapping Twig (online), April 25, 2015

• "The Long Ride Home," short story, Trajectory, Fall 2015 (November or December,

  • 2015)