{"id":4103,"date":"2018-10-27T23:25:21","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T03:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/?p=4103"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T18:42:22","slug":"phd-alum-theo-greenblatt-publishes-in-prestigious-london-magazine-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/news\/phd-alum-theo-greenblatt-publishes-in-prestigious-london-magazine-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"PhD Alum Theo Greenblatt Publishes in Prestigious London Magazine and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is wrapping up with a bang for writer, teacher, and URI PhD, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theogreenblatt.com\/about\/\">Theo Greenblatt<\/a>. Her prose, traversing a range of genres from flash and short fiction to memoir to Montaignian essay, has caught the attention of numerous editors this year. In the early spring, Theo\u2019s short story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondonmagazine.org\/short-story-competition-2017-winners\">Solitaire<\/a>\u201d won first prize in the prestigious&nbsp;<i>London Magazine<\/i>\u2019s annual short story contest, and she traveled to London for the awards celebration at the House of Commons.&nbsp;As a result, she was honored by some <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-graduate-writer-wins-short-story-contest-in-prestigious-the-london-magazine\/\">terrific press from URI<\/a> and local Rhode Island papers and more recently, Boston arts e-zine,&nbsp;<i>It&#8217;s All about Arts,<\/i>&nbsp;chose Theo as the cover story for their November issue.&nbsp;Her other publications in the spring and summer included a haunting \u201cMe, Too\u201d memoir entitled \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/salthilljournal.net\/\">Juicy Fruit<\/a>\u201d in&nbsp;<i>Salt Hill Journal<\/i>; a flash fiction piece, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/meatfortea.com\/buy.htm\">Lotus Flower<\/a>,\u201d in&nbsp;<i>Meat for Tea: The Valley Review<\/i>, and another short story, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/sfwp.com\/hyperosmia-by-theo-greenblatt\/\">Hyperosmia,<\/a>\u201d in the&nbsp;<i>Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly<\/i>. Currently, her essay, \u201cNot Dead Yet,\u201d an insider\u2019s take on the early \u201880s Boston punk scene, is online in the Fall issue of&nbsp;<i>JENNY<\/i>, and two more short publications are anticipated: a flash fiction work entitled \u201cArchangel\u201d will appear in&nbsp;<i>The Normal School Online&nbsp;<\/i>shortly, and a flash essay, \u201cInfrastructure,\u201d will debut in the upcoming issue of&nbsp;<i>The Lindenwood Review<\/i>. In addition to these varied publications, Theo\u2019s nonfiction piece, \u201cLa, La How the Life Goes On,\u201d was chosen as a finalist in the&nbsp;<i>Arts &amp; Letters<\/i>&nbsp;2018 \u201cUnclassifiables\u201d contest, attesting to the diversity of her writing. She looks forward to finding a publisher soon for a book-length memoir on \u201870s counter-culture education as well as a collection of short stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2018 is wrapping up with a bang for writer, teacher, and URI PhD, Theo Greenblatt. Her prose, traversing a range of genres from flash and short fiction to memoir to Montaignian essay, has caught the attention of numerous editors this year. In the early spring, Theo\u2019s short story, \u201cSolitaire\u201d won first prize in the prestigious&nbsp;London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":953,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4435,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4103\/revisions\/4435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}