Jeffrey Condran

Associate Professor

Office: Stabler Hall 501-T
Phone: 501-916-3161
Email: [email protected]

Educational Background

  • MFA, Creative Writing—Fiction, University of Pittsburgh, 1998
  • B.A., English Writing, University of Pittsburgh, 1995

Areas of Focus

Professor Condran teaches courses in our Creative Writing program (fiction). He also teaches contemporary literature, European literature, and editing & independent press administration. He is the author of two works of fiction: a short story collection, A Fingerprint Repeated (Press 53), and a novel, Prague Summer (Counterpoint). He is the faculty co-advisor of UA Little Rock’s literary magazine, Equinox, and co-founder/publisher of the independent literary Press, Braddock Avenue Books.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Prague Summer: a novel. Counterpoint. August, 2014
  • A Fingerprint Repeated: Stories. Press 53. October, 2013

Stories

  • “1983.” Big Muddy. Vol. 17.1 (2017): (Print)
  • “Death of the Writer.” Epoch. Vol. 66.2 (2017): 186-199 (Print)
  • “Salt of the Earth.” Fourth River. Number 14 (2017): 189-207 (Print)
  • “Black Dog.” Jabberwock Review Vol. 36.1 (2015).
  • “Brigadoon.” Epoch. Vol. 62, Number 3 (2014).
  • “Building Cities in the Desert.” Kenyon Review. Vol. 35, Number 4 (2013).
  • “Beggar.” Pear Noir! Issue 8 (2012) — nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
  • “Praha.” The Missouri Review Vol. 32, Issue 2 (2009). Winner of the 2010 William Peden Prize

Nonfiction

“An Interview with Stewart O’Nan.” The Writer’s Chronicle

Selected Awards

  • The Sewanee Writers’ Conference Walter E. Dakin Fellowship in Fiction (2017)
  • Silver Medal for Literary Fiction, Independent Publisher Book Awards for Prague Summer (2015)
  • Finalist, Carol R. Brown Award for an Emerging Writer — $15,000 (2013)
  • Pushcart Prize Nomination for “Beggar” (2012) – Nominated by Pear Noir!
  • The Sewanee Writers’ Conference Georges and Anne Borchardt Scholarship in Fiction (2012)
  • The Cincinnati Review’s Robert and Adele Schiff Prize Honorable Mention (2011) – Selected by Michael Griffith.
  • James Jones First Novel Fellowship Top Ten Finalist (2011) – Selected by Bonnie Culver, Laurie Moyer, and Nina Solomon from 667 manuscripts.
  • The Missouri Review’s William Peden Prize – $1000 (2010) – Selected by Steve Yarbrough