April 23, 2008

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BIRMINGHAM, Ala - PMS poemmemoirstory, a national literary magazine published by the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of English, has won recognition by The Best American Essays series for 2008 published by Houghton Mifflin.

The winning work is a memoir by Patricia Brieschke titled "Cracking Open." The memoir appeared in the seventh edition of PMS in 2007. It is the third essay from PMS that has been selected for the annual prize anthology in four years.

Magazines that have been represented in The Best American Essays anthologies include The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. The literary magazines represented in the volumes include Virginia Quarterly, Creative Nonfiction, and Shenandoah.

PMS is a journal of women's poetry, memoirs and short stories and is published annually. The editor-in-chief is Linda Frost, Ph.D., an associate professor of English at UAB. Essays from PMS have been selected for inclusion in both issues of the new anthology The Best Creative Nonfiction series published by W.W. Norton & Co.

The 2008 edition of PMS, No.8, which is now on sale, is a collection of African-American women writers. The guest editor is award-winning poet Honorée Fannone Jeffers. Other featured writers in the eighth edition include Nikki Giovanni, Edwidge Danticat and Lucille Clifton, as well as an interview with Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Tretheway.

For subscription information and submission guidelines visit the Web site at www.pms-journal.org.