VICE
It’s a small academic publishing house, so nobody much cares, but the University of Georgia Press has really been fucking up lately.
First there was the revelation of the cozy corruption of its poetry contests, in which cronies routinely awarded cronies. Now there’s its fiction contest, which this year crowned a winner who plagiarized one of his stories:
U. of GA Press Recalls Short Stories, Revokes Prize
Brad Vice's short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, earned a fairly complimentary review in last Sunday's SF Chronicle. It may well be the last review the book will get, as the University of Georgia Press has announced that it is withdrawing the collection from bookstores.
"On October 13," according to UGA's official statement, "the Press learned from the Tuscaloosa Public Library that one of the stories in Vice's collection, 'Tuscaloosa Knights,' contained uncredited material from the fourth chapter of the first section of Carl Carmer's Stars Fell on Alabama, a publication of the University of Alabama Press. UGA Press immediately froze stock of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train and contacted Brad Vice for his response. Vice admitted that 'Tuscaloosa Knights' borrows heavily from Stars Fell on Alabama and that he had made a terrible mistake in neglecting to acknowledge Carmer's work. He further stated that he had done this without any malicious intent whatsoever."
In addition to recalling the book from circulation and allowing the publiciation rights to revert back [UD style note: "revert back" is redundant] to Vice, UGA will also re-assign the Flannery O'Connor Award it gave Vice last year to one of the other finalists.
Via Inside Higher Ed.
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