March 2010 — Northeastern University buys a Vocabula Review site license.

March 2010 — The Vocabula Review is now available from Harrassowitz's OttoSerials.

February 2010 — The National Association of Independent Writers and Editors buys a Vocabula Review site license.

October 2009 — Robert Hartwell Fiske is quoted in the Winston-Salem Journal.

October 2009 — Columbia University Libraries buys a Vocabula Review site license.

August 2009 — The August 2009 issue of The Vocabula Review marks our tenth year of publication. That's 120 issues since September 1999.

August 2009 — The 2009 Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest winners have been selected and are listed here:

First place: David Schwankle: "Have You Met My Uncle Jack?"

Second place: Jim Ruland: "The Numbers"

Honorable mention:
Margaret Rozga: "Leave Room for Cream"
Babs Griswold: "Who Are You and What Have You Done with My Husband?"
Julie Liedman: "Scents and Sensibilities"
D. I. Telbat: "Death by Kindness"

All six essays will be published in the September Vocabula.

April 2009 — Robert Hartwell Fiske is quoted in About.com: Grammar & Composition: Gobsmacked by Susan Boyle.

November 2008 — Speaking of Silence (or Agnes and Otto) has been published and is now available for sale.

November 2008 — Robert Hartwell Fiske is quoted in NewsOK: Listen can be noun, media-speak says.

September 2008 — Vocabula Bound 2: Our Wresting, Writhing Tongue has been published and is now available for sale.

August 2008 — Silence, Language, & Society: A guide to style and meaning, grace and compassion has been published.

July 2008 — The 2008 Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest winners have been selected and are listed here:

First place: Ben Saunders: "Superman the Beautiful"

Second place: Robert Montgomery: "Snowfall on Football"

Honorable mention:
Rinna Samuel: "The Red Rug"
David Palmer: "How to Commit Suicide"
Joan Taber: "A Question of Reason"
Steven Cushing: "Slow Down, Listen Up"
Anne Goldman: [Untitled]
Kathryn Work: "By Herself"
Nancy Burkhalter: "Why We Swear"
Bruce O. Boston: "Arts Education: Discovering Who We Are"
Samantha Miller: "red skies, instant pleasure, and kids playin' footsie"

All eleven essays will be published in the September Vocabula.

June 2008 — Vocabula Bound 1: Outbursts, Insights, Explanations, and Oddities has been published and is now available for sale.

March 2008 — Twenty-eight essayists and ten poets who have been published in The Vocabula Review will also be published in Vocabula Bound 2.

January 2008 — Robert Hartwell Fiske was interviewed on Sirius Satellite Radio's "Across the Nation."

December 2007 — The Vocabula Review publishes its 100th issue this month.

October 2007 — Six Vocabula authors were nominated for the 2007 Pushcart Prize.

October 2007 — Robert Hartwell Fiske and his Dimwit's Dictionary are mentioned in an Arizona Star Gazette article and on Townhall.com.

September 2007 — Robert Hartwell Fiske announces the new and yearly Vocabula Well-Written Writing Contest.

August 2007 — Several of Skip Eisiminger's Vocabula essays are published, along with other work, in Felix Academicus: Tales of a Happy Academic.

August 2007 — Robert Hartwell Fiske and Vocabula are mentioned in a Wall Street Journal article about "leetspeak."

February 2007 — EBSCO now includes The Vocabula Review in its Literary Reference Center database, which many thousands of libraries subscribe to.

January 2007 — George Witte's poem "At Dusk, the Catbird," published in Vocabula originally, was chosen by Heather McHugh for the Best American Poetry 2007 anthology, to be published by Scribner in the fall of 2007.