Past Creative Writing Events (Archived)
Spring 2025 |
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Common Ground Reading Friday, January 24, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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Harpur Palate Issue 23.2 Launch Friday, January 31, 6pm - 7:30pm This event will celebrate Harpur Palate's new issue publication with readings by Molly Peacock; Ali Beheler, winner of the Milton J. Kessler Poetry Prize; and Kessler prize finalists Isra Cheema and John Blair. |
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Coffee & Conversation Wednesday, February 12, 11am - 12pm Graduate Creative Writing students are invited to share ideas. Is there some activity or initiative you鈥檇 like to oversee and run? Something you鈥檙e excited to see take shape? Have ideas for future Coffee & Conversation topics? A suggestion box will be available. |
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Alumni Reading with Nathan Lipps and Leah Umansky Wednesday, February 12, 6pm - 8pm Nathan Lipps is the author of Built Around the Fire and the chapbook the Body as Passage. Born and raised along the rural coast of western Michigan, he currently lives in Ohio and works as an Assistant Professor at Central State University. His work has been published in the Best New Poets, Colorado Review, Cleaver, EcoTheo Review, North American Review, and elsewhere. Leah Umansky is the author of three collections, including her most recent book, Of Tyrant. She earned her MFA in Poetry at Sarah Lawrence College and has curated and hosted the COUPLET Reading Series in New York City since 2011. Her creative work has been featured in The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, Poem-a-Day from the Academy of American Poets, Poetry magazine, and elsewhere. |
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A Reading and Conversation with Wendy Wimmer Tuesday, February 18, 6pm - 8pm Wendy Wimmer is the author of Entry Level, a story collection that received the 2021 Autumn House Fiction Prize. The Washington Post called it one of the short story collections worth reading for Fall 2022, and People magazine called it 鈥済leefully subversive.鈥 The book was also named to Kirkus Reviews鈥 Best Indie Short Fiction list for 2022 and was an honoree for the Society of Midland Authors 2023 Book Awards. Wimmer鈥檚 novel, The Doomscroller鈥檚 Companion, is forthcoming from the University of Wisconsin Press in Fall 2026. She lives in Wisconsin. |
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Common Ground Reading Friday, February 28, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series with Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi Thursday, March 6, 6pm - 8pm Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi is an American novelist and nonfiction writer. The author of Savage Tongues, Call Me Zebra, and Fra Keeler, Oloomi has received a Whiting Award and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" award and was the 2023-2024 Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Fiction Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. Born in Los Angeles, she spent her childhood in Iran, the United Arab Emirates, and Spain, and she speaks Farsi, Italian, and Spanish. Oloomi is the Dorothy G. Griffin College Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame. |
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A Reading and Conversation with Chris Abani Wednesday, April 9, 6pm - 8pm In a special collaboration with the Human Rights Institute, the Creative Writing Program welcomes novelist, poet, essayist, playwright, and screenwriter Chris Abani. He is the author of the poetry collections Smoking the Bible and Sanctificum, the novels Song for Night and GraceLand, and the memoir The Face, among many other books. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish, German, Swedish, Romanian, Hebrew, Macedonian, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Dutch, Bosnian, and Serbian. Through his TED Talks and other public speaking, Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibility. |
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Word of Mouth, Part 1 Thursday, April 17, 6pm In this fourth annual collaboration between the Music Department and Creative Writing Program, composers and writers perform their genre-defying, original compositions. |
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Common Ground Reading Friday, April 25, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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Book Launch for What to Wear Out Wednesday, April 30, 6pm - 8pm Join the Creative Writing Program in celebrating the launch of Associate Director Jen DeGregorio's debut poetry collection, What to Wear Out. Jen will be introduced by Professor Leslie Heywood; she will read from her collection and participate in a Q&A led by Creative Writing Director and Professor Tina Chang. Books will be for sale and refreshments served. |
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Festival of the Arts Wednesday, May 7 - Friday, May 9 The School of the Arts hosts performances and visual art exhibitions from BU鈥檚 arts departments and the Creative Writing Program, which will host two events on Friday, May 9, in the Casadesus Recital Hall (Fine Arts Building): 鈻 Poetpalooza, a group poetry reading, from 3pm-4:30pm 鈻 Word of Mouth (Part 2), performances of original student compositions created through a collaboration between the Music Department and Creative Writing Program, from 5:30pm-6:15pm. |
Fall 2024 |
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Coffee & Conversation Wednesday, August 28, 11am - 12pm Graduate students in Creative Writing, join us for an informal conversation with Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, as we get to know new Associate Director of Creative Writing, Jen DeGregorio. We will also welcome our new students and hold a suggestion box for all creative ideas for the year. Coffee, tea, and food served (including vegan options). |
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Common Ground Reading Series Friday, September 20, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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The Field Exam: Planning and Completing Your Exams Wednesday, September 25, 11am - 12pm Associate Director of Creative Writing Jen DeGregorio reviews the field exam, offering a personal perspective on how she conceptualized, planned, and completed three exams in four years. She will answer any questions you may have on this crucial step toward earning your doctorate and how it can contribute in a meaningful way to your creative work and dissertation. |
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A Reading with Poet Eugenia Leigh Wednesday, October 9, 6pm - 8pm Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca (Four Way Books, March 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late Night Library's 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry selected by Arisa White as well as a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Best New Poets anthology, the Best of the Net anthology, and elsewhere. Poems from Bianca were awarded Poetry magazine's 2021 Bess Hokin Prize and received Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology. |
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The Fulbright Program: Wednesday, October 30, 11am - 12pm Professor Thomas Glave, a two-time Fulbright Scholar (Jamaica, 1998-99; the UK, 2021-22), offers advice on the application process, the benefits of the Fulbright for creative writers, and discusses his personal experience in the program. |
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Common Ground Reading Wednesday, November 8, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series with Curtis Chin Wednesday, November 13, 6pm - 8pm Curtis Chin is the author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little, Brown, 2023). A cofounder of the Asian American Writers鈥 Workshop in New York City, Chin served as the nonprofit鈥檚 first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social-justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over six hundred venues in twenty countries. |
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The 网曝黑料 Writers Project: A Feast of Words Sunday, November 24, 12pm - 2:30pm A Feast of Words includes a community poetry workshop led by PhD students Sam Corradetti and Matthew Midgett, an open mic hosted by PhD candidate Jordan Franklin, a book raffle, and reception. This event is free and open to the public. |
Spring 2024 |
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Writing The Field Exam: The Dilemma of Research Thursday, February 15th at 12pm-1pm| University Union Basement West (UU WB08) Professor Arian will offer sound advice about starting, managing, and ending research, and ways of moving forward toward completing a well-researched paper while keeping deadlines in mind. This is the 2nd of a two part talk offered by Professor Arian. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Friday, February 23rd at 6pm| The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge. Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate writers. This particular installment is an undergraduate CW focused reading. |
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Coffee & Conversation with Director Tina Chang Wednesday, February 28th at 11am | LN1128 Cemers Conference Room Current creative writing MA and PhD students are invited to have a casual conversation with Creative Writing Director, Tina Chang. This session's focus: In the professional job search, a CV is more than a document; it's your narrative of expertise. This Coffee & Conversation will focus on creating CVs that leave an impact, showcasing your unique qualities and standing out in a competitive job market. |
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Are You Ready For The Future? What does it mean to be human in a nearly post-human era? Fusing masterful verse by Sasha Stiles with captivating language experiments by her AI alter ego and full-color images of Stiles' critically acclaimed art, her poetry collection, Technelegy, captures the thrill and peril of our intimate relationship with technology in a profoundly original and provocative hybrid text. Please join us for two days of poetry readings, panel discussion, and an art exhibition featuring the work of Sasha Stiles and 网曝黑料 poetry and art students. |
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March 13th at 5-7pm | 网曝黑料 Art Museum Poetry Reading and Book Signing by Sasha Stiles Thursday, March 14th at 1pm | The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge A panel discussion hosted by Leslie Heywood with Sasha Stiles, Gregory Hallenbeck, and Christopher Swift. Thursday March 14th at 6pm | Rosefsky Gallery Exhibition of the work of Sasha Stiles along with collaborative works by Jenn Powers & Ah鈥橨anae Johnson, Mercia Kandukira & Kyra Grays, Shin Wantanabe & Justin Wang, Suzanne Richardson & Yun-Woo Son, Shannon Hearn & Addy Phoenix, AJ White & Gabriella Harbord, Samia Ahmed & Jade Kirdahy. Collaborations led by Director of Creative Writing All events are hosted by the 网曝黑料 Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with Department of Art & Design & The BU Art Museum. Sponsored by the TAE Seed Grant. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Wednesday, March 20 at 6:00pm|网曝黑料 Art Museum Angie Cruz is a novelist and editor whose most recent novel is How Not To Drown in A Glass of Water (2022). It was shortlisted by The Aspen Words Literary Prize, winner of the Gold Medal, Latino Book Award/The Isabel Allende Most Inspirational Book Award, longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize and chosen for The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2022 and The Washington Post 50 Notable Works of Fiction. Her novel Dominicana was the inaugural book pick for GMA book club and shortlisted for The Women鈥檚 Prize, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction, a RUSA Notable book and the winner of the ALA/YALSA Alex Award in fiction. It was also named most anticipated/ best book in 2019 by Time, Newsweek, People, Oprah Magazine, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and Esquire. Cruz is also the author of two other novels Soledad and Let It Rain Coffee. |
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A Reading with Poet Lindsay Bernal Friday, April 5th at 6pm | Science Building 1 room #149 Lindsay Bernal is the author of What It Doesn't Have to Do With (University of Georgia Press, 2018), winner of the National Poetry Series. Poems from her second, in-progress manuscript have appeared in Action, Spectacle, the Georgia Review, Full Bleed, New England Review, Oversound, Poem-a-Day, and other journals. She coordinates the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, where she also co-directs the Writers Here & Now reading series and teaches in the undergraduate program. |
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Coffee & Conversation with Creative Writing Professor Claire Luchette Wednesday, April 10th | 11am-12pm | CEMERS Conf. Room LN 1128 The topic for this C&C is personal statements. Personal statements can be tricky, but they need not be intimidating! In this informal discussion, we'll look at examples of successful statements. We'll also go over dos and don'ts, as well as ways to make your statements shine. |
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Common Ground Reading Wednesday, April 17th at 6pm | Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate writers. This installment is a dissertation focused reading for graduating creative writing students. |
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Word of Mouth Thursday, April 25th 5pm |网曝黑料 Art Museum In this third annual collaboration between the 网曝黑料 Music Department and Creative Writing Program, composers, writers and performers create genre-defying compositions that celebrate poetry, music and the singing voice. The performance will coincide with the 网曝黑料 Art Museum's exhibition, Painted Exchanges: Artists and Printmakers. |
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SOAR Showcase Event Friday, May 3rd at 6-8pm |John Arthur Caf茅 School of Arts First Annual Showcase. A night of cinema, poetry, and music hosted by Director of Creative Writing Tina Chang and Professor Joe Weil. |
Spring 2023 |
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Alumni Reading A 网曝黑料 alum, Tara Betts is the author of the poetry collections , , and . She acts as Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and is the founder of the nonprofit organization The Whirlwind Learning Center. This event will also feature readings by current Ph.D. students Cole Depuy and Jordan Franklin. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series 's memoir, , is a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as featured on Today, as well as a New York Times Bestseller. His poetry collection, , won the Northern California Book Award (2018) and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2019). [Update circa 3/9: This in-person event is sold out, but will also be livestreaming on Zoom.] |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Word of Mouth In this second annual collaboration between the 网曝黑料 Music Department and Creative Writing Program, composers, writers and performers create genre-defying compositions that celebrate poetry, music and the singing voice. The performance will coincide with the 网曝黑料 Art Museum's exhibition "Bonds: Glass Bonds,鈥 which will present an array of objects manifesting the atomic bonds that constitute glass and the social bonds that glass enables. |
Fall 2022 |
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English Graduate Orientation All first-year creative writing graduate students are invited to attend an in-depth Q&A following the English Department's Graduate student orientation. Join us for food, social activities, and a welcome from Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. |
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Pedagogy Talks Open to graduate students and instructors, the meetings will be held in person and will be a space for both new and experienced instructors to discuss pedagogy as it pertains to creative writing. These talks will be facilitated by Ph.D. student, Jamey McDermott. |
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Coffee & Conversation Join Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, for a casual meetup. All creative writing
students are welcome as we discuss student writing life, upcoming events, programs,
student support, classes, and finding connections to our writing community. Topics
will include the new School of the Arts, field exams, and other news. Coffee/tea/pastries
will be served. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Bianca Stone *This Zoom event is exclusive to 网曝黑料-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students. Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections Someone Else鈥檚 Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, The M枚bius Strip Club of Grief, and most recently (Tin House, 2022). Stone鈥檚 poems, poetry comics, and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine and Brooklyn Rail. She teaches classes on poetry and consciousness in Vermont. |
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Literary Legacies: A Two-Day Film Screening Honoring John Gardner and Ruth Stone Ruth Stone screening: Saturday, October 15 from 12:00pm-3:00pm |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Sasha Stiles Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher
probing the intersection of text and technology in hybrid works including Technelegy (Eyewear Publishing, 2022). Stiles' hybrid poetry and artwork has been widely exhibited
in both analog and virtual realms and recognized by creative visionaries from Ray
Kurzweil to Judy Chicago. She has been invited to speak at TED, SXSW, Art Basel, Miami
Art Week, Parsons The New School, NFT.NYC, the Ai4 Summit, 网曝黑料 Art
Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, and elsewhere. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Kaveh Akbar is an award-winning Iranian-American poet and scholar. He is the author of poetry collections, Pilgrim Bell, and, Calling a Wolf a Wolf. |
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Pedagogy Talks Open to graduate students and instructors, the meetings will be held in person and will be a space for both new and experienced instructors to discuss pedagogy as it pertains to creative writing. These talks will be facilitated by Ph.D. student, Jamey McDermott. |
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Career Paths for Creative Minds There are many career paths to explore with undergraduate and graduate degrees in English literature. 网曝黑料 alumni will explore their career choices in academia, editing, and law. Panelists will include Jane Alberdeston, current lecturer and tenure track professor at the University of Puerto Rico (PhD, 2007) Jen DeGregorio, Associate Editor, Poets & Writers (PhD, 2021), and Tomer Inbar, poet, editor, and lawyer. They will discuss their choices, how they pursued their current careers, improved their employability, and maintained their writing lives while actively working. |
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Spring 2022 |
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Distinguished Writers Series Adrian Matejka's most recent collection of poetry is Somebody Else Sold the World. His other books are Map to the Stars, The Big Smoke, Mixology, and The Devil's Garden. He served as Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018-19 and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Melissa Febos is the author of the essay collections Girlhood and Abandon Me, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart. A craft book, Body Work, will be published by Catapult in March 2022.鈥 |
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Submitting Your Book-length Manuscript for Publication This talk will examine the process of submitting a book-length manuscript to a commercial press, to a small, literary or university press, or a nonprofit independent press. Join Distinguished Professor of English, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, in a discussion on the process of preparing a manuscript for submission to agents, book contests, and more. |
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Common Ground Reading Series |
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Word of Mouth: New Words, Voices, and Music In collaboration with the 网曝黑料 Music Department, the Creative Writing Program will present a semester-long project celebrating poetry, music, and the singing voice. Enjoy live musical performances and poetry readings by all-star teams of graduate/undergraduate students. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
Fall 2021 |
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Coffee & Conversation Join Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, each month for a casual meetup. All creative writing students are welcome as we discuss student writing life, upcoming events, programs, student support, classes, and finding connections to our writing community. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Edgar Kunz *This event is exclusive to 网曝黑料-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students. Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out, a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Andre Dubus III is the author of the novels Gone So Long, Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog, and the memoir, Townie. He lives with his family north of Boston. |
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Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00pm EDT Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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How to Query an Agent and Other Publishing Questions with Alexi Zentner *This event is exclusive to 网曝黑料-enrolled CW graduate students Join Professor Zentner for an hour long Q&A on the process of querying agents and submitting for publication, as well as other publishing topics. While this event is geared toward students writing prose, all creative writing graduate students are welcome to attend. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Ada Lim贸n is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Lim贸n is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Jake Skeets *This event is exclusive to 网曝黑料-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at Din茅 College. |
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Wednesday, November 17 at 7:00pm EST Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Hala Alyan *This event is exclusive to 网曝黑料-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the novel The Arsonists鈥 City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. |
Spring 2021 |
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| Friday, March 5th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
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Thursday, March 11th 7pm, Faculty Reading with Alexi Zentner, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing and creative writing student Heather Humphrey. Introduction by Jaimee Wriston Colbert. Zentner is the author of seven novels: Copperhead, The Lobster Kings, and Touch, and under the pseudonym Ezekiel Boone, he is the author of the internationally bestselling The Hatching trilogy (The Hatching, Skitter, and Zero Day), and The Mansion. A is available to view on the 网曝黑料 Center for Writers Facebook page. |
| Monday, March 15 5:30pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Thursday, March 18th 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). He is also the author of a collection of essays, The Book of Delights (Algonquin Books, 2019). A is available to view on the 网曝黑料 Center for Writers Facebook page. |
| Thursday, March 25th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Tuesday, April 6th 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, Cathy Park Hong is the author of a book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (One World/Random House), the poetry collections Engine Empire, Dance Dance Revolution (both from W.W. Norton), and Translating Mo鈥檜m (Hanging Loose Press). Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. A is available to view on the 网曝黑料 Center for Writers Facebook page. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies |
| Monday, April 19th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
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Tuesday, April 20th 7pm, 2020 网曝黑料 Book Awards Winners Reading with Monique Truong and Joe Jim茅nez: Joe Jim茅nez recieved the 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award for his collection Rattlesnake Allegory. He is also the author of the poetry collection The Possibilities of Mud and Bloodline, a young adult novel. Jim茅nez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jim茅nez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017-2020. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Monique Truong is a Vietnamese American novelist, essayist, librettist, and intellectual property attorney. Truong received the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her novel The Sweetest Fruits (Viking Books, 2019). She is also the author of the novels Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). A is available to view on the 网曝黑料 Center for Writers' Facebook page. |
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| Friday, April 23rd 7pm, The Spring Showcase is an annual gathering and celebration of 网曝黑料's artistic talent and will feature readings by the Creative Writing program's poets, novelists, and memoirists along with musical accompaniment. | |
| Thursday, April 29th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers. readers TBA. | |
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Tuesday, May 4th 7pm, Faculty Book Launch. Introduction by Alexi Zenter. Professor Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of the novel Vanishing Acts (Fomite) among two others. She is also the author of three short story collections, including Wild Things (BkMk Press). Originally from Hawaii, she has won the 2019 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Her fourth novel, How Not to Drown is forthcoming in May 2021 by Crooked Lane Books/Alcove Press. More about Jaimee Wriston Colbert. A is available to view on the 网曝黑料 Center for Writers' Facebook page. |
| Thursday, May 6th 5:30pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
Fall 2020 |
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| Thursday, September 3rd 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
| Tuesday, September 8th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Wednesday, September 23rd 1:30pm, reading and class visit with artist, poet, and writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Her most recent collection is Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton). Griffiths was selected as the 2020 Stella Adler Poet-in-Residence. |
| Tuesday September 29th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
| Thursday, October 8th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
| Thursday, October 8th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Tuesday October 13th, 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. |
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Thursday, October 15th 7pm, Faculty reading featuring Joe Weil and creative writing student Mercia Kandukira. Joe Weil鈥檚 latest books, published in 2020, are Helping the Village Idiot Feed the Chickens (Iniquity press/Vendetta books) and his new collection of poetry is called The Backwards Year (NYQ books). Joe Weil鈥檚 full bio. |
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Thursday, October 22nd 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, reading and conversation with poet Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon) which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. |
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Wednesday, October 28th 1:30pm, reading and class visit with poet Kimiko Hahn, author of Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton) and nine other books of poems. Hahn has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and many other honors. |
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Thursday November 5th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. |
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| Thursday, November 5th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Thursday, November 12th 6:30pm, Distinguished Writers Series, a reading featuring the poet and memoirist Carolyn Forch茅. Her most recent publications are the poetry collection, In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press), and her memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Books). |
| Monday, November 16th 7pm, The Global Imaginary is an international reading series focusing on translation and the exchange of language and ideas. | |
| Tuesday November 17th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Wednesday, November 18th 1:30pm, reading and class visit with writer Nick Flynn. He will be reading from Stay (ZE Books), his new collaborative book, and from his new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W.W. Norton). Nick Flynn鈥檚 full bio. |
Contact
Creative Writing press and event inquiries can be directed to Jen DeGregorio, Associate Director of Creative Writing: jdegreg1@binghamton.edu.