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Creative Writers Noted in ‘Best American Essays 2018’ Anthology

Creative Writers Noted in ‘Best American Essays 2018’ Anthology

Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays 2018, the latest in an annual series of anthologies marking the finest nonfiction essays published over the previous year, lists three Ohio University faculty and one current Ph.D. candidate in the Notable Essays section. Fiction Ph.D. candidate Lizzie Tran is noted for her essay “Miss […]

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September 21, 2018 at 7:44 pmResearch

Moore Co-edits New Book, ‘Flash Nonfiction Funny’

Moore Co-edits New Book, ‘Flash Nonfiction Funny’

Dinty W. Moore, along with Tom Hazuka, has co-edited a new book, Flash Nonfiction Funny: 71 Very Humorous, Very True, Very Short Stories (Woodhall Press). The book features concise essays, all consisting of 750 words or less, that are sure to delight and entertain readers. “It is hard to say […]

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August 30, 2018 at 8:13 amFaculty in the News News

Alumni News | Sundberg Publishes Debut Memoir to Rave Reviews

Dr. Kelly Sundberg, author of 'Goodbye, Sweet Girl'

Dr. Kelly Sundberg, a 2018 graduate of OHIO’s Creative Writing Program, published her debut memoir, Goodbye, Sweet Girl, with HarperCollins press. She earned a Ph.D. in English from the College of Arts & Sciences at Ohio University. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor in the English Department at Ohio […]

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June 29, 2018 at 2:21 pmAlumni

Alumni News | Messitt Hired as National Director of Report for America

Maggie Messitt

by Dinty W. Moore Dr. Maggie Messitt ’17, a graduate of the English Ph.D. program in Creative Writing, was named national director of Report for America, an initiative of the GroundTruth Project. Report for America is a newly launched national service program deploying outstanding emerging and established journalists into newsrooms around […]

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May 8, 2018 at 2:18 pmAlumni

Columnist Cites Moore’s ‘Mindful Writer’ as Favorite Book

Dinty W. Moore

Waterloo (Canada) Chronicle columnist Marshall Ward cites a favorite book by Dinty W. Moore in a column headlined “Natural curiosity the biggest attribute of a successful writer.” Moore is Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Ohio University. My favourite book on writing is The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths […]

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April 4, 2018 at 10:51 amFaculty in the News In the News

Lit Fest | Spring Literary Festival 2018, April 11-13

Lit Fest | Spring Literary Festival 2018, April 11-13

The Ohio University Creative Writing program presents five visiting writers for the 33rd annual Spring Literary Festival, April 11, 12, and 13. This year’s program will feature fiction writer Mary Gaitskill, nonfiction writers Geoff Dyer and Aisha Sabatini Sloan, and poets Alan Shapiro and Rosanna Warren. All readings and lectures […]

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April 1, 2018 at 9:00 pmEvents

Brevity Magazine Now Translated into Chinese

Dinty W. Moore

  Brevity magazine is now available to Chinese readers thanks to a translation project undertaken by Tong Tong, a graduate student at Boston College, and Yumeng Yao, an M.A. student at University College London. The literary translation team is posting essays from Brevity‘s 20th Anniversary issue two-at-a-time, using the Chinese social media […]

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November 27, 2017 at 12:03 pmNews