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The 2016 Spring Literary Festival welcomes author Kevin Prufer for a reading on Thursday, April 7, at 7:30 p.m., in Baker Ballroom, and for a lecture on Friday, April 8, at 11:00 a.m., in Alden 4. By Jacob Little Graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing: Nonfiction Kevin Prufer is an American poet of the spooky-sad […]

In the first grant announcement of its 50th anniversary year, the National Endowment for the Arts has awarded individual creative writing fellowships of $25,000 each to 37 fiction and creative nonfiction writers, including Alison Stine, a 2013 graduate of Ohio University’s Ph.D. program in Creative Writing. “I’m enormously grateful to @NEAarts for supporting […]

Author Dinty W. Moore, Professor of English at Ohio University, is having a lot of fun with his new book, Dear Mister Essay Writer Guy: Advice and Confessions on Writing, Love, and Cannibals. From drawing on napkins at Casa Nueva to explaining em dashes, Moore’s book, he writes on the […]

Creative Writing graduate student Micah McCrary wrote “Review of Sarah Manguso’s Ongoingness: The End of a Diary” in Brevity’s Nonfiction Blog. McCrary is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing program at Ohio University. I tried to keep my first diary during junior high, a diary which I began under […]

Maggie Messitt, an English doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program, was awarded the John Cady Fellowship for the 2015-16 school year. Her project—”Art(i)fact: An Atlas of my Search“—is the story of her aunt, a missing person, and the journey to find her. In 2009, my aunt, an artist, […]

The Visitors by Patrick O’Keeffe has been named to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2015 Shortlist. O’Keeffe is Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University, where he teaches creative writing fiction. Following a tremendous response to a call for submissions to the Kerry Group Irish Novel of […]

The 2015 Lit Fest welcomes poet Robert Pinsky. The fest is March 25-27. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after […]