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Claire Bateman is ‘The Most Exciting Talent in the USA of Poetry’: Mark Halliday

Claire Bateman

On Thursday, Nov. 3, the Ohio University Creative Writing Program hosts Visiting Poet Claire Bateman, for a reading at 7:30 p.m., at Galbreath Chapel.* By Morgan Cappel, intern for the Office of Special Programs The poet Claire Bateman’s most recent collection of poetry, Scape, is enamored of the world. For her, […]

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November 1, 2016 at 3:13 pmNews

Raising the Curtain on the Past: The Essays of Dinah Lenney

Dinah Lenney; Photo by Daniel Reichert

Dinah Lenney is the author of Bigger than Life and The Object Parade. She serves as the senior editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and her work has appeared in numerous publications, including Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and The New York Times Sunday Magazine. Lenney will give a reading […]

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October 26, 2016 at 10:19 amNews

Tran Wins Prairie Schooner Nonfiction Contest for Essay, ‘Miss Saigon’

Elizabeth Tran, doctoral student in creative writing

by Kristin M. Distel Elizabeth Tran, a doctoral student in creative writing at Ohio University, has won Prairie Schooner’s 2016 Summer Nonfiction Contest for her essay “Miss Saigon.” Tran’s essay discusses her mother’s experience of escaping the Vietnam War, as well as Tran’s personal and familial experience of surviving Hurricane […]

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October 21, 2016 at 9:18 amIn Class News

Writers Harvest | The Poetry of Kathryn Nuernberger, Sept. 22

Writers Harvest | The Poetry of Kathryn Nuernberger, Sept. 22

The 2016 Writers Harvest welcomes poet Kathryn Nuernberger, along with writers Gwen E. Kirby, Dinty W. Moore, and David Sanders, for a reading on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Walter Hall Rotunda; $5 suggested donation. By Morgan Cappel, intern for the Office of Special Programs Here, she offers an overview of […]

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September 1, 2016 at 6:45 pmAlumni Events

Writers Harvest | The Poetry of David Sanders, Sept. 22

David Sanders

The 2016 Writers Harvest welcomes poet David Sanders, along with writers Gwen E. Kirby, Dinty W. Moore, and Kathryn Nuernberger, for a reading on Thursday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m., in the Walter Hall Rotunda; $5 suggested donation. By Morgan Cappel, intern for the Office of Special Programs Here, she offers an overview of […]

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September 1, 2016 at 6:45 pmEvents

OHIO Creative Writing Director to Participate in TWP Science and Religion Program

Dinty W. Moore

Ohio University professor and Director of Creative Writing Dinty W. Moore will serve as one of five writing mentors in a national program designed to explore the intersection of science and religion. Fifteen fellows chosen for the Think Write Publish (TWP) Fellows in Science and Religion project from a pool […]

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August 24, 2016 at 8:53 amNews

Graduate Publishes Debut Novel, Grapples with Legacy of Apartheid

Michelle Pretorius, creative writing doctoral student

By Kristin M. Distel Michelle Pretorius, doctoral student in creative writing, recently published her debut novel, The Monster’s Daughter. The novel—nearly a tome at 464 pages—was released July 19 by Melville House and Audible. Pretorius also published an essay, “Using the Lies of Fiction to Get to the Truth of […]

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August 4, 2016 at 11:16 amResearch