Post Tagged with: "Creative Writing"

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

Visiting Author | Writer-Actor Dinah Lenney, Oct. 27

Dinah Lenney; Photo by Daniel Reichert

On Thursday, Oct. 27, the Ohio University Creative Writing program hosts Visiting Nonfiction Writer Dinah Lenney for a reading at Walter Hall Rotunda (7:30 p.m.). A reception will follow the event, which is free and open to the public. Watch live or later on A&S TV. Lenney is the author […]

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October 1, 2016 at 5:30 pmEvents

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

Alum Combats Cybersexism, ‘Rhetoric of Misogyny’

Bailey Poland, OHIO alumna and author of 'Haters'

by Kristin M. Distel Bailey Poland, an ’11 Ohio University alumna in creative writing, has published her first book, Haters: Harassment, Abuse, and Violence Online, with Potomac Press. Cybersexism, stalking, and online bullying and harassment have long captured Poland’s attention and served in part as an impetus for writing Haters. […]

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August 31, 2016 at 3:43 pmAlumni News