Post Tagged with: "Creative Writing"

The 2016 Spring Literary Festival welcomes author Stuart Dybek for a reading on Wednesday, April 6, at 8:30 p.m., in Baker Theater, and for a lecture on Friday, April 8, at noon, in Baker Ballroom. By E.M. Tran Graduate student pursuing a Ph.D. in Fiction Stuart Dybek’s dreamlike and ethereal, sharp and playful fiction includes […]

Dr. Eric LeMay published a new book, In Praise of Nothing: Essays, Memoir, and Experiments. Why do we play the lottery when we know we’ll lose? How does what we laugh at tell us who we are? What happens when, through some misstep or mishap, we lose ourselves and become […]

The Ohio University Creative Writing program presents fiction writer, poet, and essayist Mark Brazaitis in a reading Thursday, Jan. 30,at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Brazaitis is the author of five books of fiction: The River of Lost Voices: Stories from Guatemala, winner of the 1998 Iowa Short Fiction […]

Curiosity is essential for an artist, for a writer, says Professor Dinty W. Moore, whose book the Accidental Buddhist was the result of his curiosity about Buddhism in America. Moore teaches “Creative Nonfiction” at Ohio University. The “creative” part of that equation involves not just curiosity, but also discovery. The […]

The South African blog I Love Books reviewed Dr. Zakes Mda’s book The Sculptors of Mapungubwe on Oct. 15. Mda is a Professor in Ohio University’s Creative Writing: Fiction program in the College of Arts & Sciences Department of English. The narrative centres on the timeless kingdom of Mapungubwe where […]

Measure two faculty from the College of Fine Arts, add one from English. Stir well. Bake lovingly by another English faculty. Enjoy. The baker is Dr. Eric LeMay, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing: Nonfiction, who is Web Editor with Alimentum: The Literature of Food. LeMay also is involved in the […]

The Dogwood Bloom Reading Series kicks off this Friday, Oct. 4,  at 6:30 p.m. in the Faculty Commons, third floor, Alden Library. Fiction writer Christina Jones and essayist Maggie Messitt are our featured readers. “Come on out and show your support!” says Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing at […]