Post Tagged with: "Creative Writing"

Come celebrate fall at the Art + Poetry + Prose the Fifth, on Friday, Oct. 11, on the third floor at Building 19 of The Ridges. This event is an ongoing collaborative effort between the graduate students of creative writing and fine arts. The art show begins at 6 p.m., […]

Visiting essayist Roxane Gay visits campus to read from her work on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Faculty Commons of Alden Library. Gay is part of the Writers in Residence series presented by the Creative Writing program. Gay’s writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Best American […]

Three current members of the Ohio University Creative Writing community saw their essays listed as Notable Essays in the latest edition of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays. Current Ph.D. candidate Kelly Sundberg was listed for her essay “Like Mourners’ Bread,” published in Slice; English and Creative Writing Post-Doc Alison Stine […]

The Creative Writing program presents Writers Harvest—a benefit for hunger relief—on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Proceeds from the $5 (suggested) admission benefit Southeastern Ohio Food Bank. A book signing and reception immediately follow the talks. This year, Writers Harvest, the nation’s largest reading […]

Congrats to Creative Writing alum David Armstrong ’02, ’11M, whose first book, a story collection called Going Anywhere, won the Leapfrog Press Fiction Contest and will be published in fall of 2014. He just started “seriously writing short stories” about two years ago, and in the last six months he’s […]

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]

Maybe I didn’t understand the details of how real magic worked, but it was pretty plain that it didn’t happen safe in bed. It was like everything else. If it were easy, everybody would do it. I panicked. I cocked back a fist and punched the bull right in the […]