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Ohio University alum Madeline ffitch recently gave a reading at Reed College in Oregon, in addition to teaching a prose writing workshop at Stuart’s Opera House. She will also teach a course titled “Don’t Kill Your Darlings Yet: The Bold Art of Revision” at Hugo House in Seattle in spring […]

Nonfiction Ph.D. student Christine Adams’s poem “Ars Biologica“ has been chosen for inclusion in the Best New Poets 2018 anthology. Best New Poets is an annual anthology of fifty poems from emerging writers, currently distributed nationally as a University of Virginia Press title and produced in cooperation with Meridian, a semiannual literary magazine from the […]

  English Ph.D. fiction candidate Madeline ffitch published a nonfiction essay in the latest issue of Granta. The essay, “When We Fight, We Have Our Children With Us,” has been exceptionally well-received and widely shared on social media and elsewhere. Excerpt: “… Friends ask me about being a parent who […]

Graduate student Maggie Messitt published three essays recently. Messitt is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing non-fiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. An independent narrative and immersion journalist, she has spent the last decade reporting from inside under-served communities in southern Africa and middle America. Typically […]

Graduate student Madeline ffitch published a short story called “The Big Woman” in the winter issue of Tin House. ffitch is a doctoral student in the Creative Writing fiction program in the English Department at Ohio University. The Big Woman Marcus called out level and chalk line and finishing hammer, […]

  “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 […]