Talk With Screenwriter Alumni Judd Klinger
The 2025 McComb Conference: Love & Recovery
The Miami University Creative Writing Program is hosting the 2025 Marianne D. McComb Creative Writing Conference, with the theme this year of Love & Recovery, on Friday, April 25th at Harris Hall. Award-winning authors will present and lead generative writing workshops on nonfiction, fiction, and poetry. The conference keynote speaker is Leslie Jamison, New York Times best-selling author of Splinters: Another Kind of Love Story, her memoir. Register now. Conference schedule. Students and community members from across the university (and beyond!) are invited to participate,including students’ proposals to present a scholarly paper on a student panel or read creative work related to the theme (submit). This one day conference features writing sessions by authors Leslie Jamison, distinguished poet Felicia Zamora, and novelist Conner Bassett. Register by March 21st at 5 pm.
All registrants receive free swag and food throughout the conference day and a 1-day parking pass is available via registration. Free t-shirt for readers and presenters. See you then!
Poetry at Miami Event – Reading & Digital Exhibition
Friday, April 18th, 330p-5pm in King Cafe at King Library
Join us!
Join us for our Annual Publishing Symposium! — April 8th, 2025 6pm on zoom
Interested in publishing your novel, stories, essays, poems and hybrid work? Join us Tuesday, April 8 at 6:00 PM on Zoom to learn about trends in publishing.Ask our visiting pros your questions! See below for more info.Register in advance here
Serene Hakim, Literary Agent, Ayesha Pande Literary (See her manuscript wishlist here!)
Ander Monson, Editor, DIAGRAM
Lisa Fay Coutley, Chapbook Series Editor, Black Lawrence Press
Join Us! Alumna Author Reading with Memoirist Freda Epum – April 16th in the Harris Great Hall
Celebrate author, artist and alumna Freda Epum’s new memoirThe Gloomy Girl Variety Show
Wednesday, April 16 @ 7:30 The Great Hall, Harris Hall
Named one of The Chicago Review’s Most Anticipated Books of 2025!
In the luminous, formally inventive memoir THE GLOOMY GIRL VARIETY SHOW, Freda Epum interrogates ideas of home and safety as a Black woman with mental illness. Epum’s genius is her ability to weave lyric fragments, cultural and political criticism, and her own photographs and art into an incisive, cohesive constellation. This work, like her journey, is “both festering and healing”. I have been waiting for a book like this all my life. –Jami Nakamura Lin, author of The Night Parade
Where? In the Harris Hall Great Hall, 500 Harris Drive, Oxford, OH 45056
Mark your calendars! Freda Epum, a Miami alumna, will be reading from her recently released memoir, The Gloomy Girl Variety Show on April 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the Harris Great Hall. The book covers topics such as race, illness, and belonging. Epum will also answer questions about her creative process and experiences.
Freda received her MFA from Miami University and is currently a Presidential Fellow in the University of Cincinnati’s PhD program. She co-authored the Black American Tree Project and has received numerous awards and accolades, including recognition from the Ohio Humanities Council and the Ohio Arts Council.
Read more about Epum and her works on her website: http://www.fredaepum.com/about.html
Open Mike Poetry Reading at Howe
Spring Street MFA Reading Series
Harris Hall, 150
500 Harris Drive, Oxford OH 45056 #SpringStreet
The Spring Street Reading Series features graduate student writers from Miami University’s Creative Writing MFA program and is held monthly throughout the academic year. The following is the anticipated schedule and designated readers.
Fall Semester: Harris Hall (Room 150)
- October SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Oct. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Dominik Gebell, Maddie Portune, Tanushree Mukherjee, & Anna Richard
- WRITER’S HARVEST Annual Reading and Art Auction fundraising event for hunger (all proceeds go directly to our local food pantry TOPSS) (on ZOOM: Tuesday Nov. 19th @ 7-8 PM): Kyle Williams, James Foss, Emma Rowan, & Kayla Belser. On ZOOM: https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p
Spring Semester: Harris Hall (Room 150)
- February Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Feb. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Hossein Sobhani, CC Webb, Samantha Stahlhut, & Jordyn Damato
- March SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Mar. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Cody Tieman, Candace Renicks, Mary Newton, & Chris Bowyer
- April Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Apr. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Ross Kohler, Ria Adams, Ana Eliza de Melo Garcia, & Joshua Konecke
Writers Harvest – Annual Reading and Art Auction for Hunger Charity Event
Please join us on Zoom for a good cause!
When: Nov 19, 2024 7 PM via Zoom.
ALL proceeds go to our local food pantry, TOPPS.
You can donate on their website now! (Please designate Writers Harvest).
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p
Hosted by Director of Creative Writing Brian Ascalon Roley and Western Center artist Billy Simms, it features short readings from four excellent MFA students and an art auction
When: Nov 19, 2024 7 PM
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Miami University Press Poetry Reading by Distinguished Irish Poet & Editor Randolph Healy
When? Thursday, November 14, 2024.6pm.
Miami University Press is proud to present a Zoom reading on Thursday, November 14th from 6-7:30PM EST by distinguished Irish poet and editor Randolph Healy, author of books including The Electron-Ghost Casino (Miami University Press, 2024) and Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt, 2002).
Healy will be introduced by recent Miami MFA graduate Sean Pierson, author of The Perfect Season (Wild Honey Press, 2024).
Comprising forty-nine units, with a bespoke porch and optional exit through a bestiary, Randolph Healy’s The Electron-Ghost Casino has a décor ranging from the cerebral (all percentiles included) to the earthy. Notes of horror, intimacy, fractured histories, and joy echo from its chambers. Healy is the author of Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt 2002) and other books and chapbooks celebrated by readers throughout the Anglophone poetry world. This is his first American book publication. Are some of his tunes unfamiliar? Don’t worry, or do. We may be out of time, but there’s still space. Dance.
Continue readingAuthor Reading & Discussion with Pepper Stetler & Nicholas P. Money – Memoir, Disability Studies & Science Writing.
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Memoir, disability studies, & science writing– please join us for a nonfiction reading by Miami faculty, followed by a Q&A about the craft of creative nonfiction writing!
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Biology professor Nik Money and Art History professor Pepper Stetler will read and discuss their new nonfiction books Thursday, November 7 at 7:30 in Harris Hall 150.
Stetler’s new book, A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test, has been described as “an important and illuminating contribution to disability studies.” (Daisy Hernandez)
Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicines: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi, by Nicholas Money, showcases, with great humor and deftness, “An amazing tour of the world of fungi–a realm that is more entwined with the lives of humans than we realize.” (Alanna Collen)
Creative Writing faculty TaraShea Nesbit and Margaret Luongo will interview the authors after their readings, followed by a Q&A on the craft of nonfiction writing with the audience.
Hope to see you there!
More info:
https://events.miamioh.edu/event/author-reading-and-discussion-pepper-stetler-nicholas-money
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Author Bios
Pepper Stetler is a Professor of Art History at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and writes extensively on issues facing people with intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. She is the author of A Measure of Intelligence: One Mother’s Reckoning with the IQ Test (Diversion Books). Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Slate and other venues.
Nicholas Money is a Professor of Biology and Western Program Director at Miami University. He is an international expert on fungal biology and author of popular science books that celebrate the microbial world including The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization (Oxford University Press) and Molds, Mushrooms, and Medicine: Our Lifelong Relationship with Fungi (Princeton University Press). His writing is noted for blending first-rate science with stories of human interest. Learn more about Money and his works on his website, www.themycologist.com