The first day of the Miami University Creative Writing program’s Annual Publishing Symposium featured a panel with an editor, agent and author.
Publishing Symposium Panel
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Faculty Reading Lizzie Hutton
2022 McComb Conference Reading Series in YA Literature
Miami University’s Creative Writing program regularly hosts this popular reading series in YA Literature, bringing in prominent and interesting authors in the genre.
Creative Writing Faculty Reading
The Creative Writing Program’s Annual Publishing Symposium
In addition to the panel discussion, students met with agents and editors at the creative writing program’s annual publishing symposium
Faculty and Miami University Press Readings
Two writers read from their poetry, MU Press poet Kathleen Peirce and Miami University Creative Writing Professor, Brian Ascalon Roley.
Kathleen Peirce’s awards include The AWP Award, The Iowa Prize, and the William Carlos Williams Award as well as Fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation and the Whiting Foundation. She teaches in the MFA program at Texas State University. She reads from Lion’s Paw (Miami University Press 2021). www.kathleenpeirce.com
Brian Ascalon Roley reads from his chapbook Ambuscade (2021), which won the Finishing Line Press Open Competition from 350 manuscripts. His distinctions include fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Djerassi Foundation, Cornell University and the University of Cambridge, among others. www.brianroley.com
McComb Series in Creative Writing 2021
David Ebenbach’s craft talk, “Writing About/From Mental Illness” is tomorrow at 4! Join us in the first event of the semester as part of the Marianne D McComb Series in Creative Writing. Register in advance: https://bit.ly/2Q7Blx8
Alum Hannah Abigail Clarke reads from her novel The Scapegracers
Third Annual Publishing Symposium
join us tomorrow at 4pm for our virtual publishing symposium with OSU Press editor Kristen Elias Rowley and Belladonna* founder Rachel Levitsky!
2020 Publishing Symposium
Want to publish your work? Learn about the publishing industry? Join us for a Q&A with industry professionals Rachel Levitsky, Publisher of Belladonna* and Kristen Elias Rowley, Editor-in-Chief of The Ohio State University Press.
Rachel Levitsky is the author of Under the Sun (Futurepoem), NEIGHBOR (UDP) the poetic novella, The Story of My Accident is Ours (Futurepoem) and most recently Against Travel/Anti-Voyage, a bilingual French/English text. More than twenty years ago, she founded the Belladonna* Collaborative which is committed to publishing and building literary community among women-identified and LGBTQIA+ authors who write off-center, producing work that is political and critical.
Kristen Elias Rowley is Editor in Chief at The Ohio State University Press where she launched the Mad Creek Books imprint in 2017. An editor since 2006, she was an acquisitions editor at the University of Nebraska Press, and her authors’ books have won numerous awards including the Lambda Literary Awards, the Grub Street Prize, an International Latino Book award, and a Jewish Journal Book Prize.
This event is presented by the Miami University Creative Writing Program and the Center for Career Exploration & Success