Category: Events

  • 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

  • The Importance and Impact of Research on Fictional and Historical Fiction Works

    By: Marin Thurmer Back in November, I was pleased to meet one of Dr. TaraShae Nesbitt’s colleagues from graduate school, Dr. Shena McAuliffe, who currently teaches fiction at Union College in New York and visited Miami university classes and did a reading. Being a creative writing undergrad myself, along with other peers sitting around me,…

  • 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…

  • Student Spotlight: The Art of Codex (Nick Felaris)

    This week, instead of a virtual student reading, we have more of a student spotlight: an introduction to the art of Nick Felaris. Nick (aka Codex) has created a video showcasing his art and animations.

  • Virtual Student Reading — “Annabel Lee” read by Cosette Gunther

    National Poetry Month 2020 To kick off this week, we have another virtual student reading! Today, Cosette Gunther (a first year and member of the editorial staff for inklings) is reading a favorite poem of hers — “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe — and discusses a little bit about why she loves Poe’s poetry.

  • “The Time to Play among the Borders of the Possible is a Gift:” An Interview with cris cheek

    National Poetry Month 2020 cris cheek is a documentary performance writer, sound composer, and photographer. They worked alongside Bob Cobbing and Bill Griffiths with the Consortium of London Presses in the mid 1970’s to run a thriving open access print shop for little press poets. In 1981 they co-founded a collective movement-based performance resource in…

  • Virtual Student Reading: 19 by Madi McGirr

    National Poetry Month 2020 Here is the first in a series of student creative writing readings. Sophomore Madi McGirr reads her poem “19” which is after the poem “21” by Patrick Roche. You can read this poem as well as other poems and art by Madi in this year’s forthcoming issue of the Femellectual.

  • Appreciation: Rae Armantrout’s “Bardos,” by Trevor Root

    National Poetry Month 2020 Rae Armantrout, a San Diego native famous for her terse, funny, brainy poems, visited Miami to read from her poems last April. Thanks to generous funding from the Clark Capstone Fund, Armantrout was in Oxford for several days to visit classes and meet with students for individual conferences. Author of over…

  • Creative Writing Alum and Faculty Reading

    Two incredible authors w/ Miami U connections are talking about their new books TODAY! Join us for a Q&A hosted by @tsnesbit featuring alumna @megiddings and professor Cathy Wagner!! https://facebook.com/MiamiOHCreativeWriting/