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2025 Annual Publishing Symposium
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…
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Author Reading & Discussion with Pepper Stetler & Nicholas P. Money – Memoir, Disability Studies & Science Writing.
* 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! * 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…
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Alumni Event: Life After College with an English Degree – A Gustche Lecture with Patrick Briggs
Please join us Join us in welcoming creative writing alumnus and tech CEO Patrick Briggs ’06, who will be giving a talk about how an English degree can bring career success! The lecture will be held in Harris Hall (500 Harris Drive) on Thursday, October 24th at 4:30 PM in room 111A. A reception will…
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English Department Career Day Event
A Career Day for English Majors including creative writing majors Join the Department of English and the Center for Career Exploration and Success (CCES) for Spill the Tea: English Edition, an afternoon of career-development workshops followed by an alumni panel, on Tuesday, April 9 in Shriver’s Heritage Room. There will be prizes, swag, and delicious…
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The MFA Experience
UPDATE: We had a great event. Special thanks to all our alumni guests who shared their experiences and advice, and those of you who joined us. We had great feedback and questions in the chat. Current MFA student Ty Young was asked at the last minute to help with the technical aspects of the event…
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Interview with CCA Agent and Miami Alumna, Alex Rice
On March 3rd, 2023, Creative Artist Agency Agent Alex Rice (and Miami alumna) joined the creative writing program’s Annual Publishing Symposium for a panel discussion on the publishing environment, and tips for students looking to get published or find a career in publishing. It was a fantastic event with many students turning out. I was…
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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Three, Margaret Luongo
To finish out this series, I interviewed Margaret Luongo, Director of Creative Writing, Associate Professor of English, and advisor for my apprenticeship with the CW program. Since my first (and regrettably, only) class with her, I have experienced just how wise and kind she is and I am very glad I got to work more…
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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,…
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Art that Defies Expectations — an Interview with Kate Rowekamp
By: Erin Adelman We have all likely experienced the feeling to some extent: your life is moving at a pace out of sync with your peers, you are behind, you might not reach the next milestone that is expected of you.
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Meet Your Professors! — Interview Two, Patrick Murphy
Last semester, back when things were strange in the way we call “normal,” I was thrilled to be in the course ENG 360B: Comics in Theory and In Practice, co-taught by professors Jody Bates and Patrick Murphy. I had tried making comics before but always stopped short of completing them, but this class gave me…