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Spring Street MFA Reading Series

Harris Hall, 150

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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. 

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End of Year English Department Celebration

You’re invited! Please join us for the end of the school year this Wednesday, May 8 at 4PM in Armstrong (Fritz Pavilion C – 3rd floor)! 

We’ll celebrate the end of the year, bid farewell to seniors, and toast faculty and student achievements! Student orgs and pubs will be tabling and there will be yummy snacks!

OxMag Spring Street Readings – Spring 2024

Please join us in person or via zoom.

Thursday, February 15, 2024 – 8pm

Tuesday, Mar 12, 2024 – 7pm

Tuesday, Apr 9, 2024 – 7pm

Each month, Oxford Magazine hosts its Spring Street Reading Series featuring performances from Miami University’s Creative Writing MFA students.

They take place in the English Department’s Bachelor Hall Reading Room (BAC 337) and via Zoom. The zoom links for these and all other creative writing events are available on the English Department Events Calendar, as well as information about specific readers. We update the calendar with new events frequently, so check it out.

Dan Remoto Book Launch

We heard a short preview of Dan Remoto’s powerful writing during our successful annual charity event, Writers Harvest. Too short.

So please join the Creative Writing Program for a fiction reading with Dan Remoto, who will read from his new book, The Heart of Summer ( Penguin Random House Southeast Asia) at Miami on Thursday, February 22nd, 7:30pm in BAC 337. (Zoom attendees, please register here.)

Dan Remoto is a current MFA student at Miami. 

Dan Remoto’s new book, The Heart of Summer: Stories and Tales, is available for order here and published by Penguin Random House Southeast Asia. 
The book has been described as, 

“A collection of short fiction on love, longing and loss written in the realist and fantastic modes. A young boy and his sisters gather beautiful shells on the beach as mementos of a country they will leave behind.”

Danton Remoto has published a novel called Riverrun and a book of stories called The Heart of Summer with Penguin Random House Southeast Asia. He studied at Rutgers University and the University of Stirling in the UK. He is an MFA Poetry student at Miami University. 

Please join us for our Miami University Annual Writer’s Harvest reading and art auction for hunger. November 21, 2023

UPDATE: Writer’s Harvest benefit reading and art auction raised over a thousand dollars and still coming in for TOPSS, Talawanda Oxford Pantry and Social Services (TOPSS). It featured wonderful readings from Miami University MFA graduate students and was organized by the creative writing program students and faculty along with Western College. Creative writing director Brian Ascalon Roley hosted, with artist Billy Simms handling the art auction. While this event is held annually around Thanksgiving, TOPSS’s efforts are year round and it’s still not too late to donate on their website. Thanks to everyone.

Note: One of our Writers Harvest readers, Danton Remoto, is having a book launch here at Miami University (and also on Zoom) on Feb 22, 2024, so keep an eye out here and on our events list. More spring events will be added to the calendar soon. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

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Writer’s Harvest 2022

UPDATE: Writer’s Harvest benefit reading and art auction raised over a thousand dollars for TOPSS, Talawanda Oxford Pantry and Social Services (TOPSS). It featured readings from Miami University MFA graduate students and was organized by the English/CW program students and faculty along with Western College, hosted by creative writing director Brian Roley. Special thanks to K Anand-Gall and Billy Simms. While this event is held annually around Thanksgiving, TOPSS’s efforts are year round and it’s still not to late to donate on their website. Thanks to everyone.

Writer’s Harvest Nov 21, 2022 6pm, zoom
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