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  • End of year MFA workshop

    Last week, Creative Writing MFA grads met to wrap up the year in their Spring graduate poetry workshop! Here’s a pic to cherish the memories.

  • Congratulations to Professor TaraShea Nesbit for making New York Times Best Books of the last 25 years list!

    Congratulations to popular Creative Writing Professor TaraShea Nesbit, whose latest novel Beheld is on the New York Times’ list of the Best and Notable Books of the last nearly 25 years!

  • 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…

  • OxMag Open Mic

    Please join us next week for the first ever OxMag Open Mic! This event is a celebration of the release of our 52nd Issue and all of the wonderful writing being done at Miami. Come and enjoy some snacks, peruse the latest issue of OxMag, and listen to your fellow Miami writers. All are welcome— please share…

  • Miami University Press Novella Prize Winner

    Terrific reading from Miami University Press Novella Prize winner Ashley Honeysett, here signing the last book post-reading for Miami University Press Co-Editor, Professor Jody Bates.

  • Annual Publishing Symposium 2024

    Annual Publishing Symposium – April 15, 2024 at 5:30pm Please join us as we host three publishing professionals–Lisa Ampleman, the Cincinnati Review & Acre Books; Kayla Lightner, Ayesha Pande Literary; and Miami Alumnus Todd Seabrook, The Cupboard Pamphlet–who will answer questions about publishing your creative work, as well as careers in publishing.  Each year the Creative Writing Program brings in members of the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Hannah Emerson Poetry Reading

    About This Event Please join the Creative Writing Program in welcoming Hannah Emerson for a Zoom poetry reading on Wednesday, November 29 at 7:30pm. As Hannah is nonspeaking, her work will be read by current and former Miami students and by Aviv Rosenzweig. A Q&A with Hannah will follow, hosted by faculty poet Cathy Wagner. Hannah Emerson is a nonspeaking autistic poet…