Each year, publishing professionals visit us to give tips about the publishing world to the larger Miami University Creative Writing community and also meet with second year MFA students. This year our visitors included four alumni successful in the publishing world, on Friday’s panel of the two day event.
The first day of the Miami University Creative Writing program’s Annual Publishing Symposium featured a panel with an editor, agent and author.
Miami University’s Creative Writing program regularly hosts this popular reading series in YA Literature, bringing in prominent and interesting authors in the genre.
In addition to the panel discussion, students met with agents and editors at the creative writing program’s annual publishing symposium
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
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
join us tomorrow at 4pm for our virtual publishing symposium with OSU Press editor Kristen Elias Rowley and Belladonna* founder Rachel Levitsky!
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 closely with her as part of my apprenticeship, especially now that it is coming to close along with the rest of my college career. I’m very thankful that I have been able to work with Prof. Luongo over this past year, and I hope you all enjoy learning a bit more about her!
-Lauren Miles