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Spring Street MFA Reading Series
Harris Hall, 150 Add to calendar 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) Spring Semester: Harris Hall…
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Miami University Press Novella Prize Winner Reading
Ashley Honeysett Reading Tue, Apr 30, 2024 7:30am. Join us in person or on Zoom for a reading featuring Ashley Honeysett. Her debut novella, FICTIONS, won the 2023 Miami University Press Novella Prize. [Zoom link forthcoming] About FICTIONS: Simultaneously novella-in-stories, plague journal, memoir, and meditation on writing, Ashley Honeysett’s FICTIONS illuminates and explores the mind…
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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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Madman by Tracy Groot Review & Recommendation
By: Alayna Cowden As a person who, admittedly, shies away from things labeled “historical fiction” and worse, “Christian fiction,” I can’t deny that I felt a little apprehensive in starting this book. Would it be corny and preachy? Would Jesus be portrayed in a way that isn’t accurate or seems pushy? Hence, it took me…
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Great chemistry: Creative Writing collaborates across disciplines
Hurray for successful collaboration across disciplines! Check out this wonderful book of short stories, or “fictional essays,” written by chemistry capstone students to help them think about ethical dilemmas in science. As the preface by Prof. Heeyoung Tai says, imaginative writing enabled students to “see the future—not just the benefits that scientific advances would bring,…
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Miami CW’s First Event of 2016: Darrin Doyle
This past Monday evening, the Creative Writing Program kicked off this semester’s reading series with author Darrin Doyle. His most recent book, titled The Dark Will End the Dark (published in February 2015), is a collection of short stories that explore the human body and reason. Miami University professor Dr. Joseph Bates introduced Doyle; the two…
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MU Press Novella Winner Lawrence Coates to Visit Miami
Lawrence Coates is the author of Camp Olvido, the winner of the Miami University Press 2015 Novella Prize. He is currently a professor of creative writing at Bowling Green State University. MU Press intern and senior Creative Writing major Annabel Brooks recently chatted on the phone with Coates to learn more about his novella and…