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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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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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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…
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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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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…
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Selvage, Diaspora, and Lingual Processes: a Conversation with Hoa Nguyen
National Poetry Month 2020 By: Savannah Trent I sat down, well more accurately sat down and logged into google chat, to talk to poet Hoa Nguyen to ask her about identity, belonging, and the diasporic experience. Nguyen, whose 2016 book length collection of poems Violet Energy Ingots was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin prize in…
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Meet Your Professors! Interview One — cris cheek
National Poetry Month 2020 At the start of this semester, I wanted to begin a series of interviews with professors; I believe our faculty are what make the entire Miami English department special and I hoped to use the platform to showcase that. Now that so much has changed as a result of the pandemic,…