Tag: reading

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Miami University Press Poetry Reading by Distinguished Irish Poet & Editor Randolph Healy

    When? Thursday, November 14, 2024.6pm.  Register to attend the Zoom!  Miami University Press is proud to present a Zoom reading on Thursday, November 14th from 6-7:30PM EST by distinguished Irish poet and editor Randolph Healy, author of books including The Electron-Ghost Casino (Miami University Press, 2024) and Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt, 2002).  Healy will be introduced by recent Miami MFA graduate Sean Pierson, author of The…

  • 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…

  • Danton Remoto Book Launch

  • Rodrigo Toscano performs with MFA students

    Last semester, on Tuesday, November 6, acclaimed poet (and labor organizer by trade) Rodrigo Toscano, along with five Miami Creative Writing MFA students, performed for a full house in the Bachelor Hall reading room. (Pictures here.) Toscano has lived a double life, splitting his time between working in the labor movement and weaving his poetry.…

  • Peter Manson and cris cheek: a night of poetry

    On October 30th, the seats of Irvin 40 filled quickly with poetry enthusiasts, there to see the reading of cris cheek and Peter Manson, two writers hailing from across the pond. Manson is from Glasgow and is the author of a variety of works including a book-length translation titled Stéphane Mallarmé: The Poems in Verse…

  • First Annual Graduate Student Choice Reading Brings Alexandra Kleeman to MU

    “She was truly happy for the first time in her life, and it felt just like living in a small room painted all white…” So begins Alexandra Kleeman’s Jellyfish, the short story she read this past Thursday to a crowd of people in the Miami University Bookstore.

  • How Joseph-Beth’s and Jonathan Franzen Made Books Personal Again

    On Tuesday, January 26, 2009, a friend and I drove over an hour round trip in the Columbus snow, spinning out twice, to buy Franz Ferdinand’s third album, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, at a record store on its release date.

  • 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…