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Spring Street MFA Reading Series

Harris Hall, 150

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)

October SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Oct. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Dominik Gebell, Maddie Portune, Tanushree Mukherjee, & Anna Richard
WRITER’S HARVEST Annual Reading and Art Auction fundraising event for hunger (all proceeds go directly to our local food pantry TOPSS) (on ZOOM: Tuesday Nov. 19th @ 7-8 PM): Kyle Williams, James Foss, Emma Rowan, & Kayla Belser. On ZOOM: https://miamioh.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAvc-6vqjoiH9QNvM1EzRPMFnwNKn-FcZ5p

Spring Semester: Harris Hall (Room 150)

February Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Feb. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Hossein Sobhani, CC Webb, Samantha Stahlhut, & Jordyn Damato
March SpringStreet Reading (Tuesday Mar. 11th @ 7:15 PM): Cody Tieman, Candace Renicks, Mary Newton, & Chris Bowyer
April Spring Street Reading (Tuesday Apr. 15th @ 7:15 PM): Ross Kohler, Ria Adams, Ana Eliza de Melo Garcia, & Joshua Konecke

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 Perfect Season (Wild Honey Press, 2024).

Comprising forty-nine units, with a bespoke porch and optional exit through a bestiary, Randolph Healy’s The Electron-Ghost Casino has a décor ranging from the cerebral (all percentiles included) to the earthy. Notes of horror, intimacy, fractured histories, and joy echo from its chambers. Healy is the author of Green 532: Selected Poems 1983-2000 (Salt 2002) and other books and chapbooks celebrated by readers throughout the Anglophone poetry world. This is his first American book publication. Are some of his tunes unfamiliar? Don’t worry, or do. We may be out of time, but there’s still space. Dance.

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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 follow.

Patrick Briggs is the CEO of Semify, a white-label digital marketing service provider. Prior to joining Semify, Patrick was an entrepreneurial leader for startups and technology companies in Silicon Valley and New York City. Over the last fourteen years, Patrick has driven nine-figure revenue growth by leading marketing, sales, product positioning, cost optimizations, and strategic development in consumer-packaged goods businesses, customization and promotional printing businesses, business-to-business technology and software businesses, and business-to-business and business-to-consumer insurance products. Patrick holds an MBA from Columbia Business School, a BA in English: Creative Writing with a minor in Anthropology from Miami University, and the Boy Scouts of America rank of Eagle Scout.

This event is sponsored in part by the Department of English, the Center for Career Services and Success, and the Marilyn Gustche Lectureship Fund.

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Rita Dove Alumni Event for National Poetry Month

Join us for a special event with Rita Dove, Miami University creative writing alumna, Pulitzer Prize winner and National Poet Laureate Emeritus

Alumna poet Rita Dove will join us virtually for a reading and conversation including creative writing poetry faculty in the Heritage Room, Shriver Center. You can check out a recent Paris Review Interview of the US Poet Laureate Emeritus and Pulitzer Prize winner in which she speaks about her time at Miami and its influence on her.

You can find our Alumni testimonials page here.

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 of a storyteller wrestling with the essential strangeness of writing fiction at a time when a common story has eluded us all. A box of finely made enchantments. – Hugh Sheehy, author of DESIGN FLAWS

About the Author:

Ashley Honeysett has lived throughout the United States as well as in Ireland and Japan and is now raising a child with her husband outside of Chicago, where she works as a fundraiser for environmental nonprofits. She studied creative writing at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and published poetry and prose in journals there and at Michigan State University.

Danton Remoto Book Launch

Fall 2022 Creative Writing Reading Series & Events

Welcome, please join us in person or by Zoom!

We have a great list of visiting writers and events this semester.

Here is the link to register to attend Writer’s Harvest benefit for hunger on Nov 21 at 6pm: Register to attend virtually on Zoom. This, our final event of Fall, is an annual benefit for hunger done in coordination between the creative writing program, Western College, and TOP S S, a local non-profit and pantry. There will be several short readings by local writers and an art auction moderated by Billy Simms.

-Brian Ascalon Roley

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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 have been friends since they were in graduate school at University of Cincinnati together. Continue reading →

Miami Alumni Return for National Poetry Day

Sitting in the audience of the Alumni Poets Reading this past Thursday evening, I had the honor of listening to two very different poets read their original works. Listening to a poet read their own work is a wonderful way to begin to understand their writing – the movement is particular, and the exquisiteness of images, metaphors, and chosen words is communicated best by their creator.

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Department Events This Year

The Department is very excited to be hosting so many distinguished guests and speakers! This lovely poster lists all of the events during the year that the Creative Writing Department at Miami hosts, the next event being Chris Bachelder, author of U.S.! and Bear v. Shark, tonight at 7:30 in the MU Bookstore. You may want to get there a bit early, because it’s sure to be a full house.