Events and Readings
News
Spring Literary Festival 2012
This year's Spring Literary Festival is May 9th through the 11th and will feature writers Denise Duhamel, Terrance Hayes, Amy Hempel, Richard Rodriguez, and Susan Orlean. The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work, and books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program and at Little Professor Book Center. For more information, contact David Wanczyk, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at . read more >>
Joan Connor’s How to Stop Loving Someone wins the Leapfrog Press Award
Professor Joan Connor's most recent collection, How to Stop Loving Someone, won the Leapfrog Press award for adult fiction. A book signing with will be held at Little Professor on Wednesday, October 5th from 11 A.M. to 1 P.M. read more >>
Ohio University’s Creative Writing Program Ranked Third in the Nation
Ohio University’s Creative Writing Ph.D. program was ranked third in the nation for 2012 in the September issue of Poets and Writers, a nationally distributed literary and educational magazine. Read the full Compass story here. read more >>
Faculty Recognition at Spring Commencement
During the recent commencement ceremony, President McDavis bestowed the 2011 Distinguished Professor Award on our own creative writing professor, Mark Halliday. read more >>
Graduate Student Publications
CURRENT GRADS
Kathryn Nuernberger has won the Elixir Press Antivenom Award for her first book of poems, The Edge of Reason.
Jolynn Baldwin, PhD fiction candidate, winning story in National Public Radio’s Three-Minute Fiction contest, judged by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Cunningham. Read the full story here.
Damien Cowger, MA poetry, has a poem, “Alone, Together,” in the latest issue of Midwest Literary Magazine.
PhD Fiction candidate Joe Plicka has a story up at Bananafish.
RECENT GRADS
Holly Baker (MA 2010) essay “Unbraided” in Literary Mama.
Jaswinder Bolina (2010,PhD) poem selected by Kevin Young for Best American 2011. “Mine Is the First Rodeo, Mine Is the Last Accolade. “
Becca J. R. Lachman, an MA graduate (2007), has recently published nonfiction in the Sun and poetry in Tongue Screws and Testimonies: Poems, Stories, and Essays Inspired by The Martyrs Mirror (Herald Press).
Rachel Peckham, a recent PhD graduate (2009) has won the Robert Watson Poetry Award, sponsored by Spring Garden Press and storySouth. Her manuscript, Muck Fire, will be published next fall. Rachel is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University. read more >>
Regular Events
The Department of English hosts several readings and presentations that allow our creative writing faculty and students to present their work and to bring in outside writers and scholars to share their experiences.
The Spring Literary Festival
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The three-day festival is held in May on the Ohio University main campus in Athens, Ohio.
Writers in Residence
Each year, the department invites three esteemed writers to visit graduate and undergraduate classes, meet one-on-one with select students, and offer evening readings in the intimate Galbreath Chapel.
The Dogwood Bloom Reading Series
is a graduate-student run forum where second-year graduate students with a creative writing focus present their work to faculty and peers.
Writers' Harvest
Three renowned local writers read from their work yearly at a benefit hosted by Ohio University's Program in Creative Writing. The benefit is part of Writers' Harvest, the nation's largest reading series working to help fight hunger.
