Announcements

Admission Applications

The deadline for applying to the Creative Writing Certificate Program was March 1.  We are no longer accepting applications at this time.  The next application window is September 1 - October 1, 2024.

Creative Writing Certificate Program End-of-Semester Reception and Readings

Please join us on Wednesday, May 1, in the Joynes Reading Room (Carothers Residence Hall) for our end-of-semester celebration.

Reception begins at 12:30pm with food and refreshments.

Writing Awards and Readings begin at 1:00pm

Creative Writing Honors Thesis Readings begin at 2:00pm.

Please feel free to come to all or part of the program.  Family and friends are welcome!

 

Writing Contest Winners Announced

Congratulations to the Winners of the Kruger Fellowships and Parker Prizes for student writing. 

KRUGER Fiction 

1st Place    Lara Palmqvist - "In Another Life"

Runner-up  Stephanie Degnore - "Where the Light Shines Brightest"

Runner-up  Varun Jawarani - "Lakshana"

KRUGER Poetry 

1st Place    Aguilar Alfredo - "After Three Beers My Tia Talks About The Border"

Runner-up  Safiyya Haider - "Assimilation Is Performance Art" 

PARKER Fiction

1st Place     Molly Tompkins - "Bolt from the Blue"

Runner-up   Charlie Sharpe - "A Horse of Course” 

Runner-up   Ashley Rummel - "The Artists" 

PARKER Poetry

1st Place     Leah Piñon - "The World Ends Through the Mirrors in Your House"

Runner-up   Boppana Pradhitha - "Alternate Methods of Crying"

PARKER Lit Crit

1st Place     Molly Tompkins - "Celestial, Beautiful, and Social Bodies" 

Runner-up   Lane Dent - “Our False Perception of Nature”,

 

Congratulations to all the contest winners and honors thesis students! 

 

 

 

 

 

Ongoing Opportunities

Check back often for more links to publishing, contest, and internship opportunities.