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Robyn Schiff Wins 2024 Four Quartets Prize Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

A retreat opportunity for this September! Renewing creative energy: The Guanajuato Writing Retreat. More info:

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Visiting Lecturer Oksana Maksymchuk recently had a poem featured as poem of the week in The Guardian, alongside a review of her forthcoming collection!: https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/13/poem-of-the-week-rocket-in-the-room-by-oksana-maksymchuk?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3jSCiN53W5GUgcPZi7RVDCntggXvRcMQX8PkcmXMSu63VREpkVhb9Hmls_aem_AULOkDWqsCdu8rxDqiNuxEdB-FNO3E1p2x6xyF_YIIKBUpGbRpRq45PxszrTCZpifiq6hGSoxQgWT6MzYiDucIbM

Poem of the week: Rocket in the Room by Oksana Maksymchuk A child’s eye attempts to make sense of a military attack on a school – but fails to find any

Join us for tomorrow's Honors & Awards and Thursday's anthology launch!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: May 13, 2024 Robyn Schiff's Information Desk named Pulitzer Prize Finalist Congratulations to Program Director Robyn Schiff, whose book Information Desk was recently named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in poetry! Learn more here.

Tomorrow night!

In the Chicago Reader Arts & Culture column, take a captivating glance into Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn's new memoir, "Loose of Earth," from University of Texas Press. Then, join us this Friday, 5/10, at 6pm at the Co-op for a conversation with Kathleen and Dan Raeburn, followed by a Q&A and signing. You won't want to miss it: https://chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/kathleen-dorothy-blackburn-loose-of-earth/

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CRWR's Honors & Awards Reception and much more in this week's newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: May 6, 2024 Enroll now for CRWR during Summer Session Summer Session is excited to offer a remote version of CRWR 10206/30206 Beginning Fiction Workshop with Meghan Lamb next month! Learn more about the course and register here.

So many community events and job opportunities in this week's newsletter!: https://mailchi.mp/uchicago/creative-writing-poetics-newsletter-september-29-9436798

Celebrate our BA thesis writers this Friday, plus much more in this week's newsletter:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: April 22, 2024 Kathleen Blackburn pens New York Times op-ed CRWR's own Kathleen Blackburn has an essay about forever chemicals in the New York Times! Read the piece here, and mark your calendars for Kathleen's book launch event at the Seminary Co-op on May 10, where she'll be reading from her new memoir, Loos...

Creative Writing Awards submissions due today, plus a big batch of community events in this week's newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: April 15, 2024 Sianne Ngai and Robyn Schiff win Guggenheims Congratulations to Professor Sianne Ngai and CRWR Program Director Robyn Schiff for being awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships! See the full list of winners here.

Congratulations to English Language and Literature scholars Sianne Ngai and Robyn Schiff for being awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships! Learn more. >> https://lnkd.in/erccb9HK

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Join us and Professor Edgar Garcia for this event tonight!

Join us this Thursday, April 11th at 6pm CT for a conversation with Azad Ashim Sharma on "Boiled Owls." He will be joined in conversation by Edgar Garcia.

RSVP here: https://ow.ly/74g550QEjVt

April 15 College award deadlines and lots of community events in our latest newsletter:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: April 8, 2024 Submit Your Work for the 2024 Creative Writing Awards The Program in Creative Writing invites third- and fourth-year students in the College to submit work for several writing prizes, all with an April 15 deadline: the Margaret C. Annan Memorial Prize; David Blair McLaughlin Prizes; Olga and Pa...

Our Literary Arts Lab starts today! We'll see you in the Logan Center!

The Literary Arts Lab is this week! We'll see you there!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: April 1, 2024 Sign up for a Literary Arts Lab Craft Lunch UChicago students: sign up for an informal lunch with one of three amazing authors as part of our Literary Arts Lab later this week! These lunches will be capped, so please reserve a spot ASAP. Learn more and RSVP here.

Kathleen Blackburn as part of UChicago’s Careers in Humanities Week this week!

Submit to this year's CRWR Awards, plus the Literary Arts Lab is next week!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: March 25, 2024 Sign up for a Literary Arts Lab Craft Lunch UChicago students: sign up for an informal lunch with one of three amazing authors as part of our Literary Arts Lab next week! These lunches will be capped, so please reserve a spot ASAP. Learn more and RSVP here.

Spring CRWR courses with open seats, plus the countdown to our Spring Literary Arts Lab begins in this week's Creative Writing Newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: March 18, 2024 Many Creative Writing courses are still available for Spring Quarter! Add/drop is open now and many CRWR courses are still open to students from across the University with instructor approval. Select courses are listed below; additional details for these and other courses can be found on Course Se...

Join us this Thursday, 2/29 at 5pm CT for a conversation with Tracy Fuad on "Portal" from University of Chicago Press. She will be joined in conversation by Srikanth Reddy.

Presented in partnership with Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts and University of Chicago Creative Writing and Poetics

Find Details Here: https://www.semcoop.com/event/tracy-fuad-portal

Phoenix Poets New Voices in Poetry reading this Thursday, plus much more in this week's newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: February 26, 2024 Join poet-translator Oksana Maksymchuk and our student prize winners for a festive reading of literary translations from our judge, student winner, and finalists! Refreshments will be served.

Join us this Thursday, 2/22 at 5PM CT at Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts for a conversation with Kate Folk on "Out There" from Random House.

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New Voices in Fiction and more this week!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: February 19, 2024 Ever wonder what other careers in publishing you can have in addition to editing and writing? Join us for an info session at the UChicago Press office! Learn about their newly expanded internship program within various departments of publishing including, writing, editing, and production—but als...

New Voices in Nonfiction this Thursday, plus much more in this week's newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: February 12, 2024 Future Café is a student-organized series that provides the opportunity and space for undergraduates to collectively imagine utopian possibilities and long-term futures. UChicago College students, please join us for our next meeting to discuss the future of love over pizza, guacamole, and chips. Le...

The Offen Poetry reading this week, and so much more!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: February 5, 2024 Over the past year, REAL Youth Initiative has been studying the writings, interviews, and speeches of Martin Sostre—a revolutionary anarchist, anti-imperialist political prisoner, and jailhouse lawyer—with incarcerated young people in three Illinois juvenile prisons. This project has culminated...

Cocoa and Advising today, Offen Reading next week, and more in this week's newsletter:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: January 29, 2024 Join us for hot cocoa and an informational presentation about the Creative Writing Major and the Minor in English and Creative Writing. Students can learn about courses offered through Creative Writing and will have a chance to chat with Rachel Galvin, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Denise D...

Justin Torres on campus and student New Voices winners announced in today's newsletter!:

UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: January 22, 2024 Justin Torres won the National Book Award in November for his latest novel, Blackouts—and he's on campus this week! Find details about this afternoon's student lunch and tonight's reading in the events section below.

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UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: January 16, 2024 Eula Biss, whose honors include the National Book Critics Circle Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship, visits campus this week! Her most recent book is Having and Being Had. Find details about tonight's reading and tomorrow's student lunch in the events section below.

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UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: January 9, 2024 Ling Ma, who won the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Windham Campbell Prize, and the Story Prize for her most recent book—the short story collection Bliss Montage—visits campus this week! Find details about tonight's reading and tomorrow's student lunch in the events section below. 

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UChicago Creative Writing Newsletter: January 2, 2024 A number of creative writing courses still have open seats for Winter Quarter! The courses listed below are open to students from across the University with instructor approval. Full course descriptions are available here. If you would like to enroll, please email instructors to express your inter...

The Program in Creative Writing Newsletter: November 15, 2023 -

The Program in Creative Writing Newsletter: November 15, 2023 Are you a student who would like to learn how to introduce a visiting writer? We are announcing a mentorship! With this opportunity you will develop the skill of writing an introduction through thoughtful engagement with and careful analysis of the writer’s work. Starting Winter Quarter, you will ...

Join us this Friday at 6:00 PM CT for a conversation with Rachel DeWoskin on "absolute animals" (from University of Chicago Press). She will be joined in conversation by Ydalmi Noriega.

Presented in Partnership with Association of University Presses and University of Chicago Creative Writing and Poetics.

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