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Graduate Awards AWARD Student Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing One or more Pearl Hogrefe Grants in Creative Writing will be awarded during the spring semester to graduate students who show extraordinary promise in creative writing. These awards are open to all graduate students at Iowa State and will be given on the basis of … Continue reading Spring 2021 Graduate and Undergraduate Student Award Winners
Our readers this month will be Julia Bilek, Jordan Dunn, Emily Golden, and A’Ja Lyons. We hope you will be able to join us in hearing their wonderful work! If you have joined us for previous Emerging Writers readings, you will notice that this differs from past events, which were held on Thursdays. This semester, … Continue reading Emerging Writers Reading Series for March
Please join us for the Writing and Media Center’s second virtual Featured Author Series Event, “Allison Boyd Justus: An Afternoon of Poetry” on Friday April 9, 2-3pm. Allison Boyd Justus is a Graduate Communication Consultant at the WMC, graduating with her MFA in Creative Writing and Environment in May 2021. Her MFA thesis, the poetry … Continue reading Allison Boyd Justus: An Afternoon of Poetry
Please join us for the Writing and Media Center’s Featured Author Series Spring 2021 events. The first event is a “Non-Fiction Publishing Panel” featuring Ed Lyon, Dara T. Mathis, and Katharine A. Burnett. Register to attend at https://tinyurl.com/nonfictionpublishing.
Join the Writing and Media Center in this three-part-series connecting up-and-coming writers with published authors from across the disciplines.
I hope everyone is staying warm! We will be holding THREE virtual readings this spring, with the first happening this coming Tuesday, February 23 at 7:00 PM. Our readers this month will be Ginnia Kovach and Allison Boyd Justus. We hope you will be able to join us in hearing their wonderful work! If you … Continue reading Emerging Writer Reading Series for February
Saturday’s Child Press has chosen Christiana Langenberg’s story “Maybe It’s a Wednesday” as the $1,000 1st place winner of its Fiction Contest. The editor stated, “This is a beautiful story: poignant, nuanced and lyrical.” Publication date TBA.
Rachel Mans McKenny and Denise Williams are speaking at a student-centered event on October 30th (via Webex) on the process of publishing a novel — just in time for National Novel Writing Month! Join the Writing and Media Center on October 30th for an exciting event with debut authors and ISU staff members Denise Williams … Continue reading Rachel Mans McKenny & Denise Williams present “I Wrote the Novel. Now What?”