Creative Writing Program

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Professor LeAnne Howe cited as "one of Native America’s greatest writers and theorists"
Book on Professor LeAnne Howe Receives Rave Reviews from Top Journals  Conversations with LeAnne Howe, edited by Kirstin L. Squint for the University of Mississippi Press's Literary Conversations Series, has received strong reviews from important journals in the field of native american and Indigenous studies. The book has now been reviewed in two top journals in the field such as The American Indian Quarterly and Native American and Indigenous…

Nathan Dixon Wins Thirteenth Annual Short Fiction Prize
Nathan Dixon of the Creative Writing Program has been selected as the winner of the annual BOA Short Fiction Prize. Read more about this exciting news from BOA Editions, Ltd. below:   Rochester, New York—BOA Editions, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Nathan Dixon of Durham, North Carolina is the winner of the thirteenth annual BOA Short Fiction Prize for his collection Radical Red. BOA Publisher and Executive Director Peter Conners selected the…
Christina Wood
Christina Wood Receives Writer of Note Grant
UGA Creative Writing Program Ph.D. candidate Christina Wood has received a Writer of Note grant from the deGroot Foundation in support of her novel-in-progress, Escapes. Set in the mid-coastal town of Cambria, California, Escapes follows four female characters on the brink of enormous life change as symptoms of climate change begin to manifest in their town. The deGroot Foundation is a private family foundation created in 2010 to support high…
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Holly Haworth wins 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant
Creative Writing Program graduate student, Holly Haworth has won the prestigious 2023 Robert B. Silvers Foundation grant for her upcoming book. The Robert B. Silvers Foundation is a charitable trust established at the bequest of the late Robert B. Silvers, a founding editor of The New York Review of Books, with the aim of supporting writers in the fields of long-form literary and art criticism, the intellectual essay, political analysis, and…
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Abhijit Sarmah finalist for coveted national poetry fellowship
The Creative Writing Program is proud to share that graduate student Abhijit Sarmah has been named a finalist for the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships.    About the Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships: The Poetry Foundation awards five Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships annually. Perhaps the largest award offered to young poets in the US, the $27,000 prize is intended to…

2023 Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize Winners
The Creative Writing Program is eager to announce this year's Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize winners. This year, 1 winner and 2 runners up were selected out of 70 applicants by judge and alumna Dr. Ginger Ko. Please see the winners below along with Ginger's comments about their outstanding work:   1st Place: Alex Hoefer About the work: "[Alex Hoefer's poem] is a sly and steady poem, weaving together multilingualism, family, and memory in…
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Undergraduates- Submit poetry for the Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize!
Undergraduate English majors are invited to enter the annual Virginia Rucker Walter Poetry Prize! The competition will be judged this year by poet and UGA alum Ginger Ko This year, the judge will select a winner and 2 runners up. See scholarship amounts below: Winner will receive $2000 1st Runner-up will receive $1000 2nd Runner-up will receive $1000 To enter the competition, please follow the guidelines below:   Each entrant must assemble two…
Stillpoint Literary Magazine
Submit to Stillpoint Volume 54!
Stillpoint Literary Magazine is accepting submissions for Volume 54.  Submissions are due by January 13th.  Read submission guidelines here. SUBMIT HERE.
FGCU Speaker Aruni Kashyap
Professor Aruni Kashyap is a FGCU Eminent Speaker
Creative Writing Program Professor Aruni Kashyap will serve as one of Florida Gulf Coast University's Eminent Speakers.  The event will take place on Tuesday, October 18th.  Professor Kashyap will discuss his latest book, There Is No Good Time For Bad News, which was taught in the Department of English as part of a Postcolonial Literature course.
LeAnne Howe
Professor LeAnne Howe Final Judge for North Carolina Literary Review Poetry Prize
Eidson Chair in American Literature LeAnne Howe served as the final judge for the James Applewhite Poetry Prize sponsored by the North Carolina Literary Review. Just over 400 poems were submitted by 115 poets, and Howe selected Barbara Campbell’s poem “Half an Avocado and a Dollop of Hollandaise” from eleven finalists whose poems were selected for publication in 2023 by Poetry Editor Jeffrey Franklin. Click here to read more about the contest…
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