University of Missouri Creative Writing Program

The University of Missouri Creative Writing Program, with English@MU and CoW Club, presents its second VIRTUAL COFFEEHOUSE, open to all MU lovers and practitioners of creative writing. Join us for another not super uptight social hour, this time featuring special #microfictioning guests Marta Evans & DW McKinney! This Wednesday, October 14th, at 3:30 p.m. over Zoom. Email Prof. Scott Garson ([email protected]) for the Zoom link & #BYOBev.

Event reminder! David Shields will be reading TONIGHT 7 p.m. over Zoom! All are welcome to attend. Email [email protected] for passcode & order a copy of David's work from Yellow Dog Bookshop, or your favorite local bookstore. #readingwritingzooming #cuonzoom

Hey MU undergrads! This is your ONE MONTH WARNING for submissions to the 4th annual LITERATURE EMITTING DIODES writing competition! Send us your best poetry &/or prose of up to #500words by FRIDAY, NOV. 6TH. Find out more about the contest's history & rules, & SUBMIT here: https://tinyurl.com/muLED2020

The University of Missouri Creative Writing Program is delighted to host internationally celebrated author DAVID SHIELDS on the evening of Thursday, October 8th, at 7 p.m. over Zoom! This event is free and open to the public. Email [email protected] for passcode, & don't forget to order a copy of David's work from Yellow Dog Bookshop, or your favorite local bookstore.

The second reading of the Monica A. Hand Memorial Graduate Reading Series is this Friday, October 2nd, starting over Zoom at 6 p.m. CT! Meeting ID: 931 8919 4033. For password, email series co-coordinator Hayli Cox at [email protected]. #ReadingWritingZooming

The University of Missouri Creative Writing Program is trying something a little different this year with our social media pages: dialogic/conversational posts! We hope to foster virtual community in these difficult times and will be coming to you with interactive questions, polls, graphics, and more. First up: With what implements, machines, or mechanisms do you write? Drop your fav objects in the comments, or a like/love/shock/laugh react.

I missed posting about Saturday's Poetry Projection, which is from Katy Didden: "Praise the stuttering flow of light off waves. / Praise the linking wind, the sudden rain’s / promise that what was will be again." Thanks to all our alumni poets that participated in this project! #MizzouAIR

Third night of Poetry Projection at Mizzou! Poetry excerpt by Kathryn Nuernberger. My ire at my terms. / My ire at my impossible wanting. / That I can be no flower and be no field, my ire. #MizzouAIR

Marc McKee, managing editor at The Missouri Review and alumni of the University of Missouri English Department, narrates an excerpt from his poem, "Blooper Real," as part of the University of Missouri College of Arts and Science's fall 2020 Artist in Residence installation, "In Focus: Poetry." While this installation ended this past Sunday, you can check out the poems and images online at air.missouri.edu! #mizzouAIR #MizzouMade

Event reminder! MARILYN CHIN will be reading TONIGHT 7 p.m. over Zoom. All are welcome to attend. Register at the following link: tinyurl.com/MarilynChin917, & order a copy of Marilyn's work from Yellow Dog Bookshop, or your favorite local bookstore. #readingwritingzooming #CUonZoom

The University of Missouri Creative Writing Program, with English@MU and CoW Club, presents a new VIRTUAL COFFEEHOUSE series, open to all MU lovers and practitioners of creative writing! Join us for a not super uptight social hour, starting next Wednesday, September 23rd, at 3:30 p.m. over Zoom. Email Prof. Scott Garson ([email protected]) for the Zoom link & #BYOBev.

Hey MU undergrads! Submissions are now open for the 4th annual LITERATURE EMITTING DIODES writing competition! Send us your best poetry &/or prose of up to #500words by Friday, November 6th. Winning work will be displayed on a scrolling LED sign outside the George Caleb Bingham Gallery and published as a limited-edition broadside from Theretherenow. Find out more about the contest's history & rules, & SUBMIT here: https://tinyurl.com/muLED2020