The penultimate member of this fall’s Visiting Writers Series is Karen Russell, author of two collections of short stories and the Pulitzer-nominated, Orange Prize-long-listed novel Swamplandia! On Monday, November 4, Russell will be reading in the Krannert room of Clowes Hall at 7:30 PM. Currently serving as Bard College’s writer-in-residence, Russell has been published in Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, and Zoetrope. Not to mention her debut short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011. Not to mention that, just recently, Russell became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur grant. Continue reading
Butler to become Russellandia!
The penultimate member of this fall’s Visiting Writers Series is Karen Russell, author of two collections of short stories and the Pulitzer-nominated, Orange Prize-long-listed novel Swamplandia! On Monday, November 4, Russell will be reading in the Krannert room of Clowes Hall at 7:30 PM. Currently serving as Bard College’s writer-in-residence, Russell has been published in Best American Short Stories, Conjunctions, Granta, The New Yorker, and Zoetrope. Not to mention her debut short story collection St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves won the Bard Fiction Prize in 2011. Not to mention that, just recently, Russell became one of the youngest recipients of a MacArthur grant. Continue reading
Last chance to enter writing contest
The last event in this fall’s Conversations@Efroymson line-up revolves around our Good Works creative writing contest. While tonight is our Writer’s Harvest (which you should attend! John Green! Ben Winters! Susan Neville! charity!), we’ll be holding our ‘Student Harvest’ on November 14, 7:30PM in the Efroymson Center. And what will our proverbial harvest be reaping? Contest winners and runners-up, naturally.
As you may have read in a previous post, we’re hosting a creative writing contest called Good Works. Open to Butler students both undergraduate and graduate, we welcome poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that reinforces the importance of giving back. You can submit, as well as find more details and full submission guidelines, at the contest’s Formstack.
The contest deadline is November 7, so put the finishing touches on your pieces soon!
Do good, and write good well.
Last chance to enter writing contest
The last event in this fall’s Conversations@Efroymson line-up revolves around our Good Works creative writing contest. While tonight is our Writer’s Harvest (which you should attend! John Green! Ben Winters! Susan Neville! charity!), we’ll be holding our ‘Student Harvest’ on November 14, 7:30PM in the Efroymson Center. And what will our proverbial harvest be reaping? Contest winners and runners-up, naturally.
As you may have read in a previous post, we’re hosting a creative writing contest called Good Works. Open to Butler students both undergraduate and graduate, we welcome poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction that reinforces the importance of giving back. You can submit, as well as find more details and full submission guidelines, at the contest’s Formstack.
The contest deadline is November 7, so put the finishing touches on your pieces soon!
Do good, and write good well.
Get spooked at A Dialogue Halloween
As you may have read earlier this semester, your friendly neighborhood Dialogue workshop hosts low-pressure readings over the course of the year. Sunday evening, 5PM at the Efroymson Center for Creative Writing happens to be our next one. A Dialogue Halloween will feature five readers (shown above), a spooky, seasonally-appropriate theme, and free food.
What’s a little different than usual is that our readers have been invited to read stories from other authors, so there will be a nice mix of established authors and student work. Come out, show support to your fellow MFA brethren and sistren, and maybe consider signing up for our November reading! (No Thanksgiving theme, don’t worry.) Email me at zroth (at) butler.edu with interest.
Chamonix Memorixs: Part III
The Butler MFA program is growing faster than ever, and in the early summer that growth paid dividends to a handful of students who got to spend three weeks in writerly nirvana, attending intensive workshops in Chamonix, France. Part graduate workshop, part scenic vacation, part mad-science experiment, the first Chamonix Summer Writing Program was a resounding success– so much so that it is being offered again, now a permanent offering to Butler students.
In the final part of Chamonix Memorixs, we hear from Lisa Renze-Rhodes. Just like Farhad, Lisa treated her time in Chamonix as an exploration or expedition, though maybe not quite so literally. The questions she asks herself in the beginning are ones I’m sure we’ve all asked ourselves in our broader MFA experience. And hopefully her answers in the end are in kind. Continue reading