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Get spooked at A Dialogue Halloween

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A Dialogue Halloween hosted by the Butler MFA Creative Writing Program at Efroymson Center for Creative Writing

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 I

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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.

Butler University ChamonixBut you absolutely shouldn’t take my word for it. You should, however, take Jim Hanna‘s word for it. Because he went. And despite this glamorous head shot, he is most assuredly not a paid actor. He was kind enough to answer a few questions and share a near-death experience with me. Continue reading →

Chamonix Memorixs: Part I

Posted by MS

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.

Butler University ChamonixBut you absolutely shouldn’t take my word for it. You should, however, take Jim Hanna‘s word for it. Because he went. And despite this glamorous head shot, he is most assuredly not a paid actor. He was kind enough to answer a few questions and share a near-death experience with me. Continue reading →