This year’s ongoing program Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies is chockful of great events, including An Evening with George Takei on November 2 (ticket required) and A Night of Remembrance: Honoring America's Latino Veterans. There’s much more!
The next Sound Healing session in Wallace All Faiths Chapel is on October 3 at 6:00 p.m. There will also be sessions on November 7 and December 5.
The Department of Theatre presents Ovid’s Metamorphosis on October 6-8 and 13-15. Tickets are $10 for Chapman students, faculty, and staff.
Adobe offers free online workshops. Of particular interest might be “Digital Storytelling with Creative Cloud” on October 11 at 5:00 p.m. Other topics include InDesign basics, PhotoShop basics, and using Adobe for collaboration. Chapman students, faculty, and staff have access to Adobe Creative Cloud through their Chapman login credentials.
If you have some good news, tell us what you’re up to. You can write to David Krausman, me, or mfacwnews@chapman.edu with info about your latest career news, whether or not it’s writing related. And we especially like celebrating publications, grants and fellowships, and other writing achievements. For those on Twitter or Instagram to follow us @ChapmanCWMFA.
—Dr. Anna Leahy, Director of MFA in Creative Writing
Alumni Achievements
Lynnette Beers
(MFA '99)
Lynnette Beer's newest novel Caught Inside was published this summer by Flashpoint Publications.
Sierra Ellison
(Dual MFA/MA '17)
Sierra Ellison's prose poem "Pulling Weeds" was published by Ariel Publishing.
Jo Kaplan
(MFA '14)
Jo Kaplan's book When the Night Bells Ring will be published this month with CamCat Books.
Student Achievements
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku
(MFA)
Henneh Kyereh Kwaku was one of three top winners of the Samira Bawumia Literature Prize in nonfiction.
Hannah Montante
(Dual MFA/MA)
Hannah Montante's short story "The Unfortunate Life and Times of Meerkat Thompson" will be published with Great Ape Journal.
Makena Metz
(Dual MFA/MA)
Makena Metz's short story "The Tea Shop" got published with For Page and Screen. Her short screenplay "Grow" was published with The Clockhouse Review. Her adult animated comedy "Theo's Grand Adventure" ranked #13 for Animation (half-hour) for The Red List on Coverfly. She was also chosen as a playwright for 14/48 Hollywood: The World's Quickest Theatre Festival.
Vesper North
(Dual MA/MFA)
Vesper North presented their paper on bi-genderism in Frankenstein at the International Gender & Sexuality Studies Conference at the University of Central Oklahoma.
Events
Inlandia is offering free writing workshops in poetry, prose, nonfiction, and memoir. The focus varies from writing about Black art to food writing to writing for children and young adults, and workshops for seniors will be available. To become part of the Inlandia community of writers, register today! All workshops are free and open to the public. Registration is required.
The 2023 Firecracker Awards for Independently Published Literature seeks volunteer readers. To apply, you must be a reader, writer, or editor engaged in the literary community. They encourage students of MFA or MA programs, alumni of programs, booksellers, staff members of arts organizations, instructors, and publishers to apply. To apply, complete the online application.
AWP Memberships Available
The MFA program will be headed to Seattle for AWP in March 2023! Information about registration waivers will go out to current MFA students soon. For alums interested in getting on the waitlist for a registration waiver, or accessing online membership benefits, please email David at krausman@chapman.edu.
Opportunities
Thin Air is accepting submissions in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, and creative nonfiction work. For their next issue, they are seeking work that explores the complex and malleable nature of homes, lands, and all that they encompass. The deadline is October 15.
Scribente Maternum, a community of writers who identify as mothers, is hosting an in-person retreat in Baltimore, Maryland, at The Clifton House October 20-23, 2022 in partnership with The CityLit Project. The "Write Like a Mother Retreat" is for every writer who identifies as a mom. In addition to having extended craft time with facilitators, attendees will have dedicated craft time and time to flex additional creative muscles around visual journaling.
The Emory University Creative Writing Program is accepting applications for a new two-year fellowship in poetry beginning Fall 2023. Teaching load is 1-2, all workshops; salary is $45,000, plus health benefits. The fellow will give a public reading and have access to the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library, a 75,000-volume rare and modern poetry library housed at Emory. Required: MFA or PhD in the last five years, with undergraduate Creative Writing teaching experience. Desirable: record of periodical publications but no first book yet in print, and secondary interests such as creative nonfiction and working in archives. Application deadline: November 11, 2022.
The MSU Roadrunner Review seeks submissions for its fourth edition, which will launch in December 2022. Prose and poetry should be sent as a properly formatted Word document to roadrunnerreview@msudenver.edu, with the genre and word count (for prose pieces) in the subject line. Pieces without this information in the subject line may not be considered. Please include a short bio. Deadline: November 13.
Glassworks seeks nonfiction, fiction, poetry, hybrid pieces, and artwork both digitally and in print. The deadline for 2023 print issue consideration is December 15.
Fresh Words is looking for poetry, short stories, essays, essays, and plays.
Kaleidoscope (a publication of United Disability Services) seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and book reviews that challenge and overcome stereotypical, patronizing, and sentimental attitudes about disability. No fee, and it's a paying outlet.
Poets & Writers has an extensive list of literary journals with website links and reading periods included, and you can filter by genre. There is also a good list of contests that rolls according to impending deadlines and a list of book review outlets.
