The MFA in Creative Writing program welcomes Presidential Fellow Carolyn Forché back to campus on November 7-13 for another intensive generative workshop.

Please join us for her Poetry Talk today, Tuesday, November 8, at 2:30 p.m. in AF 209A. It’s free and open to the public. And the 10th anniversary exhibit of Tab Journal is in the hallway.

In addition, if you are interested in joining us for Carolyn Forché’s class visit to the graduate poetry class and Aspects of a Writer this evening at 7:30 p.m., please RSVP to leahy@chapman.edu so that we have enough chairs. This evening event is not open to the public.

On November 15, Blas Falconer, author of Forgive the Body This Failure, will be the Tabula Poetica Visiting Poet. His Poetry Talk will be ay 2:30 p.m., and his Poetry Reading will be at 7:00 p.m., both in AF 209A.

The final Tabula Poetica event is the MFA Poetry Reading on December 13 at 7:00 p.m. in AF 209A. Join us for this celebration of student work!

As part of the Engaging the World: Leading the Conversation on Ethnic Studies program, NYT bestselling Aiden Thomas, author of Lost in the Never Woods and the recently released The Sunbearer Trials, will give a reading of Cemetery Boys and talk about writing Young Adult Speculative Fiction. Thomas’s reading is on November 14 at 2:30 p.m. in AF 209AB.

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—Dr. Anna Leahy, Director of MFA in Creative Writing

Alumni Achievements

Student Achievements

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.

Zócalo Public Square's upcoming program "How Does L.A. Inspire First-Time Novelists?” will be held on Thursday, November 10, in partnership with ALOUD. It will be in-person at the ASU California Center in downtown L.A., and streaming live on YouTube. The program is free of charge and RSVP is required.

Santiago Canyon College is hosting the book launch MFA alum and SCC faculty Lynette Beers. Chapman students and alums are invited to celebrate Caught Inside, Beers's latest YA novel. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, November 15, from 4 to 5 p.m. Please RSVP and see the SCC location at: https://forms.office.com/r/Jm8QLUWv8F 

AWP Conference Registrations

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

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. The application deadline is November 11.

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. The deadline is 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.

Honey Literary, a BIPOC-focused literary journal run by women, femme, and queer editors of color, is seeking submissions in the following categories: Essays, Hybrid, Animals, Interviews, Rants & Raves, and Valentines. This reading period (for Issue 5) ends December 15th.

Cris Mazza, fiction writer, memoirist, and assignment editor for American Book Review, is seeking volunteer book reviewers. She contacted our program precisely because of our reputation as book reviewers. ABR is published in hard copy and a digital edition available through university libraries and subscriptions. She assigns books for review rather than an open call for completed reviews. An assigned review is almost certain to be published in ABR. The wait-time for publication is long, but these are also substantive reviews and make a good portfolio for gaining paid work as a reviewer. Dr. Leahy is happy to meet with any student assigned a book review to discuss a draft. If interested, contact Cris Mazza at cmazza@uic.edu. 

Exposition Review seeks fiction, nonfiction, poetry, scripts for stage and screen, experimental narratives, visual arts, film, and comics for its eighth annual issue through December 31. They seek work exploring their issue's theme, "Lines." No fee, and it's a paying outlet.

Named for Bucknell's renowned literary alumnus ('54) and initiated in fall 1993, the Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing offers up to four months of unfettered writing time for a writer working on a first or second book. In the current application season, The Roth Residence is open to writers in any creative genre in the literary arts, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, graphic novel, etc. The residency provides an apartment in Bucknell's Writers' Cottage and a stipend of $5,000. The deadline is February 1, 2023.

Fresh Words is looking for poetry, short stories, essays, and plays for their regular monthly issues. Pieces are to be sent to freshwordsmagazine@gmail.com.

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.