@nugradwriting.bsky.social
Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies graduate writing program: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Publishing & Prof. Development, Dual Genre Admissions deadlines: 1/15, 4/15, 7/15, 10/15 sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry
Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...
Sharing a new Word Cafe post from MFA fiction alumnus TJ Jaffe, "Jail Is a Four Letter Word."
sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word...
#writing #nonfiction #teaching #creativewriting #mfainwriting #fiction #amwriting #activism #poetry #poems #volunteer #write #writers #writingcommunity
Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...
02.06.2025 08:19 — 👍 1923 🔁 370 💬 57 📌 30
From "So Many Promises And So Many Lies" by S. Afzal Haider, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."
From "Chicken Man" by Elizabeth McKenzie, @elizabethmck.bsky.social CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."
From "Henriette's Trick" by Signe Ratcliff, CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social
✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
catamaranliteraryreader.com/events-2025/...
I need this right now
18.06.2025 22:33 — 👍 9017 🔁 1033 💬 342 📌 127
Join us on Aug 19 in Evanston, IL for a faculty & alumni reading, cohosted by @bookedevanston.bsky.social (venue is Brothers K cafe, 500 Main St.) Alumni: @betsyhaberl.bsky.social, Alexandria Haynes, Jared Spitz, Ryan Rivera, & faculty: Faisal Mohyuddin, Billy Lombardo, @loriraderday.bsky.social! ✒️
18.06.2025 23:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ankurthakkar.com who will publish his debut novel, Blow Yourself Up, in 2026!
08.05.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Fiction faculty @loriraderday.bsky.social will be participating in Thrillerfest in New York City from June 19 – 21. Her new novel, WRECK YOUR HEART (for cover reveal - click on link), will be out on January 6, 2026 from Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/02/e...
17.06.2025 15:36 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Our pleasure, Ignatius!
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REMINDER: April is Procrastination Awareness Month.
14.06.2025 06:14 — 👍 214 🔁 25 💬 19 📌 2Our pleasure!
06.06.2025 22:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“By middle age some doors have closed for everyone, but others have opened and there’s a lot going on inside those rooms.”
Super pleased by this careful & generous attention—
Our most recent Word Cafe post offers a poetry collection recommendation: @amorak.bsky.social's DAD JOKES FROM LATE IN THE PATRIARCHY - the post was penned by current MFA student Emily Updegraff!
#poetry #mfainwriting #poems #creativewriting #amwriting #poets
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Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ignatius2u.bsky.social who was named one of Newcity's LIT 50!
The list isn't yet online, but it's in a Newcity print version if you're in the Chicago area. (Print subscriptions are also available for mailing). lit.newcity.com
Congrats to MFA alumnus @arammrjoian.bsky.social whose debut novel WATERLINE will be published Tue 6/3! He & fellow MFA alumnus @jbohnsack.bsky.social will be in conversation on Th. 6/5 at the Book Cellar, 4736 N. Lincoln Ave, Chicago 7 PM!
More info here:
www.bookcellarinc.com/aram-mrjoian...
For our inaugural issue we will award a prize to one fiction piece and one nonfiction piece. Submissions are free. All regular reading period submissions received by 7/31 will be considered.
www.broadripplereview.com
Please consider sharing this opportunity with your fellow writers.
Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ankurthakkar.com who will publish his debut novel, Blow Yourself Up, in 2026!
08.05.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I can’t wait
29.04.2025 18:01 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1Six ridiculous questions with MFA fiction alumnus Jeremy T. Wilson, published by Vol. 1 Brooklyn.
02.05.2025 21:26 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to fiction MFA student Jared Spitz who recently received @storystudiochicago.bsky.social Stories Matter Foundation Award!
Photos here from the awards ceremony on Thursday, May 1!
#writers #amwriting #stories #writingcommunity #creativewriting #MFAinwriting #storiesmatter
Last night, we presented our Emerging Writers Awards to the following recipients:
Maggie Veach (DePaul University)
Jared Spitz (Northwestern University)
N.C. Happe (Northwestern University & Luminarts Fellow)
Chidera Nwume (Columbia College)
Stefania Gomez (Luminarts Fellow)
📣 Great news, writers! 🎉 TriQ is launching an open call for submissions! We're on the lookout for craft essays, book reviews, and insightful interviews for our column, The Latest Word! 👉 Submit your work at triquarterly.submittable.com/submit/48157...
01.03.2025 23:24 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Chicago is a veritable playground for cocktail enthusiasts. “Chicago Cocktails” by Nicole Schnitzler features recipes for 100 Chicago-inspired cocktails. The new title is packed with research, interviews and recipes organized by neighborhood.
www.wbez.org/food-drink/2...
Congratulations to MFA fiction alumni @rapscallison.bsky.social & @alexhigley.bsky.social and to current MFA nonfiction student Nicole Schnitzler, who each have new books in the world!
22.04.2025 19:44 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“I don’t think making art is, or should be, a political act. But I do think it’s a moral act. Our mission is to entertain, but also to enlarge the moral imagination of our readers, to awaken their empathy.”
— Steve Almond talks to Christine Sneed
www.zyzzyva.org/2024/04/17/t...
Christine Sneed interviewed me here for The Brooklyn Rail. Thanks to Joseph Salvatore for running this and the excerpt that follows. @jamesreich.bsky.social
brooklynrail.org/2025/04/book...
