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Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA]

@neomfa.bsky.social

The nation’s only consortial MFA creative writing program. Three gateway campuses: The University of Akron, Cleveland State University, & Kent State University. Four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, & playwriting. < neomfa.org >

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TONIGHT

07.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Want to start your MFA experience next semester? Get your applications in by Saturday, 11/15, to be considered for spring admission 💐

Details at neomfa.org/apply 📝

05.11.2025 13:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Next Friday!

04.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wildfire: A Journey Through Memory and Regeneration Explore the powerful narrative of Wildfire in 2353, a journey of remembrance, resilience, and the transformative power of nature.

New short story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up on After the Storm Magazine 🔥🔥🔥

afterthestormmagazine.com/2025/10/19/o...

03.11.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

🎃 Happy Halloween 👻

In honor of the spookiest day of the year, we're flashing-back (flashbacking?) to this bone-chiller, "I Never Saw the Knife," by current Kent fiction candidate @cheyenneshaffer.bsky.social, published recently in Cosmic Horror Monthly 🔪🩸🫣

31.10.2025 12:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The next 2x2 is Nov 7th, featuring a reading from current student Ashton Leigh & musical stylings from alum Matt Dettmer 🎙️🎸📚

30.10.2025 12:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Mark your calendars 🗓️

This Saturday (11am-1pm, 11/1) our Prog. Dir. @marybid.bsky.social will be at The Learned Owl Bookshop in Hudson OH for a book signing of her new novella-in-flash, "The Girl with the Black Lipstick" 🖤💛

Come say hi 👋 & pick up a signed copy ✍️

learnedowl.com/event/2025-1...

29.10.2025 11:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Winter Wheat – The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing

Mark your calendars 🗓️

The @midamericanreview.bsky.social Winter Wheat Festival of Writing is NEXT WEEKEND! Featuring workshops from current fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro & alum Anastasios Mihalopoulos (Poetry, YSU '23).

casit.bgsu.edu/winterwheat/

See you there!

28.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Congratulations to two NEOMFA alums, Carrie George & Benjamin Rhodes, on their Best of the Net nominations from @crayfishmag.bsky.social 🏆

27.10.2025 12:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mark those calendars 🗓️

25.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

New story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up now on @thedodgemag.bsky.social 🦟

24.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Konbit Poems that capture a transformative and visionary way of life in Haiti.Konbit is a Haitian Creole word, a way of living, for which there is no direct translation in the English language. It captures t...

🚨Pub Alert🚨

A debut collection - Konbit - from alum Sony Ton-Aime (Poetry, Kent ‘19) 💫

Order here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

22.10.2025 12:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Encountering Self and Other: A Conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama  | Baker-Nord Institute for the Humanities | Case Western Reserve University 4:30 pm | Linsalata Alumni Center This event will feature a short talk by Pádraig Ó Tuama on the Baker-Nord Institute's fall theme of "encounters," ...

💡Local Literary Event💡

Our neighbors at CWRU are hosting poet Pádraig Ó Tuama for "Encountering Self and Other: A Conversation" on Nov 6th 🗣️

Mark your calendars 🗓️

case.edu/artsci/baker...

21.10.2025 12:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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gas guzzler ghazal corey miller issue 4 // poetry Gas Guzzler Ghazalby Corey Miller Get in the truck, let’s pick up some faithfully lost hitchhikers & guzzle gasoline.Every god consumes ethanol alcohol. Weedwhackers/humans ru…

Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️🪾☠️

wildscapelit.com/gas-guzzler-...

20.10.2025 15:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Spectacular NEOMFA poets El Bentivegna & Julia Cilano spotted at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 👀👀

Come say hi 👋 we’re here til 4pm 📚

18.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight at Last Exit Books in Kent, come hear words from fiction candidate Willow Campbell 🎙️🌈💫

17.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tonight!

16.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ONE MONTH until our first application deadline!

Writers interested in spring 2026 matriculation: plan on hitting submit by 11/15 📝

15.10.2025 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Playwriting candidate Eric Mansfield is holding a staged reading for his new full-length drama, "Ride or Die," on Nov 14th, 7:30pm, at the Coach House Theatre in Akron.

Tix are FREE; register here: makeshift.booktix.com/dept/main/e/...

14.10.2025 13:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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@lityoungstown.bsky.social kicks off this week with readings from @crayfishmag.bsky.social, featuring two current NEOMFA writers: Bella Kaufman & Julia Cilano 🦞🎙️📚

www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

13.10.2025 13:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

Next weekend!

12.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This issue also features poetry from alum Caid Young — another great reason to check it out 🍅🍅🍅

08.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Check out the NEOMFA contributors to @crayfishmag.bsky.social's second issue, 🚀 FUTURES 🚀

📵 fiction from Alexandra Salata (Kent '24)
🔥 poetry from Olivia Mirmohamed (Kent '26)
🛰️ guest-editing from Isaiah Hunt (Kent '22)

Read it all: www.crayfishmag.com/number-two-c...

07.10.2025 11:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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New prose poem from @marybid.bsky.social out now at @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹

Read here: www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/21/e...

06.10.2025 13:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Tonight!

05.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Final weekend!

03.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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One week left to check out "The Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry" at the Kent School of Art, featuring poetics from several current students & alum.

Pictured is Lauren Merry Vale, class of 2013, poet & associate professor at KSU.

Learn more: www.kent.edu/art/news/art...

02.10.2025 11:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Issue 1 — either/or magazine Contributors: Lauren Groff, Sheila Heti, Claire Vaye Watkins, Hermione Hoby, Greg Jackson, Becca Rothfeld, Mary Miller, Kathleen Alcott, Yuko Sakata, Michael Carlson, Caryl Pagel, Christopher Mohar, C...

New work from faculty Caryl Pagel (CSU) in the inaugural issue of Either/Or Magazine 💫

Check it out: www.eitherormagazine.com/store-1/p/is...

01.10.2025 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sorry folks, small correction: Corey’s gateway campus is UA 😬

30.09.2025 21:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

...follow Corey here: @ironbrewer.bsky.social

30.09.2025 12:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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