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07.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@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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07.11.2025 14:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Want 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 📝
Next Friday!
04.11.2025 12:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New short story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up on After the Storm Magazine 🔥🔥🔥
afterthestormmagazine.com/2025/10/19/o...
🎃 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 🔪🩸🫣
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 📌 1Mark 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...
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!
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 📌 0Mark those calendars 🗓️
25.10.2025 12:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0New story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up now on @thedodgemag.bsky.social 🦟
24.10.2025 12:30 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🚨Pub Alert🚨
A debut collection - Konbit - from alum Sony Ton-Aime (Poetry, Kent ‘19) 💫
Order here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
💡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...
Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️☠️
wildscapelit.com/gas-guzzler-...
Spectacular NEOMFA poets El Bentivegna & Julia Cilano spotted at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 👀👀
Come say hi 👋 we’re here til 4pm 📚
Tonight at Last Exit Books in Kent, come hear words from fiction candidate Willow Campbell 🎙️🌈💫
17.10.2025 12:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tonight!
16.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0ONE MONTH until our first application deadline!
Writers interested in spring 2026 matriculation: plan on hitting submit by 11/15 📝
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/...
@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...
Next weekend!
12.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This issue also features poetry from alum Caid Young — another great reason to check it out 🍅🍅🍅
08.10.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Check 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...
New prose poem from @marybid.bsky.social out now at @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ❤️🩹
Read here: www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/21/e...
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05.10.2025 13:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Final weekend!
03.10.2025 17:13 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0One 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...
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...
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
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