Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original work, and discuss our favorite literature. Find us in the Writer’s Block (rm 302) on the third floor of Neville Hall. Spring 2024 semester Storied […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Come celebrate the achievements of our English department in literary, technical, and creative writing and research with us on April 27th at 4:30pm in the Foster Center for Student Innovation. […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
We are excited to announce that the Open Field launch party will be held in the IMRC ! It will be taking place on April 13th from 5:30 - 6:30pm. Come […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Maine writer Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects in The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Essays on […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
Storied is a student-run creative writing club that meets every Monday at 6pm. Come join fellow writers and poets as we follow writing prompts and exercises, explore tropes, share original […]
We celebrate the accomplishments of the academic year with a recognition ceremony to be held in the Writing Center (fourth floor of Neville Hall) on Monday afternoon, May 2, starting […]
Adam Ray Wagner and Christopher Thomas read with Rae Armantrout in a Zoom event celebrating the 2021 Millay Prize for Poetry.
Fiction writers Katie Lattari and Morgan Talty are featured in the fourth event of the fall 2021 New Writing Series. The event, which is free and open to the (masked) public, is co-sponsored by the Honors College as part of their Honors 180: Cultural Odyssey.
A celebration of the brief life and indelible works of poet and diarist Marie Uguay.
The New Writing Series celebrates the Millay Poetry Prize with a reading featuring Kathleen Ossip (external judge), Kat Dubois (first prize), and Paul Eaton (second prize).
The New Writings Series returns from its pandemic hiatus on Thursday, September 30, with an event showcasing new work by Creative Writing faculty members Hollie Adams, Greg Howard, and Jennifer […]
Novelist Laird Hunt returns to UMaine to give a public reading followed by a Q&A.
The UMaine New Writing Series continues its 20th-anniversary season with a public reading by Canadian fiction writer Deborah Willis, author of Vanishing and Other Stories (2009) and The Dark and Other Love Stories (2019).
Poet, essayist, and novelist Lisa Robertson reads in the first event of the spring 2020 New Writing Series. Free and open to the public.
The New Writing Series welcomes poets Stefania Heim and Kristen Case to the fifth and final event of its twentieth-anniversary fall season.
Mexican writer Cristina Rivera Garza, who has lived and taught in the US since 1989, reads from and discusses her work in an event that is free and open to the public.
Fiction writer and new UMaine faculty member Hollie Adams reads from and discusses her work.
The New Writing Series, now celebrating its 20th anniversary season, welcomes poets Sara Nicholson and Sarah Green to campus for a reading and discussion of their work hosted by Jennifer Moxley.
The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a question and answer session.
Fiction writer Sarah Rose Etter reads from and discusses her work in the first event of the fall 2019 New Writing Series.
To celebrate the beginning of the new academic year, the English Department will host an open house for current and prospective students on Thursday afternoon from 3pm to 4:30pm. There […]
The first meeting of the new academic year. Full-time faculty are expected to attend; part-time faculty and graduate students are welcome but not required to attend.
Reception with light refreshments will begin at 3:30 p.m. The ceremony starts promptly at 4:30 p.m.
This year’s Grady Awards were judged by Kate Colby (poetry) and Martin Riker (fiction), both recent visitors to the New Writing Series. In the undergraduate division, Riker selected Katherine Skvorak’s manuscript for first place. Micah Valliere was runner-up. At the graduate level, Tori Hood was the winner and Morghen Tidd runner-up. For undergraduate poetry, Colby […]
Poet, editor, and activist Lynn Melnick reads in the New Writing Series, cosponsored by the English Department and the Center for Poetry and Poetics (formerly the National Poetry Foundation). Free and open to the public.
Poet and activist Lynn Melnick leads a workshop on "rape culture" as part of her visit to campus to read in the New Writing Series.
The New Writing Series features three members of the creative writing faculty at UMaine in a special event, the second of two, designed to showcase the literary talent in our midst. Poets Joanna (Jody) Crouse, Kathleen Ellis, and Leonore Hildebrandt will read from their work in the final event of the fall NWS.
Poet Kate Colby makes her first appearance in the New Writing Series. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including, most recently, The Arrangements.
The New Writing Series features three members of the creative writing faculty at UMaine in a special event, the first of two, designed to showcase the literary talent in our midst. Fiction writers Meghan Dowling and Jeremy Parker will be joined by playwright and poet William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. for a reading that is free and open to the public.
Poet and writer Danielle Pafunda reads in the fourth event of the fall New Writing Series. Pafunda is the author, most recently, of The Dead Girls Speak in Unison (2017). She is visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at UMaine this academic year.
Fiction writer Martin Riker reads from his new novel, Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return, in the third event of the fall 2018 New Writing Series.
Fiction writer Jac Jemc reads in the New Writing Series. The event is free and open to the public. Associate Professor of Creative Writing Gregory Howard will introduce. # On Facebook? Consider joining the NWS group here. The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by the English Department and the National Poetry Foundation with […]
The New Writing Series celebrates its nineteenth year of literary programming at the University of Maine this year. The Series kicks off on Thursday, September 27, with a reading by fiction writer Eugene Lim. The event, which is free and open to the public, will be introduced by Greg Howard. Doors at the Allen and […]
The English Department hosts its own recognition ceremony Wednesday, May 2, at 4:30 in the Hill Auditorium (Barrows Hall). Students, family members, and friends are encouraged to attend.
The New Writing Series is hosting the reading of Fiction MA Theses on Thursday, April 26, 2018 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space (104 Stewart Commons). […]
Undergraduate Humanities Research Conference "How did you think of that?" Turning Your Passion into a Humanities Project This one-day conference, co-sponsored by the Stephen E. King Chair in Literature and […]
The New Writing Series will host the Grady Awards on Thursday, April 19, 2018 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space (104 Stewart Commons). Contact: Dave Kress
The poet Allison Cobb returns to the New Writing Series for a reading on Thursday, April 12, at 4:30pm in the Allen & Sally Fernald APPE Space (Stewart Commons 104). […]
Faculty Lecturer: Dylan Dryer Contact: Elizabeth Neiman
The New Writing Series welcomes Christina Milletti to the University of Maine on Thursday, April 5, 2018 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space (104 Stewart Commons). […]
The New Writing Series welcomes Julie Patton and Drew Gardner to the University of Maine for a performance on Thursday, March 22, 2018 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally […]
The New Writing Series welcomes Eugene Lim to the University of Maine on Thursday, March 8, 2018 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald APPE space (104 Stewart Commons). […]
The Stephen E. King Chair Lecture Series is hosting James M. Smith, who will be presenting on "Ireland's Magdalene Laundries, Academic Advocacy and Restorative Justice." This event will be held […]
“Fence-Sitting Raised to the Level of an Esthetic Ideal: John Ashbery and the Poetics of Middle Age” Lecture presented by: Andrew Epstein, Professor and Chair for Graduate Studies at Florida State University and Listen […]
The New Writing Series welcomes fiction writer Joanna Ruocco to the University of Maine campus for a reading on Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 4:30pm in the Allen and Sally Fernald […]
Pat Burnes - retirement celebration
The annual awards for creative writing at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Reception at 4:00pm Awards at 4:30pm
Steve Mentz, Professor of English, St John's University Hamlet provides an exemplary case of how literature explores the relations between humans and the nonhuman environment. Shakespeare's representations of unstable borders […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President […]
"Wood Bones" is written by a Native Tribal playwright and directed by a Native Tribal Playwright. It is the second play produced here at the University of Maine since 2004, when […]
"Wood Bones" is written by a Native Tribal playwright and directed by a Native Tribal Playwright. It is the second play produced here at the University of Maine since 2004, when Dr. Margo Lukens and William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. presented the first play. Tickets are $10 or free with student MaineCard. Buy tickets online: umaine.edu/spa/tickets […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The Fiddlehead Fund, the New Writing Series Fund, the Lloyd H. Elliott Fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The Fiddlehead Fund, the New Writing Series Fund, the Lloyd H. Elliott Fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors […]
Faculty Research and Scholarship Presentation Series English Department - Fall 2016/Spring 2017 Professor Steve Evans starts off this year’s presentation series with his talk, “The Poetics of Phonotextuality: Timbre, Text, and Technology in Recorded Poetry” While recordings of poetry have been made, disseminated, and archived in a variety of formats from Edison’s day to our […]
Want to Write for TV and Film? Get started at a screenwriting workshop in the Writing Center, 402 Neville Hall. See the flier for this workshop here. Please direct questions to umwcenter@maine.edu
Rion Amilcar Scott’s work has been published in journals such as The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, PANK, The Rumpus, Fiction International, The Washington City Paper, The Toast, Akashic Books, Melville House and Confrontation, among others. A story of his earned a place on the Wigleaf Top 50 (very short) Fictions of 2016 and 2013 […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The Fiddlehead Fund, the New Writing Series Fund, the Lloyd H. Elliott Fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors […]
The UMaine New Writing Series was founded in 1999 and is sponsored by theEnglish Department and the National Poetry Foundation with support from the Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, The Fiddlehead Fund, the New Writing Series Fund, the Lloyd H. Elliott Fund, the Milton Ellis Memorial Fund, the Honors […]
Sponsored by the Elliot Fund. Are “digital natives” as distracted as we’ve been led to believe? The idea of the “distracted digital native” is a widespread one, but what if there is more to this distraction than meets the eye? In this presentation, Dr. Pigg will explore the ongoing work that writers do to shape […]
English Department MA Thesis Defense - "A Look Back" - Stephen Tyler Nute Committee: Dave Kress, Greg Howard, Sarah Harlan-Haughey Refreshments will be served.
English Department MA Thesis Defense - “Cracked Memory” and Soviet Literature: Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. - Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed Thesis committee members: Dr. Carla Billitteri (Chair, Advisor); Dr. Laura […]
LIVE FROM BANGOR PUBLIC LIBRARY Celebrating the 14th Annual POETS/SPEAK! More than 30 well-known & emerging poets, UMaine student poets, Poetry Out Loud winners, & musicians celebrate National Poetry Month. SPEAK UP FOR THE […]
English Department MA Thesis Defense - "Approaches to the Land" - Joseph Linscott Thesis committee members: Dave Kress, Greg Howard, and Sarah Harlan-Haughey Refreshments will be served.
In our third and final presentation for this academic year, Professor Ben Friedlander will discuss his book project on Emily Dickinson.
English Department MA Thesis Defense - "A Skeleton’s Quarrel with Her Double: A Translation from the French of a 2003 novel by the Canadian writer Ying Chen (Querelle d'un squelette avec son double)." - Paige Melin Committee: Chair Jennifer Moxley, Frédéric Rondeau and Tony Brinkley. Refreshments will be served.
In our third and final presentation for this academic year, Professor Ben Friedlander will discuss his book project on Emily Dickinson. Ben’s talk, “Gnats and Giants, Incapacity and Mastery—Thinking about Emily Dickinson” will be held on Monday March 28th, from 3:30 to 5:00 at the University Faculty Club, which is in the Thomas E. Lynch […]
The recipients of this year’s Grady Awards for Creative Writing will read from their winning manuscripts in a special New Writing Series event on Thursday, March 24, 2016. The reading, which will be hosted by members of the creative writing faculty, starts at 4:30pm in the Allen & Sally Fernald APPE Space, 104 Stewart Commons, […]
