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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 Sarah Rose Etter reads from and discusses her work in the first event of the fall 2019 New Writing Series.

Fiction writer and new UMaine faculty member Hollie Adams reads from and discusses her work.

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.

Novelist Laird Hunt returns to UMaine to give a public reading followed by a Q&A.

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 Desire and Consumption In these dazzling and deeply researched essays, Katy Kelleher blends science, history, and memoir to uncover the dark underbellies of our favorite […]