Binghamton Center for Writers

Fall 2024

Coffee & Conversation
with Creative Writing Director Tina Chang and Associate Director Jen DeGregorio

Wednesday, August 28, 11am - 12pm 
CEMERS Conference Room (LN 1128)

Graduate students in Creative Writing, join us for an informal conversation with Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, as we get to know new Associate Director of Creative Writing, Jen DeGregorio. We will also welcome our new students and hold a suggestion box for all creative ideas for the year. Coffee, tea, and food served (including vegan options).

Common Ground Reading Series

Friday, September 20, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge, Old O'Connor Hall

Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate student writers. 

The Field Exam: Planning and Completing Your Exams

Wednesday, September 25, 11am - 12pm
LN1128 Cemers Conference Room

Associate Director of Creative Writing Jen DeGregorio reviews the field exam, offering a personal perspective on how she conceptualized, planned, and completed three exams in four years. She will answer any questions you may have on this crucial step toward earning your doctorate and how it can contribute in a meaningful way to your creative work and dissertation.

A Reading with Poet Eugenia Leigh

Wednesday, October 9, 6pm - 8pm
The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge, Old O'Connor Hall

Eugenia Leigh is a Korean American poet and the author of two collections of poetry, Bianca (Four Way Books, March 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late Night Library's 2015 Debut-litzer Prize in Poetry selected by Arisa White as well as a finalist for both the National Poetry Series and the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, Guernica, Poetry, Ploughshares, Poetry Northwest, Tahoma Literary Review, The Massachusetts Review, Waxwing, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, the Best New Poets anthology, the Best of the Net anthology, and elsewhere. Poems from Bianca were awarded Poetry magazine's 2021 Bess Hokin Prize and received Special Mention in the 2023 Pushcart Prize Anthology.

Common Ground Reading

Wednesday, November 8, 6pm - 7:30pm
The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge, Old O'Connor Hall

Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings from undergraduate & graduate writers.

Distinguished Writers Series with Curtis Chin

Wednesday, November 13, 6pm - 8pm
The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge, Old O’Connor Hall

Curtis Chin is the author of Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant (Little, Brown, 2023). A cofounder of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop in New York City, Chin served as the nonprofit’s first Executive Director. He went on to write for network and cable television before transitioning to social-justice documentaries. Chin has screened his films at over six hundred venues in twenty countries.

This event is cosponsored by the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies