Past Creative Writing Events (Archived)
Spring 2023 |
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Alumni Reading A Binghamton alum, Tara Betts is the author of the poetry collections Refuse to Disappear, Break the Habit, and Arc & Hue. She acts as Poetry Editor at The Langston Hughes Review and is the founder of the nonprofit organization The Whirlwind Learning Center. This event will also feature readings by current Ph.D. students Cole Depuy and Jordan Franklin. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Javier Zamora's memoir, Solito, is a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as featured on Today, as well as a New York Times Bestseller. His poetry collection, Unaccompanied, won the Northern California Book Award (2018) and was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award (2019). Registration is required. [Update circa 3/9: This in-person event is sold out, but will also be livestreaming on Zoom.] |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Word of Mouth In this second annual collaboration between the Binghamton University Music Department and Creative Writing Program, composers, writers and performers create genre-defying compositions that celebrate poetry, music and the singing voice. The performance will coincide with the Binghamton University Art Museum's exhibition "Bonds: Glass Bonds,” which will present an array of objects manifesting the atomic bonds that constitute glass and the social bonds that glass enables. |
Fall 2022 |
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English Graduate Orientation All first-year creative writing graduate students are invited to attend an in-depth Q&A following the English Department's Graduate student orientation. Join us for food, social activities, and a welcome from Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang. |
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Decoding the Diversity Statement More and more institutions are requiring diversity statements for academic job applications. But how does a diversity statement differ from a teaching statement, and why is it so important? Join Associate Director of Creative Writing, María Álvarez, for an hour-long discussion and Q&A on the process of writing a successful diversity statement. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Lisa Ko is the author of The Leavers, which was a 2017 National Book Award for Fiction finalist, won the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, and was a finalist for the 2018 PEN/Hemingway Award. |
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Pedagogy Talks Open to graduate students and instructors, the meetings will be held in person and will be a space for both new and experienced instructors to discuss pedagogy as it pertains to creative writing. These talks will be facilitated by Ph.D. student, Jamey McDermott. |
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Coffee & Conversation Join Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, for a casual meetup. All creative writing
students are welcome as we discuss student writing life, upcoming events, programs,
student support, classes, and finding connections to our writing community. Topics
will include the new School of the Arts, field exams, and other news. Coffee/tea/pastries
will be served. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Bianca Stone *This Zoom event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students. Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours, The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, and most recently What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022). Stone’s poems, poetry comics, and essays have appeared in a variety of magazines including The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic, Poetry Magazine and Brooklyn Rail. She teaches classes on poetry and consciousness in Vermont. Bianca Stone's full bio. |
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Literary Legacies: A Two-Day Film Screening Honoring John Gardner and Ruth Stone Ruth Stone screening: Saturday, October 15 from 12:00pm-3:00pm |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Sasha Stiles Sasha Stiles is a first-generation Kalmyk-American poet, artist and AI researcher
probing the intersection of text and technology in hybrid works including Technelegy (Eyewear Publishing, 2022). Stiles' hybrid poetry and artwork has been widely exhibited
in both analog and virtual realms and recognized by creative visionaries from Ray
Kurzweil to Judy Chicago. She has been invited to speak at TED, SXSW, Art Basel, Miami
Art Week, Parsons The New School, NFT.NYC, the Ai4 Summit, Binghamton University Art
Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Digital Art, and elsewhere. Sasha Stiles's full bio. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Kaveh Akbar is an award-winning Iranian-American poet and scholar. He is the author of poetry collections, Pilgrim Bell, and, Calling a Wolf a Wolf. |
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Pedagogy Talks Open to graduate students and instructors, the meetings will be held in person and will be a space for both new and experienced instructors to discuss pedagogy as it pertains to creative writing. These talks will be facilitated by Ph.D. student, Jamey McDermott. |
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Career Paths for Creative Minds There are many career paths to explore with undergraduate and graduate degrees in English literature. Binghamton University alumni will explore their career choices in academia, editing, and law. Panelists will include Jane Alberdeston, current lecturer and tenure track professor at the University of Puerto Rico (PhD, 2007) Jen DeGregorio, Associate Editor, Poets & Writers (PhD, 2021), and Tomer Inbar, poet, editor, and lawyer. They will discuss their choices, how they pursued their current careers, improved their employability, and maintained their writing lives while actively working. |
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Spring 2022 |
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Distinguished Writers Series Adrian Matejka's most recent collection of poetry is Somebody Else Sold the World. His other books are Map to the Stars, The Big Smoke, Mixology, and The Devil's Garden. He served as Poet Laureate of the state of Indiana in 2018-19 and lives in Indianapolis, Indiana. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Melissa Febos is the author of the essay collections Girlhood and Abandon Me, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir, Whip Smart. A craft book, Body Work, will be published by Catapult in March 2022. |
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Submitting Your Book-length Manuscript for Publication This talk will examine the process of submitting a book-length manuscript to a commercial press, to a small, literary or university press, or a nonprofit independent press. Join Distinguished Professor of English, Jaimee Wriston Colbert, in a discussion on the process of preparing a manuscript for submission to agents, book contests, and more. |
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Word of Mouth: New Words, Voices, and Music In collaboration with the Binghamton University Music Department, the Creative Writing Program will present a semester-long project celebrating poetry, music, and the singing voice. Enjoy live musical performances and poetry readings by all-star teams of graduate/undergraduate students. |
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Common Ground Reading Series Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
Fall 2021 |
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Coffee & Conversation Join Director of Creative Writing, Tina Chang, each month for a casual meetup. All creative writing students are welcome as we discuss student writing life, upcoming events, programs, student support, classes, and finding connections to our writing community. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Edgar Kunz *This event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students. Edgar Kunz is the author of the poetry collection Tap Out, a New York Times New & Noteworthy book. He has received fellowships and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), MacDowell, Bread Loaf, Sewanee, and Stanford University, where he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Andre Dubus III is the author of the novels Gone So Long, Dirty Love, The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog, and the memoir, Townie. He lives with his family north of Boston. |
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Wednesday, October 13 at 7:00pm EDT Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from three graduate and three undergraduate writers. |
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How to Query an Agent and Other Publishing Questions with Alexi Zentner *This event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW graduate students Join Professor Zentner for an hour long Q&A on the process of querying agents and submitting for publication, as well as other publishing topics. While this event is geared toward students writing prose, all creative writing graduate students are welcome to attend. |
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Distinguished Writers Series Ada Limón is the author of six books of poetry, including The Carrying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry. Limón is also the host of the critically-acclaimed poetry podcast, The Slowdown. |
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Demystifying the Academic Cover Letter *This event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW graduate students Learn how to write your way into your next academic position. Join Associate Director of Creative Writing María Álvarez for an hour long discussion and Q&A on the process of writing a successful academic cover letter. All creative writing graduate students are welcome to attend. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Jake Skeets *This event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series. He is the recipient of a 92Y Discovery Prize, a Mellon Projecting All Voices Fellowship, an American Book Award, and a Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at Diné College. |
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Wednesday, November 17 at 7:00pm EST Join the Common Ground reading series and experience live readings from 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers. |
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A Reading & Class Visit with Hala Alyan *This event is exclusive to Binghamton-enrolled CW undergrad and grad students Hala Alyan is the author of the novel Salt Houses, winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Arab American Book Award and a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize, as well as the novel The Arsonists’ City, and four award-winning collections of poetry, most recently The Twenty-Ninth Year. |
Spring 2021 |
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| Friday, March 5th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
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Thursday, March 11th 7pm, Faculty Reading with Alexi Zentner, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing and creative writing student Heather Humphrey. Introduction by Jaimee Wriston Colbert. Zentner is the author of seven novels: Copperhead, The Lobster Kings, and Touch, and under the pseudonym Ezekiel Boone, he is the author of the internationally bestselling The Hatching trilogy (The Hatching, Skitter, and Zero Day), and The Mansion. Alexi Zentner's full bio. A recording of this event is available to view on the Binghamton Center for Writers Facebook page. |
| Monday, March 15 5:30pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Thursday, March 18th 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, Ross Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which, Bringing the Shovel Down, and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, and Be Holding, (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020). He is also the author of a collection of essays, The Book of Delights (Algonquin Books, 2019). Ross Gay's full bio. A recording of this event is available to view on the Binghamton Center for Writers Facebook page. |
| Thursday, March 25th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Tuesday, April 6th 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, Cathy Park Hong is the author of a book of creative nonfiction, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning (One World/Random House), the poetry collections Engine Empire, Dance Dance Revolution (both from W.W. Norton), and Translating Mo’um (Hanging Loose Press). Hong is the recipient of the Windham-Campbell prize, the Guggenheim Fellowship, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Cathy Park Hong's full bio. A recording of this event is available to view on the Binghamton Center for Writers Facebook page. This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies |
| Monday, April 19th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
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Tuesday, April 20th 7pm, 2020 Binghamton Book Awards Winners Reading with Monique Truong and Joe Jiménez: Joe Jiménez recieved the 2020 Milt Kessler Poetry Book Award for his collection Rattlesnake Allegory. He is also the author of the poetry collection The Possibilities of Mud and Bloodline, a young adult novel. Jiménez is the recipient of the 2016 Letras Latinas/Red Hen Press Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared on the PBS NewsHour and Lambda Literary sites. Jiménez was recently awarded a Lucas Artists Literary Artists Fellowship from 2017-2020. More about Joe Jiménez. Based in Brooklyn, NY, Monique Truong is a Vietnamese American novelist, essayist, librettist, and intellectual property attorney. Truong received the 2020 John Gardner Fiction Book Award for her novel The Sweetest Fruits (Viking Books, 2019). She is also the author of the novels Bitter in the Mouth (Random House, 2010) and The Book of Salt (Houghton Mifflin, 2003). Monique Truong's full bio. A recording of this event is available to view on the Binghamton Center for Writers' Facebook page. |
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| Friday, April 23rd 7pm, The Spring Showcase is an annual gathering and celebration of Binghamton University's artistic talent and will feature readings by the Creative Writing program's poets, novelists, and memoirists along with musical accompaniment. Zoom link. | |
| Thursday, April 29th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers. readers TBA. Zoom link. | |
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Tuesday, May 4th 7pm, Faculty Book Launch. Introduction by Alexi Zenter. Professor Jaimee Wriston Colbert is the author of the novel Vanishing Acts (Fomite) among two others. She is also the author of three short story collections, including Wild Things (BkMk Press). Originally from Hawaii, she has won the 2019 Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. Her fourth novel, How Not to Drown is forthcoming in May 2021 by Crooked Lane Books/Alcove Press. More about Jaimee Wriston Colbert. A recording of this event is available to view on the Binghamton Center for Writers' Facebook page. |
| Thursday, May 6th 5:30pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
Fall 2020 |
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| Thursday, September 3rd 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
| Tuesday, September 8th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Wednesday, September 23rd 1:30pm, reading and class visit with artist, poet, and writer Rachel Eliza Griffiths. Her most recent collection is Seeing the Body (W.W. Norton). Griffiths was selected as the 2020 Stella Adler Poet-in-Residence. Rachel Eliza Griffiths’ full bio. |
| Tuesday September 29th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
| Thursday, October 8th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. | |
| Thursday, October 8th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Tuesday October 13th, 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. |
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Thursday, October 15th 7pm, Faculty reading featuring Joe Weil and creative writing student Mercia Kandukira. Joe Weil’s latest books, published in 2020, are Helping the Village Idiot Feed the Chickens (Iniquity press/Vendetta books) and his new collection of poetry is called The Backwards Year (NYQ books). Joe Weil’s full bio. |
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Thursday, October 22nd 7pm, Distinguished Writers Series, reading and conversation with poet Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition (Copper Canyon) which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Jericho Brown’s full bio. |
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Wednesday, October 28th 1:30pm, reading and class visit with poet Kimiko Hahn, author of Foreign Bodies (W.W. Norton) and nine other books of poems. Hahn has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, and many other honors. Kimiko Hahn’s full bio. |
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NOVEMBER |
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Thursday November 5th 11am, Coffee & Conversation with the Director is a casual meetup of Creative Writing students to discuss the program, events, and to connect. |
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| Thursday, November 5th 7pm, Common Ground is a virtual reading of poetry and prose featuring 3 graduate and 3 undergraduate writers, readers TBA. | |
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Thursday, November 12th 6:30pm, Distinguished Writers Series, a reading featuring the poet and memoirist Carolyn Forché. Her most recent publications are the poetry collection, In the Lateness of the World (Penguin Press), and her memoir What You Have Heard Is True (Penguin Books). Carolyn Forché’s full bio. |
| Monday, November 16th 7pm, The Global Imaginary is an international reading series focusing on translation and the exchange of language and ideas. | |
| Tuesday November 17th 1pm, Social Drop-In is an informal social gathering of Creative Writing graduate students to talk openly and grow a vibrant writing community. | |
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Wednesday, November 18th 1:30pm, reading and class visit with writer Nick Flynn. He will be reading from Stay (ZE Books), his new collaborative book, and from his new memoir, This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire (W.W. Norton). Nick Flynn’s full bio. |
Contact
Creative Writing press and event inquiries can be directed to Suzanne Richardson, Assistant to Creative Writing: sricha18@binghamton.edu
