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Thank you to everyone who came to the English Department Awards Ceremony to celebrate our wonderful English Department c...
04/30/2026

Thank you to everyone who came to the English Department Awards Ceremony to celebrate our wonderful English Department community! We wish you all a wonderful end of semester and stay tuned for more to come!!

Thinking ahead and class shopping? Check out this new class offering from Dr. Jena DiMaggio!
04/21/2026

Thinking ahead and class shopping? Check out this new class offering from Dr. Jena DiMaggio!

Please join us on April 14, 2:00pm, in ARTSCI Room 252 for a Disability Studies and the Arts special event featuring poe...
04/10/2026

Please join us on April 14, 2:00pm, in ARTSCI Room 252 for a Disability Studies and the Arts special event featuring poet and professor Rebecca Lindenberg!

Professor Lindenberg will introduce her work, share a few of her favorites, and engage questions and requests from graduate students before opening up to general conversation.

Rebecca Lindenberg is the author of dozens of poems in multiple prestigious journals and three books of poetry. In her most recent work, Our Splendid Failure to do the Impossible (BOA 2024), she poetically reconfigures relationships with and around diabetes experience.

Event is hosted by the Advanced Topics in Disability Studies graduate students.

Don't miss the LCS mini-conference happening next Wednesday 2:00-6:20PM at the Elliston Poetry Room!! Refreshments will ...
04/09/2026

Don't miss the LCS mini-conference happening next Wednesday 2:00-6:20PM at the Elliston Poetry Room!! Refreshments will be served!!

We've got one more event for you this year for our Visiting Writers Series! The Department of English and the Elliston P...
04/09/2026

We've got one more event for you this year for our Visiting Writers Series! The Department of English and the Elliston Poetry Fund are thrilled to present Kathryn Cowles and Donald Revell:

Poetry Reading
April 23, 5:30 PM
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

Kathryn Cowles’s third book of poems, The Strange Wondrous Works of Eleanor Eleanor (Fence Books, 2026), won the Fence Modern Poets Prize. Poems from this book won the Poetry Society of America’s Alice Fay di Castagnola Manuscript-in-Progress Award. Her other books include Maps and Transcripts of the Ordinary World (Milkweed Editions, 2020) and Eleanor, Eleanor, not your real name (Bear Star, 2008), which won the Dorothy Brunsman Poetry Prize.
Donald Revell is the author of fifteen collections of poetry, six volumes of translations from the French, and three volumes of critical writings. A former Fellow of the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations, he is the winner of the PEN USA Translation Award and two-time winner of the PEN USA Award for Poetry. His latest book of poems, Canandaigua (Alice James Books), was named a must-read book of 2024 by both Publishers Weekly and LitHub.

Free and open to the public
For more information visit www.artsci.uc.edu/creativewriting or our link in bio!!

The final set of selected submissions from the 2024-2025 Writing Showcase will focus on personal stories and research. C...
04/07/2026

The final set of selected submissions from the 2024-2025 Writing Showcase will focus on personal stories and research. Coming from a blend of courses (099, 1001, and 2089) these writers capture the attention of readers through their use of vivid descriptions, the integration of data into storytelling, and use of interesting genres. A few of the submissions take the form of newspaper articles, while the others reflect more academic structures. Together, they represent the multiple forms that storytelling can take in composition courses and beyond. Read works from:

Emellia Pavlac, Health Information Systems major, Freshman
Evie McDonough, Art History major, Freshman
Kay Jimenez, Public Health major, Sophomore
Tessa Hodge, Pre-Business Administration major, Sophomore

Check them out and the details on how to submit for this year's Writing showcase at our link in bio linktr.ee/uc_english!

We've got multiple events this month and poetry lovers will not want to miss this one! The Department of English and the...
03/20/2026

We've got multiple events this month and poetry lovers will not want to miss this one! The Department of English and the Elliston Poetry Fund are thrilled to present the 2026 Elliston Poet-in-Residence Joyelle McSweeney!

Talk: "I will change the" "forms in dreams": Strange Flowers in the Necropastoral
This talk will propose "the Necropastoral" as an active eco-decadent zone of decay, mutation, posthumicity, strange meetings, and commingled forms. It will take as its primary example "strange flowers" in the work of Alice Notley, and show how the phenomenon of "strange flowers" indicates political and moral urgency and marks out a path of Disobedience made of Dream and Poetry itself.
March 31, 5:30 PM
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

Poetry Reading
April 2, 5:30 PM
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, drama and prose, including Death Styles (Nightboat Books, 2024) and Toxicon and Arachne (Nightboat Books, 2020), which was called “frightening and brilliant" by Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker and earned her the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in South Bend, Indiana and teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Free and open to the public

For more information visit our link in bio or www.artsci.uc.edu/creativewriting!

Our second Visiting Writer is in a couple weeks! The Department of English and the Schiff Fund for Contemporary Fiction ...
03/10/2026

Our second Visiting Writer is in a couple weeks! The Department of English and the Schiff Fund for Contemporary Fiction present:

Danielle Dutton
Fiction Reading
March 24, 5:30 PM
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library

Danielle Dutton’s most recent book, Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other (Coffee House Press, 2024) was longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize. She is also the author of the novels Margaret the First (Catapult, 2016) and SPRAWL (Wave Books, 2018) and the collection Attempts at a Life (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007). Her fiction and criticism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The White Review, Conjunctions, The Brooklyn Rail, Music & Literature, Harper’s, BOMB, Fence, NOON, etc. In 2009, Dutton co-founded, with Martin Riker, the award-winning independent press Dorothy, a publishing project. The press’s titles have been listed for or won The National Book Award, The Shirley Jackson Award, The Goldsmiths Prize, The Republic of Consciousness Prize, and others.

Free and open to the public
For more information visit www.artsci.uc.edu/creativewriting or our link in bio!

We are thrilled to share that RPW faculty Chenxing Xie, Katie Powell, Lora Anderson, Teresa Cook, and Laura Wilson recei...
02/24/2026

We are thrilled to share that RPW faculty Chenxing Xie, Katie Powell, Lora Anderson, Teresa Cook, and Laura Wilson received the Bearcat AI Grant for our project titled “Integrating Ethical AI Into Professional Writing Across Disciplines”. We were recognized and presented our work at the UC AI & Emerging Technology Symposium on Wednesday, February 18. A huge round of applause for our distinguished faculty members!!!

Here are a few more submissions from last year's Writing Showcase: The third publication of selected submissions from th...
02/23/2026

Here are a few more submissions from last year's Writing Showcase: The third publication of selected submissions from the 2024-2025 Writing Showcase features a topic that appears regularly in writing from students enrolled in 099, 1001, and 2089: medical science research. While each author approaches their research from a slightly different perspective, all of the pieces provide interesting insights on often underdiscussed medical-related topics. Read works from Aiden Gleason in Psychology, Derek Lyons in Medical Sciences, and Myrella Jones in English. Check them out at our link in bio linktr.ee/uc_english!

Don't miss your opportunity to submit for this year's Writing Showcase, you can find the details in our link in bio as well or here: http://artsci.uc.edu/.../2024-2025-call-for-submissions.html

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