University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Translation

05/20/2026

Tremendous news: Alum Jacob Shores-Argüello has been awarded a prestigious Harvard Radcliffe Institute Fellowship!

Lasting an entire academic year, the fellowship awards scholars time and resources to conduct work on "groundbreaking projects."

Shores-Argüello "will write a novel told in pieces that draws on his transnational childhood across North and Central America to explore borders—between cultures, languages, and the natural world."

Congratulations, Jacob!

05/06/2026

Rising third-year poet EK Krone has been named the winner of Arkana's Arkansas Writers Award AND the magazine's Editor's Choice Award for her poems HUNTERS & GATHERERS and GENESIS. Kudos, EK!

Hear her read the poems here:

ARKANSAS WRITERS AWARD WINNER &EDITOR'S CHOICE AWARD BY EK KRONE hunters & gatherers everything i am is reinforced by everything i am not: boy means not girl, girl means not God, God means not real; not real as in the fact that i am a selfish girl: you give & i gather.you hunt & i

05/04/2026

Curious about the art of literary translation?

Professor Padma Viswanathan discusses the finer points of translating texts into English on the most recent episode of Short Talks from the Hill.

Listen here:

Writer Padma Viswanathan, who teaches graduate-level creative writing and translation, is also a celebrated translator of Portuguese. She explains the practice, art and deeper purpose of translating fiction into English.

04/27/2026

Poetry for this (almost!) end of semester Monday morning - "SOUTHERN LOVE SONG FOR Q***R GIRLS" by alum Dylan Hopper is up at Scavengers now.

sunlight-dappled dirt rises in plumes thick as flour-caked biscuits or sticky pollen   kissin’ tulips, your Alabama mouth soft- presses into the corner of my Carolina eye,   dilates our jinxed past or what seems set in the stone cracked across the creek, erratic, another nam

04/17/2026

Big congratulations to third-year fiction MFA Abuchi Modilim! Abuchi's story, AMERICAN ACTORS is up at Guernica now.

"We wanted to act out an American movie and shoot and shoot and shoot and shoot. We wanted to burn down the world like American actors."

04/08/2026

Join us at Fayetteville Public Library as we welcome acclaimed author Stephen Graham Jones to Fayetteville next Tuesday, 4/14!

HEADS UP:
Book sales begin at 5pm, and Stephen Graham Jones is scheduled to do a book signing from 5-5:45pm prior to the event.

The University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing & Translation is proud to present its 2025-26 Distinguished Reader, acclaimed novelist Stephen Graham Jones, for a reading, Q&A, and signing.. Event starts at April 14, 2026 6:00 PM CDT

03/23/2026

Huge congratulations to Prof. Padma Viswanathan!

**MAJOR CONGRATULATIONS** to Creative Writing & Translation Professor and author Padma Viswanathan for being selected as one of the 2026 nominees for the International Booker Prize! Professor Viswanathan was nominated for her translation of Ana Paula Maia's _On Earth As It Is Beneath_. :-)

Read more here: https://news.uark.edu/articles/80930/viswanathan-receives-nomination-for-international-booker-prize

03/19/2026

Wrapping up a terrific Spring semester with a visit from 2025-26 Distinguished Reader Stephen Graham Jones!

Get the details and register for this free public event here:

The U of A Program in Creative Writing and Translation is proud to welcome novelist Stephen Graham Jones as its 2025-26 Distinguished Reader. Jones will give a public reading of his work Tuesday, April 14, at the Fayetteville Public Library.

03/16/2026

Kudos to alum Jackie Chicalese!

🎉 Congratulations to CLC team member Jackie Chicalese! Three of her poems,“Grief Fragment,” “Flower Theory,” and “Whitetail," were recently published in "New England Review," Vol. 46, No. 3–4. We’re proud to celebrate this exciting achievement and share her work with our community.

You can check out the nereview here: https://nereview.com/issue/vol-46-no-3-4/

03/06/2026

Join us on Tuesday at the Fayetteville Public Library for a reading & book signing with 2025-26 Walton Visiting Writer in Poetry, Keetje Kuipers!

Kuipers is the author of four books of poetry from BOA Editions and the editor-in-chief of Poetry Northwest. Her collection Lonely Women Make Good Lovers is the winner of the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award.