OSU Creative Writers Association

03/22/2023

We are very excited to welcome the poet Jake Skeets this Friday, March 24th, as our Reader of Renown! Skeets will be presenting a craft talk for current creative writing graduate students, as well as an evening reading in the Edmon Low Browsing Room at 7:00pm.

Jake Skeets is the author of Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, winner of the National Poetry Series, Kate Tufts Discovery Award, American Book Award, and Whiting Award. He is from the Navajo Nation and teaches at the University of Oklahoma. The evening reading is free and open to the public, and Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, will be available for purchase.

12/02/2022

Join us for a reading to celebrate our very own MFA Poetry Fall graduate, Chris Allen (Baker) next Friday, December 9th, at 7:00pm for a virtual reading. Chris will be reading from their thesis as well as their debut chapbook, Approaching Valhalla (Bottlecap Press). As this is a virtual event, we will not be holding a book sale or signing, but you can purchase Chris' chapbook in advance.

This reading is free and open to the public, but please register in advance for the event by going to tinyurl.com/CWAchrisallen.

Chris Allen (they/them) is a nonbinary parent and veteran, whose writing centers on the daily effects of their PTSD, intergenerational trauma, and shedding masks. They won the 2019 Lillie Robertson Prize for poetry. Their works are published or forthcoming with Consequence, Defunkt Magazine, Carmina Magazine, Glass Mountain, Press Pause, As You Were, Apocalypse-Confidential, Line of Advance, Wingless Dreamer, and Southern Arizona Press. Their chapbook “Approaching Valhalla” was recently published by Bottlecap Press. They earned their BA creative writing at the University of Houston and are currently an MFA candidate at Oklahoma State University.

11/03/2022

The Department of English at Oklahoma State University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing-Fiction beginning in August 2023. Responsibilities include a 2/2 teaching load of introductory through graduate creative writing workshops, as well as advising graduate students and willingness and ability to serve on thesis, dissertation, and exam committees.

Applications due November 15th!

The Department of English at Oklahoma State University seeks to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Creative Writing-Fiction beginning in…

10/31/2022

Join us for a reading celebrating PhD candidate Remi Recchia this Friday, November 4th, at 7 PM in the Edmon Low Browsing Room (located on the second floor of the Edmon Low Library). Recchia will be reading from his newly-released chapbook, Sober. A book signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

Remi Recchia is a trans poet and essayist from Kalamazoo, Michigan. He is a PhD candidate in English-Creative Writing at Oklahoma State University. He currently serves as an associate editor for the Cimarron Review and a book editor for Gasher Press. A four-time Pushcart Prize nominee, Remi’s work has appeared in World Literature Today, Best New Poets 2021, Cream City Review, Harpur Palate, and Juked, among others. He holds an MFA in poetry from Bowling Green State University. Remi is the author of Quicksand/Stargazing (Cooper Dillon Books, 2021) and Sober (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022).

10/21/2022

Please join us for a reading celebrating our very own Aimee Parkison next Friday, October 28th, at 7:00pm in the Edmon Low Browsing Room (located on the second floor of the Edmon Low Library)! Parkison will be reading from her latest collection of short stories, "Suburban Death Project."

A book signing will follow, and books will be available for purchase. This event is free and open to the public. We hope to see you there!

Aimee Parkison, recognized for her experimental fiction about women and her revisionist approach to narrative, has won numerous awards and fellowships. These include: a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship; the Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize from Fiction Collective Two; the Kurt Vonnegut Prize from North American Review; the Starcherone Prize for Innovative Fiction; the Jack Dyer Prize from Crab Orchard Review; a North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship; a Writers at Work Fellowship; a prize for writing on madness from Fiction International; a Puffin Foundation Fellowship; a William Faulkner Literary Competition Award for the Novel; and an American Antiquarian Society Creative Artists Fellowship. Parkison has published 7 books of fiction and has 2 more books currently under contract. She has taught creative writing at a number of universities, including Cornell University (where she received her MFA), the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, and Oklahoma State University, where she is a Professor of Fiction Writing.

04/29/2022

Hi all!!!!

Tonight is our final CWA event of the year—the Graduating Graduates Reading!!!! Our friends have worked so hard to get to this point, and we are so thrilled to be able to celebrate them and hear their incredible work TONIGHT! AT 6 P.M.! The zoom link is below, see you all this evening!

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https://zoom.us/j/96684498181?pwd=SXBha0ZPMVhNUnZseVlLUmdHaktiZz09

Meeting ID: 966 8449 8181
Passcode: 412097

02/25/2022

Happy Friday, all!!

TODAY IS THE DAY! The CWA's first visiting writer of the year is Chris Gonzalez, author of I'm Not Hungry But I Could Eat, and he is giving a craft lecture and a reading TODAY! The zoom links can be found in your inboxes, but also, are linked down below!

We've sent out emails over the past week containing links for some of the stories that are included in Chris's collection, and a link for the book itself! Please check out his work, and then come ask him questions/listen to him read and overall, celebrate his incredible writing!

We cannot wait to see you soon! Until then, enjoy your snow day afternoon!

Craft Talk!
Topic: Craft Talk with Chris Gonzalez
Time: Feb 25, 2022 03:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

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https://zoom.us/j/93225137308?pwd=Tmw3VFh4dUJwajlUMXFnSEhmRjhEZz09

Meeting ID: 932 2513 7308
Passcode: 520363

Reading!

When: Feb 25, 2022 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcqcOqsrzovGN2CW2uhlK0IE42uJF14YCly

If you are having trouble registering, access the Zoom link directly here:
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02/18/2022

🎉Visiting!! Writer!!🎉
One week from today, Chris Gonzalez, author of I'm not Hungry But I Could Eat, will be sharing his time with us through a craft talk at 3 p.m. and a reading at 7 p.m.!!! We are so thrilled to get to learn from and listen to Chris, and we know you are too!! You can find Chris's book here: https://www.sfwp.com/books/not-hungry-but

Zoom links will be sent out next week! Until then, mark your calendars!! Prepare your zoom backgrounds!! Write down questions you can't wait to ask Chris!!

Christopher Gonzalez is the author of I’m Not Hungry but I Could Eat (SFWP 2021). A recipient of the 2021 Artist Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, his writing appears in Poets & Writers online, the Nation, Catapult, Best Microfictions, and Best Small Fictions, among other journals and anthologies. He currently serves as a fiction editor at Barrelhouse magazine and lives in Brooklyn, NY but mostly on Twitter .