York College of Pennsylvania Creative Writing

02/10/2021

Tomorrow, Thursday, February 11th at 5PM virtual visiting writer Jess Row will be sharing from his work at York College.

Row's 2019 book "White Flights: Race, Fiction, and the American Imagination" is packed with insight and history about literature and America. And his 2014 novel "Your Face In Mine" (set in Baltimore) asks hard questions about race, identity, and authorship.

The event is free and open to the public; register in advance: https://www.ycp.edu/news-and-events/events/featured/?trumbaEmbed=view%3devent%26eventid%3d481226233

02/13/2020

The York Review is up and running this spring semester at York College of Pennsylvania with new online content, season 7 of The Rough Draft podcast, social media posts, events on campus and downtown, and accepting submissions for their 26th print issue! Follow, read, connect:

Creative Publishing | York College of Pennsylvania | Undergraduate Work.

12/10/2018

Editor Seven Van Nort explains the process behind the The York Review:

https://yorkreview.org/the-print-editors-desk-how-to-create-a-production-calendar-40b3c44b1280

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by Seven Van Nort

12/15/2017

Volunteer opportunities at the biennial Split This Rock poetry festival, DC, April 2018, "highlighting poets working at the intersection of the imagination and social change."

Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness 2018 (April 19-21, 2018) will gather poets, activists, and dreamers in DC for three days of readings, workshops, discussions, youth services & activism -- and YOU CAN BE AT THE HEART OF IT ALL! We are in need of people to fill leadersh....

05/01/2017

A big congratulations to all of the Hoffman Awards Finalists.

Poetry:

1) Ryan Emmert - "God is coincidence"
2) Austin Wolfe - "i can't think of the word for it"
3) Tafshena Khan - Metallic Rulers\

Playwriting:

1) Akiva Harker - Hank/Eddy
2) Vivian Ferris - When They Find Us

Screenwriting:

1) Akiva Harker and {Colin Harker} - The Waiting Room
2) Andrea Linebaugh - Holly Jolly

Short Fiction:

1) Kendra Jones - Dirtied Bed Sheets
2) Austin Wolfe - "Orange Baby"
3) Jay Yeaple - Forgetting How to Remember

Flash Fiction:

1) Kendra Jones - For His Big Germany
2) Megan Fogelsanger & Skyler Thompson - Lost Dog
3) Austin Wolfe - "This will make things better, we tell ourselves"

Non-Fiction:

1) Shelly Goodling - Spilled Milk
2) Austin Wolfe - "When Crowley Knocks: On Occultism, Conspiracies, and the Enigma of Belief"
3) Zoey Gross - Of Eucharists and Runny Noses

10/29/2015

Visiting poet Christopher DeWeese reading tonight at YCP in the Wolf Hall art galleries. 5:00PM. Book sale & signing to follow. Free and open to public.

09/11/2015

We've been busy---with much more to come in 2015-16: http://www.ycp.edu/academics/academic-departments/english-and-humanities/creative-writing/

York College creative writing courses offer students a chance to develop their writing and creative thinking skills under the direction of an actively publishing faculty.

08/07/2014

Hey student fiction writers, you've got until August 31st: http://electricliterature.com/mcsweeneys-first-ever-student-short-story-contest/

The endlessly funny and clever folks at McSweeney's are having their first ever student short story contest. The entry fee gets you a year's subscription to the

09/29/2013

The 2013 Hoffman Writing Contest is open. Cash prizes for the best poetry, flash fiction, short story, and creative nonfiction submissions. Deadline October 25th!

09/29/2013

York College students: You've got until October 18th to send your writing & art in for consideration for the 2013-14 issue of The York Review

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Send us your writing & art for the 2014 York Review --> [email protected]

09/27/2013

Awesome slam poet (and Sprite commercial star) T. Miller tonight at 9:00PM at York College of Pennsylvania

Come see renowned slam poet T. Miller tonight at 9:00PM at York College of Pennsylvania