Congratulations to fiction faculty member Laurie Lawlor who won the Society of Midland Authors' Children's Reading Round Table Award for her nonfiction book Many Voices: Building Erie, the Canal That Changed America!
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There's still time to apply for classes starting in September 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is July 15.
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting
More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry
“What is one to make of these complex lives? Is forgiveness in order?”
Paul Wilner reviews Joan Silber’s novel, Mercy.
Read at zyzzyva.org
MFA alumnus and editor @realtimchapman.bsky.social recently published a new issue of LitBop - Kindle edition available here and hard copies also available from your favorite bookstore!
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#literarymagazine #litmag #poetry #fiction #books #amreading #amwriting #writingcommunity
New Word Cafe post with two book recommendations by spring quarter fiction workshop faculty @rachelswearingen.bsky.social !sps.northwestern.edu/masters/word-cafe/storie...
The cover of Every Galaxy a Circle by Chloe N. Clark
My book comes out in two days! Why might you want to pick up a copy?
Do you like speculative fiction? Short story collections that are very intentionally ordered? Stories about memories? Ghosts? Friendship? Monsters? Pie? Whales? Basketball?
If so, this might be the book for you!
Sharing a writing prompt for fiction writers - can be adapted for nonfiction and poets (e.g. for a narrative poem).
#amwriting #writingcommunity #mfaincreativewriting #fictionwriter #nonfiction #poetry #poems #essays #shortstories #novel #novelists #shortfiction #shortstory #amwritingfiction
Faculty member Naeem Murr's novel Every Exit Brings You Home (@wwnorton.com) is out on 2/3, book launch at Women & Children First Bookstore, 5233 N. Clark St., Chicago, Th, 2/26, 7 PM - please join us!
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Congratulations to creative writing certificate alumnus Dr. Cathy Humikowski whose first book, READ THIS BEFORE YOU DIE, will be published by @mitpress.bsky.social 🎉#northwesternsps #newbook #medicine #science #mortality
A Sense of Finite Time and Place: MFA fiction alumnus Aram Mrjoian on His Debut Novel WATERLINE (HarperVia) open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Sharing a recent micro-story by current fiction MFA student, Kevin McEvoy published recently by the online journal 50 Give or Take @northwesternsps.bsky.social
#amreading #fiction #shortstories #microfiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction #mfainfiction
Congratulations to @laurazhang.bsky.social, MFA student at @northwesternsps.bsky.social, on the acceptance of an excerpt of her novel-in-progress by Arcturus Literary Magazine (arcturusmag.com)!
#fictionwriter #writing #fiction #writer #fictionwriting #amreading #amwriting #amreadingfiction
Congrats to MFA fiction alum @devintoshea.bsky.social whose book THE VEILED PROPHET will be published in June 2026 by the great @haymarketbooks.org! Link to preorder:
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2770-t...
Congratulations to current MA student in fiction, Brett Brown, whose short story, "A Picture of Fragility," was a second runner-up in the 2025 Gulf Coast Magazine Prize!
Sharing here a new Word Cafe from recent MFA alumnus, Alexandria Haynes!
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#amwriting #writingcommunity #traumawriting #writing #mfaincreativewriting #creativewriting #nonfiction #memoir #personalessay #essay
There's still time to apply for classes starting in late March 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is Jan. 15.
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting
More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry
New post on our program's Word Cafe blog by current MFA student Nathaniel Foster, former LAPD officer and forensics teacher to middle school children this past summer at Northwestern University!
"Should Goldilocks Be Arrested?"
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Spooky season reads to keep you awake at night, at prices that you can't find anywhere but at The Strand. Hit the link for our full collection of cheap thrills 💀📚🎃
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Great talk w Amber Sparks coming up tomorrow. She returns to the show for the first time in 13 years, celebrating the publication of her debut novel, HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE (Liveright).
Stay tuned...
MFA fiction alumnus Patricia Crisafulli shares her thoughts on the experience of writing her recently published novel, THE SECRETS OF THE OLD POST CEMETERY, the third in a series. Her post is up now on our program blog, WORD CAFE ✒️ @northwesternsps.bsky.social
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Congratulations to MFA alumnus Tricia Crisafulli on the release of her third Ohnita Harbor mystery, The Secrets of the Old Post Cemetery, which is out today from Woodhall Press!
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There's still time to apply for classes starting in January 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is October 15.
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting
More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry
New post up on our Word Cafe site by Northwestern School of Professional Studies MFA student Kevin McEvoy about his favorite indie bookstore - the @strandbookstore.bsky.social in NYC!
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Congratulations to fiction alumnus Jeremy T. Wilson, whose new short story, "Where Are You From?", was published in the Spring/Summer 2025 Issue of SWING!
www.porchtn.org/swing
#shortstories #story #fiction #shortstory #literaryjournal #litmag #amreading #amwriting
There's still time to apply for classes starting in January 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is October 15.
#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting
More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry
If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...
📢 JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side!
Deadline to apply is 9/15:
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Looking for a new book to add to your reading list? Current MA student Brett Brown shares a book recommendation/summer reading pick: Taiye Selasi's "The Sex Lives of African Girls."
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#amreading #amwriting #novels #fiction #taiyeselasi
