News & Events

The School of Creative Writing is welcoming several new faculty members this year. Anosh Irani and Chelene Knight joined Creative Writing in January, and Alex Marzano-Lesnevich and Austen Osworth will join the School in July.

The School of Creative Writing is welcoming poet Oliver Baez Bendorf as virtual writer in residence from January 23 to February 3. Oliver will lead workshops within Creative Writing classrooms, and also has openings for virtual one-to-one consultations on February 1 and 2.

Over the last year, Creative Writing faculty published fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid works that see the world through collaborative acts of art-making—with family, ancestors and communities, and with illustrators, teachers and screenwriters.

In his fun, witty and insightful podcast, Jason Emde, MFA ‘22, discusses samples of early work with guest writers, musicians and artists. We asked him a few questions about the podcast, which can be found on Buzzsprout, Apple Podcasts, Spotify or Google Podcasts.

The online world has real dangers, but girls around the world are using social media to create positive change and practice good digital citizenship. Lecturer Tanya Kyi’s new children’s book, Better Connected, focuses on the less-recognized and positive aspects of the online experiences of girls.

Jasmine Sealy’s debut novel The Island of Forgetting released in Canada on April 26. Sealy’s novel is based on her manuscript “A Fair Wind to Take You Home” that won the Prize for Best New Fiction in 2020. We interviewed Sealy about her experience taking The Island of Forgetting from draft to published novel.