Writing Now Reading Now

Agnes Corrigan, Kyle Hall, Alexander Hurla, and Jaryd Porter, 2025 WSU Creative Writing graduates, will give readings of their work. Join us for a reception at 2 p.m., followed by the program at 2:30 p.m. This free event takes place in the Polk/Wilson Gallery and everyone is welcome. Writing Now | Reading Now is presented ... Read More

Michael Prior, Wichita State’s 2024-25 visiting emerging poet, will be in residence at WSU March 24 through April 18 teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the poetry tutorial. He will give a reading of his work on Tuesday, April 8. Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m. with the program following at 6 ... Read More

Ladee Hubbard, Wichita State’s 2024-25 visiting distinguished writer, is in residence at WSU from February 17 to March 14, teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students in the fiction tutorial. Join us when she presents a reading of her fiction at the latest Writing Now | Reading Now program at 6 p.m., Tuesday, March 11. Everyone is ... Read More

Holly Wilson is an MFA graduate of Wichita State University who received her Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University where she was a Kingsbury Fellow. She’s an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and will be reading from her recently released novel, “Kittentits."

Adam Scheffler is the author of two books of poetry, “Heartworm,” which won the 2021 Moon City Press prize and “A Dog’s Life,” which won the 2016 Jacer Press Book contest. He holds a Ph.D. in English from Harvard and is assistant professor of poetry at WSU. 5:30 p.m. reception | 6 p.m. program Writing ... Read More

Come celebrate the 2024 graduates of the MFA Program in Creative Writing as they share selections from their literary works. Reception at 2 p.m., with the reading starting at 2:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

Bee Sacks holds an MFA from the Programs in Writing at the University of California, Irvine. Their debut novel, City of a Thousand Gates, published under the name Rebecca Sacks, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for fiction. Their second novel, The Lover, was published in 2023. A former journalist, Bee worked at Vanity ... Read More

Memoir reading with Brian Turner Visiting Author Brian Turner will present a reading from his memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country. He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-edited The Strangest of Theatres. He lives in Florida with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever. Writing Now Reading Now is cosponsored by the ... Read More

Writing Now Reading Now | Poetry Reading by Brian Turner Thursday, February 15 5:30 p.m. Reception 6 p.m. Reading Ulrich Dr. Sam & Jacqui Kouri Collection Study Center Visiting author Brian Turner will read from his new trilogy of poetry books. Writer of the memoir, My Life as a Foreign Country, Turner has penned five ... Read More

Join us to celebrate the 45th anniversary of Wichita State’s MFA Program as Kerry Jones (MFA 2000) reads from The Last Innocent Year, winner of Southeast Missouri State University’s Nilsen Prize. Jones’s fiction has won the Richard Yates Short Story Award and appeared in Sycamore Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Bryant Literary Review Quarterly. Adam ... Read More

Come celebrate the 2023 graduates of the MFA Program in Creative Writing—Adam Benalla, Rachel Greer, Lara Law, and Alexander Romano—as they share selections from their literary works.

Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by WSU’s 2023 Distinguished Visiting Writer, Melinda Moustakis as she reads from her new novel. Moustakis’s story collection, “Bear Down, Bear North: Alaska Stories,” is set in the rugged landscape where she was born, and received the Flannery O’Connor Award and a 5 ... Read More

Join us for a reception at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by a reading by WSU’s Visiting Emerging Poet, Cindy Juyoung Ok. Cindy teaches creative writing at University of California, reviews books for the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet, and translates poetry from Korean. Her poems utilize intelligence and disciplined music to write about being conscious ... Read More

Join us for a reception and reading by the newest member of WSU’s Creative Writing Faculty, Jason Allen! Jason’s first novel, The East End, published by Harper Collins, is currently under development for a streaming series and has been called “an intense, heart-pounding experience from the first page, with brilliant, complex characters.” The Writing Now/Reading Now ... Read More

2:00 P.M. Reception 2:30 P.M. Reading. Please join us to celebrate our 2022 WSU MFA Graduates in Creative Writing. Stephen Woodgeard, Robert Burke, Janet Federico, Reid Kurkerewicz, and Merrick Preti will read from their fiction, and Robert Yates and Luke Ulatowski will read from their poetry. Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, ... Read More

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5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Fiction Reading. Sindya Bhanoo is WSU’s 2022 Visiting Emerging Fiction Writer. Her debut short story collection, Seeking Fortune Elsewhere, is forthcoming in 2022 (Catapult). Her fiction has appeared in Granta, New England Review, and Glimmer Train, and she is the recipient of an O. Henry Award and scholarships from the ... Read More

5:30 P.M. Reception | 6:00 P.M. Poetry Reading. Join us for the release of the new book of poems by award-winning poet and WSU professor Sam Taylor. At once poem, essay, memoir fragment, and art object, The Book of Fools: An Essay in Memoir and Verse is a sweeping elegy for our Earth—and our plastic-choked ... Read More

Come celebrate the graduating class of Wichita State’s MFA Program in Creative Writing as they read from their final projects. Registration is required for this virtual program at ulrich.wichita. edu/programs. Writing Now/Reading Now is cosponsored by the WSU Department of English, Fairmount College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, Watermark Books & Café, and the Ulrich ... Read More

Oklahoma is the setting for Prairie Fever, Michael Parker’s seventh and latest novel, a book that pulls the reader into what one critic calls a “whole family acting out what can and can’t be forgotten, against the backdrops of prairie and range—characters so magnificently and sometimes comically stubborn I really couldn’t put the book down.” ... Read More