Spring 2008: Calendar of Events

Creative Writing Contest Winners 2007-2008

The Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut provides undergraduate students in all departments with writing courses in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, from beginning to advanced classes. Undergraduate students may choose to receive a concentration in Creative Writing. Graduate courses in creative writing are also offered, generally one per semester. Both undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to submit their work to the numerous writing Contests available to University students, participate on the staff of the Long River Review literary magazine, and otherwise make themselves a part of UConn's thriving creative writing community. 

The Creative Writing Program sponsors two student organizations: the Undergraduate Writers Activities Committee (U-WAC), open to undergraduate students, and the Graduate Writers Activities Committee (G-WAC), open to graduate students, faculty and staff. Both organizations offer students opportunities to workshop poems, stories and essays in small groups as well as various social activities.

The Creative Writing Program—in conjunction with other University departments, organizations and programs—sponsors readings throughout the year by visiting writers as well as members of its own Creative Writing Faculty. In the past few years, visiting writers have included Noël Alumit, Christopher Bram, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Martín Espada, Anne Fadiman, Ardian Gill, Sam Hamill, Georgina Kleege, Maxine Kumin, Phillip Lopate, Khaled Mattawa, Tim Metcalfe, Paul Muldoon, Patricia Powell, Adrienne Rich, Clare Rossini, Sherod Santos, Vivian Shipley, Laurie Stone, William Storand, Deb Swift, Edmund White, and Rebecca Wolff.

Twice a month the Creative Writing Program hosts the Long River Reading Series, with an open-mic followed by feature readings by students, faculty, and community members. Additionally, Long River Career Workshops, generally held once every semester, offer students opportunities to explore careers in writing. 

The Creative Writing Program also sponsors Poetic Journeys, a mass transportation poetry project featuring the work of UConn students, as well as The Lumber Yard, a radio literary journal with readings by University writers on WHUS, the campus radio station.


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