Creative Writing at the University of Oregon

	WELCOME
	Welcome to the University of Oregon's Creative Writing Program website. We are a dynamic program of six regular faculty members, occasional visiting faculty, MFA students, undergraduates, and a large extended community of alumni and friends. You can read about all of them here. Students in our MFA Program work intensively with our faculty in regular individual tutorials and in small workshops. The Oregon MFA privileges the workshop, integrating concentrated time for writing with craft seminars and reading tutorials. You'll hear our program is not for the faint of heart. It isn't—and we're proud of that. We hope to offer our students the rigorous apprenticeship we undertook with our own teachers. Our undergraduate curriculum offers introductory, intermediate, and advanced writing courses in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Highlights of our undergraduate offerings include a Minor in Creative Writing and the Kidd Tutorial Program, a yearlong, intensive writing course for the most talented young writers.
			In Memoriam
	John Haislip (1925 - 2011)
	George Hitchcock (1914 - 2010)
	Myles Brand (1942 - 2009)

SPOTLIGHT

	04/21/12: Sarah Hulse (Fiction MFA 2012) named 2012-2013 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing's James C. McCreight Fellow. Congratulations, Sarah!
	04/12: Lantern Review Blog : "A Conversation with Garrett Hongo" Poem-A-Day : "Holiday in Honolulu" The Asian-American Literary Review -- IIP Digital / US Embassy (article) -- Image & Word Symposium (group photo)
	02/27/12: Garrett Hongo will be reading at the Library of Congress on April 13 and serving on a panel for the Edgar P. Richardson Symposium at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallary on April 14. In May, he will be Poet-in-Residence at La Macina San Cresci in Greve, Italy and a guest Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Florence.
	12/21/11: Poetry Daily features two poems by Geri Doran from her new release, Sanderlings.
	Nov 2011: Major Jackson (UO CRWR MFA '99) and Gary Clark (UO CRWR MFA '92) at the Jackson Poetry Prize celebration at the Yale Club. Major Jackson is Associate Professor of English at the University of Vermont. Gary Clark is Literary Director of the Vermont Studio Center. The 2011 Jackson Poetry Prize recipient is James Richardson. Richardson was selected by three esteemed judges—poets Mark Doty, Rita Dove, and Gerald Stern. Richardson serves as thesis director to Sonya Posmentier (UO CRWR MFA '99), a PhD candidate in English/Comp Lit at Princeton.
	10/13/11: UO CRWR MFA and former Associate Professor Chang-rae Lee and his wife, Michelle Branca Lee (UO, M.Arch.), attend White House State Dinner hostedy by President and Mrs. Obama for President Lee of South Korea.
	10/03/11: Poetry Daily features "Waimeo-of-the-Dead" from Garrett Hongo's new release, Coral Road, as its poem-of-the-day.
	09/27/11: Professor Garrett Hongo's new book, Coral Road, is just out from Knopf! Congratulations, Garrett!
	07/30/11: Assistant Professor Geri Doran's new book, Sanderlings, is just out from Tupelo Press! Congratulations, Geri!
	Michelle Peñaloza (Poetry MFA 2011) is highlighted in the Lantern Review Blog regarding the origins and process of making her poem.
	Elyse Fenton (Poetry MFA 2007) 2011 Texas Institute of Letters Winner, Bob Bush Memorial Award for First Book of Poetry
	Zonde Zinke (MFA Student - Fiction) 2011 Margaret McBride Lehrman Fellowship
	Sarah Hulse (MFA Student - Fiction) 2010 Willow Springs Fiction Prize Winner
	Lory Bedikian (Poetry MFA 2002) 2010 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry Winner
	Professor David Bradley appears on 60-Minutes to discuss the recent controversy regarding Huckleberry Finn and "the N-word."
	Professor Ehud Havazelet's short story "Gurov in Manhattan" to appear in The Best American Short Stories 2011.