Creative Writing at the University of Oregon

	READING SERIES
	2013 - 2014 Guests
	FICTION Natalie Serber Gina Ochsner TBA	POETRY Robert Pinsky Danny Anderson TBA
	Information regarding specific dates and times will be posted as they become available. Readings are free and open to the public.

	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 the Kidd Tutorial Program and a Minor in Creative Writing.
			In Memoriam
	John Haislip (1925 - 2011)
	George Hitchcock (1914 - 2010)
	Myles Brand (1942 - 2009)

SPOTLIGHT

	05/02/2013: Gary Clark (Poetry MFA '92), named President of Vermont Studio Center. Congratulations, Gary!
		04/22/2013: Eugene Gloria (Poetry MFA '92), author of My Favorite Warlord (Penguin Books, 2012), is among the five winners of the 2013 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award. Gloria joins former UO faculty awardees Chang-rae Lee and Reetika Vazirani in receiving this honor. Congratulations!
	04/2013: Congratulations to Major Jackson (Poetry MFA '99) for being awarded a 2013-2014 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
		03/15/2013: Congratulations to Felecia Caton Garcia (Poetry MFA '98) for Say That (University of New Mexico Press).
	03/2013: Narrative magazine names "Nemecia" by Kirstin Valdez Quade (Fiction MFA '09) as the First Place winner in its Spring 2012 Story Contest. Her prize-winning story is included in Best American Short Stories, 2013.
	03/2013: Brenden Willey (Fiction MFA '09) named Wallace Stegner Fellow for 2013-2014. Brenden joins past Stegner Fellows from the UO Creative Writing Program: Kirsten Valdez Quade (Fiction MFA '09), Keetje Kuipers (Poetry MFA '05), and Shimon Tanaka (Fiction MFA '05). Congratulations, Brenden!
	03/2013: Alexi Pappas, who currently studies with Professors Garrett Hongo and Jason Brown in the Creative Writing Program, is known by fans of Oregon cross country as the young woman who burst on to the scene in Fall 2012 and became a key contributor on a team that won its first conference title since 1995 and claimed its first NCAA Championship since 1987. Read more.
		02/01/2013: Congratulations to Joshua Robbins (Poetry MFA '03) for Praise Nothing (University of Arkansas Press).
	01/2013: Literary Arts announced the recipients of the 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowships to writers and to publishers. The judges named eight writers and two publishers to receive grants of $2,500 each. Congratulations to our own Jessa Heath (Poetry MFA 2013) - recipient of The Oregon Poetry Community Fellowship.
		01/2013: Congratulations to Erdag Göknar (Fiction MFA '93) for his new release, Orhan Pamuk, Secularism and Blasphemy (the first critical study of all of Orhan Pamuk's novels, including the early untranslated work). Göknar is Assistant Professor of Turkish Studies at Duke University and the award-winning translator of Orhan Paumk's My Name is Red.
	01/17/13: Poetry Daily features Professor Geri Doran's "No Edge, No Falling."
		As part of the MFA application season, LitBridge, a new online resource for writers, collected profiles from the perspective of students currently attending some of the most prestigious MFA programs. Click here to review responses provided by our own Julia Dasbach (Poetry MFA '13) and Sarah Gurman (Fiction MFA '13).
	08/01/12: Congratulations to Keetje Kuipers (Poetry MFA 2006) on her new appointment as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Auburn University in Alabama. Keetje also has poems recently published in or forthcoming from Jubilat and Orion. Her first published creative nonfiction piece, "The Hunders," will appear in the Winter 2012 issue of the Gettysburg Review (an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress about the seven-months wilderness writing residency in a cabin in southern Oregon).
	Jill Leininger (Poetry MFA 1999)'s collection, "The Way I'll Leave You," was selected by Judge Mark Doty as the winner of the 2011 BLOOM Chapbook Contest.
	04/21/12: Sarah Hulse (Fiction MFA 2012) named 2012-2013 Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing's James C. McCreight Fellow. Congratulations, Sarah!
	04/2012: 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 Gallery 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.
	11/2011: Major Jackson (Poetry MFA 1999) and Gary Clark (Poetry MFA 1992) 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 the White House State Dinner hosted by President and First Lady 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.