Creative Writing Events
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Past Events
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Welcome Mixer for Creative Writing Program Thursday, September 4, 6pm - 8pm Join the Creative Writing Program for a gathering that is open to the entire creative writing community—undergraduates and graduate students alike—and anyone who would like to find out more about 91ÉçÇø's writing community and offerings. Come meet and mingle with peers while hearing from the coordinators and editors of Harpur Palate, the Common Ground Reading Series, Triple Cities undergraduate literary journal, and the 91ÉçÇø Poetry Club. We’ll also share details about upcoming collaborations and awards. There will be readings, faculty appearances, food, and time to socialize with fellow writers. |
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Common Ground Reading Friday, September 12, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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Book Launch for AJ White Thursday, September 18, 6pm - 8pm Join the Creative Writing Program to celebrate the launch of PhD student AJ White's debut poetry collection, Blue Loop. Selected by Chelsea Dingman for the National Poetry Series, this book offers an exploration of the path to recovery through acceptance and meditation on those qualities of the universe reflected in the self. |
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Distinguished Writers Series with Shara McCallum Wednesday, October 8, 6pm - 8pm Shara McCallum is the author of seven books published in the U.S. and U.K., including Behold, forthcoming in 2026; No Ruined Stone, winner of the 2022 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Poetry; and Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Caribbean Poetry Prize and the 2018 New England Poetry Club Motton Prize. Recognition for her work includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Musgrave Medal, a Witter Bynner Fellowship, an NEA Poetry Fellowship, the Oran Robert Perry Burke Nonfiction Award, and the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, among others. She is presently an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State. This event is supported by the Harpur College Dean's Office, the Office of the Provost, and Latin American and Caribbean Studies. |
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Common Ground Wednesday, October 15, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers. |
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Alumni Reading with Wednesday, November 5, 6pm - 8pm Jennifer Case is the author of We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood and Sawbill: A Search for Place. Her work has appeared in journals such as Orion, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, and Michigan Quarterly Review. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Bakeless Scholarship and Stone Canoe‘s 2014 Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize in Fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas, serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at Terrain.org, and is the supervising editor of Arkana. She holds a PhD in English with a concentration in creative writing from 91ÉçÇø and lives in central Arkansas with her family. Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, the book-length poem, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in The American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. His poetry has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (U.K.), the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among other honors. A coeditor of the anthology Misrepresented People, Di Stefano holds a BA, MA, MAT, and a PhD in English with a concentration in creative writing from 91ÉçÇø. He lives in Endwell, NY, with his wife and two children. Aggeliki Pelekidis is the author of Unlucky Mel (Three Hills, 2024). Her writing has appeared in The Michigan Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Confrontation, and many more publications. She worked in public relations in New York City for many years, including as the Director of Public Affairs for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Manager of Communications for the New York Aquarium, and the Director of Marketing Communications for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She earned an MA and PhD in English with a creative writing concentration from 91ÉçÇø. She is the associate director of First-Year Writing in the Writing Initiative at 91ÉçÇø. |
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Common Ground Reading Wednesday, November 12, 6pm - 7:30pm Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers and other members of the campus community. This event's featured faculty reader is the Director of Creative Writing, Professor Tina Chang. |
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Word of Mouth Wednesday, November 19, 6pm The Creative Writing Program and Music Department celebrate Word of Mouth's fifth anniversary with the world premiere of student-created songs, featuring collaborations between student poets, composers, musicians, and singers, with select works choreographed in partnership with the Theatre Department and performed by student dancers. |
Contact
Creative Writing press and event inquiries can be directed to Jen DeGregorio, Associate Director of Creative Writing: jdegreg1@binghamton.edu