Introductions are often bland and full of unintended egotisms. How do I start this blog? Hi. My name is Daniel Tharp. I am a student attending the MFA Creative Writing Program at the University of Notre Dame, but that doesn’t seem right, too stuffy, too formal. With that kind of introduction you miss the […]
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A Film Screening: Toxi*City
Posted in Events on Mar 23rd, 2016
Come one, come all to the Debartolo Performing Arts Center where Roderick Coover and Scott Rettberg will present their film Toxi•City on March 23, 2016! The showing begins at 8:00 PM and everyone is welcome! Toxi•City is a combinatory of narrative segments and historical anecdotes chronicling deaths from Hurricane Sandy. In over one hour of […]
Paul Cunningham received his M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame last May, and was the recipient of the 2015 Sparks Prize Fellowship! He will read his work for the Notre Dame community on Wednesday, February 10, 7:30 pm at the Hammes Bookstore. Come prepared to have your socks knocked off! […]
Come out to Geddes Hall Café on Wednesday, December 2, 2015 at 7:30 PM to hear the work of three 2nd-year MFA candidates: fiction writers Evan Harris and Kyle Muntz, and poet Ae Hee Lee. These writers span the spectrum in their interests and preoccupations: Evan Harris writes fiction and essays. His work-in-progress includes a […]
The fourth event of the Creative Writing Program’s Fall Reading Series is coming up! Orlando Ricardo Menes, poet, translator and Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame, will be reading at the Hammes Bookstore, Wednesday October 14, 7:30 p.m. The reading is free and open to all and if you enjoy listening to enchanting, […]
Come hear 4 writers read their work in one night!!! Michael Martone will be reading at the Hammes Bookstore on October 7th, 7:30 pm, along with Joyelle McSweeney, Kelcey Parker and Valerie Sayers, in celebration of Winesburg, Indiana: A Fork River Anthology (2015). Winesburg, Indiana is “an anthology of short fiction by multiple authors [that] […]
Join the Creative Writing Department for a fiction reading by our very own Valerie Sayers and visiting author Liam Callanan! Both writers will be reading from new books – THE POWERS and LISTEN. The reading is free and open to the public – all are welcome! – and takes place on September 30th, 7:30 pm, […]
Want to hear a writer read some cool fiction? Want to hang out with writers and poets of all different stripes? Then come to the Hammes Bookstore at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 9! Jac Jemc, visiting professor of fiction at the ND Creative Writing program and prize-winning author of two collections, will read from her […]
Eleven wondrous voices, one literary night. Graduating students of the MFA in Creative Writing at Notre Dame (four poets, along with six prose writers) will be reading five-minute selections from their final thesis. Join us as we celebrate their accomplishments and wish them more to come on Thursday April 23rd, 2015 at 7:00 PM […]
Poetry Slam
Posted in Events on Mar 18th, 2015
Do you like excitement? Do you like poetry? Then come on down to the Snite Museum of Art for the 3rd Annual WHAM! BAM! POETRY SLAM! on Thursday, March 19, 2015 from 5:00–7:30pm. The poetry slam will consist of three rounds, with winners announced at the end of the night. Poets will read up to […]