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January 15, 2016

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Colgate University’s Department of English is currently accepting submissions for the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing . The fellowship is intended for writers completing their first books. Fellows will be expected to teach one creative writing course each semester and will give a public reading from the work in progress. They will also receive a stipend of $38,500 plus travel expenses. Applicants should submit a cover letter, a resume, three letters of recommendation (at least one of which should address the candidate’s abilities as a teacher), and a maximum of 30 double-spaced manuscript pages of prose or 20 single-sided pages of poetry.

Deadline: February 1, 2016

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The Benefits of the University-Based Creative Writing Fellowship

Sarah katz | september 2015.

You’ve turned in your thesis and graduated from an MFA program in creative writing. OK, now what? Maybe your book isn’t finished, and continuing work as an English composition adjunct wouldn’t give you the means nor space and time necessary to complete it. You could apply for a competitive grant (a   National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship , for example) or writer-in-residence program, but maybe you’re also serious about furthering your career in either teaching or arts administration at the University level, and you don’t have the experience.

In comes the academic creative writing fellowship, which is designed to support recent creative writing graduates with the resources to develop their writing while continuing to immerse themselves in a University community.

Aspects of the Academic Creative Writing Fellowship

These one- to two-year fellowships at   Bucknell ,   Colgate ,   Kenyon College ,   Stanford University ,   Williams College ,   University of Wisconsin-Madison , and others, offer emerging writers who have recently graduated with either an MA, MFA, or PhD in creative writing with office space and time to work on their book, an opportunity to teach creative writing, and a generous stipend.

However, there are significant differences between fellowship programs. Bucknell, for instance, offers its fellows a $20,000 stipend, instructorship in the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and a year of office space to complete a book—but also requires twenty hours of administrating the   Stadler Center for Poetry   and/or serving as associate editor of   West Branch ,   Bucknell’s renowned literary journal published three times a year. Stadler Fellows thus spend much time fulfilling responsibilities outside of their writing, which may or may not appeal to prospective applicants. Other fellowship programs, like Colgate’s and Wisconsin’s, require fewer responsibilities, and therefore provide fellows with ample unstructured time that, depending on the individual’s level of self-accountability, could either benefit or hinder his or her writing. Applicants should reflect on these different aspects of the academic creative writing fellowship while researching potential programs.

For Chet’la Sebree, Bucknell’s 2014–2015 Stadler Fellow, the wide-ranging responsibilities of the Stadler fellowship allowed her not only to complete her book, but also to discover the potential career avenues available to her. Prior to her position, she worked as a full-time administrative assistant and part-time composition instructor at American University in Washington, DC, and was “completely burnt out at the end of the day...[with] no space in my life for the poems.”

“I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted out of my life—if I wanted to teach composition, if I wanted to be a full time admin, or if I wanted something different—so I began to apply for fellowships…. The Stadler Fellowship caught my attention mostly because it gave me the chance to immerse myself in many ways…. The Fellowship gave me the opportunity to have lots of different irons in the fire.”

Sebree arrived at Bucknell with a book-in-progress, and has started a new book as well. She also continues to benefit from the MFA community at American University.

“It’s really a worthwhile experience…. Although I’ve moved three hours north of my MFA community, I continue to have a relationship with some of the faculty members. In fact, at least year’s and this year’s AWP Conference, I have been invited to be on panels with my MFA faculty members, which is both an honor and a pleasure.”

Colgate University’s program offers two prose writers a generous stipend of $37,500 plus travel expenses and health and life insurance, a public reading, and the opportunity to teach one creative writing course per semester, but no other responsibilities. For Chelsea Biondolillo, one of the two 2014–2015 Olive B. O’Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, the substantial quantities of time, which she “initially foundered” until she “figured out a system,” challenged her to seek opportunities for self-improvement. With only three hours of office hours, a few hours of grading each week, and one class to teach, Biondolillo was mostly left to her own devices, which meant she needed to cultivate self-discipline to ensure she was making the most of her time to write.

“But in this way, too, the fellowship was immensely helpful,” Biondolillo said. “I’ll have to figure out how to balance writing and a day job, wherever it may be, from here on out. Now I have a better handle on what does and doesn’t foster my productivity.”

Furthermore, the opportunity to teach creative writing to undergraduate students at Colgate can support one’s development as a writer; teaching creative writing fosters an enhanced understanding of one’s own writing process. “It was an incredible opportunity to see the ways that a teaching career could enrich my writing practice,” Biondolillo said, “and some of the potential pitfalls, too—one can be departmental/initiative/taskforce-meetinged around the clock, and if the writing isn’t coming easily, it is a sneaky way to procrastinate.”

While at Colgate, Biondolillo finalized a collection of lyric essays,   Ologies , that won Etching Press’ prose chapbook contest this past February. (Learn more about Biondolillo’s chapbook in this interview with   Speaking of Marvels Press .) Biondolillo also began a book about vultures, “which combines travel, memoir, conservation, and natural history,” and which is still in progress. The fellowship “solidified her resolve” to teach, and since the position ended she has been teaching writing workshops at ApiaryLit.org while actively looking for tenure-track positions.

For Javier Zamora, the other Olive B. O’Connor Fellow, Colgate wasn’t just a space to write and teach; it was also the perfect place to explore issues pertinent to writers of color and engage in active literary citizenship. “The size of the campus and…. student protests calling for a diverse campus were the main reasons I felt I was included into the campus community. By community, I mean the faculty of color and students of color specifically.”

Still, Zamora laments that these fellowships are few and far between, not to mention extremely competitive. “It’s a big privilege, but the hard part is that there are only a handful of such opportunities in the US…. I hope writers and creative writing directors can advocate for more opportunities, to advocate for the importance of writing.”

The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, like Colgate, also offers ample time and space to five fellows in the genres of fiction and poetry each year, which includes a stipend of $30,000, health benefits, and teaching intermediate or advanced undergraduate creative writing. In addition, Wisconsin Institute Fellows select the recipients of the annual Brittingham and Felix Pollack Prizes in Poetry, the undergraduate writing contests, and the Institute’s Fellowship for the following year. All applicants for the fellowship must be “emerging,” with at most only one full-length book of creative writing in print.

Wisconsin stresses supporting   emerging   writers in an effort to help combat the difficulties of finding financially viable opportunities in academia post-MFA. “Considering the growth of MFA programs over the last few decades, as well as the difficulties of the academic job market, we desperately need to expand post-MFA support across the country,” said the Wisconsin Institute’s director, Amaud Johnson, in an email interview. “In general, we need to direct more resources to the arts at every level of education.”

The stipulation is that only those who have completed an MFA or PhD   in creative writing   can apply for the fellowship. “Even if you have a PhD in English, took graduate-level writing workshops, and wrote a creative dissertation, we still cannot offer you a fellowship if your degree is not specifically in creative writing,” the guidelines read.

Johnson believes that such fellowships supply essential support needed for fellows to develop as writers and advance professionally. “Support is key, and it’s our philosophy that writers flourish when given the room to respond to their instincts…. This experience provides an important foundation for a future in teaching, but it also helps emerging writers understand what they have to contribute to beginning writers.”

But some fellows already had teaching careers that they left to pursue an academic creative writing fellowship program. Cynthia Marie Hoffman, author of the poetry collections   Paper Doll Fetus   (Persea Books, 2014) and   Sightseer,   winner of the 2010 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry (Persea Books, 2011), was teaching full-time as a term assistant professor at George Mason University when she received the Diane Middlebook Fellowship in Poetry at Wisconsin in 2004.

“I was teaching four sections of freshman composition the fall semester of that year at Mason. I was hardly writing a thing. But the fellowship was going to allow me to write… and let me teach a whole class of just poetry and nothing else…. And I did believe that becoming a better writer, which the fellowship would enable me to do, would mean I would get a better teaching job.”

But Hoffman never returned to academia, preferring instead to work at a publishing services firm, and later, at an electrical engineering consulting firm, where she has now worked for eight years.

“As much as I loved, and probably would still love, teaching, it’s always been about the writing.... If I had continued to actively seek returning to academia after my fellowship year, I might have found that the fellowship credentials helped me land a teaching position. But as it stands, as far removed from academia as I am, I think what the fellowship primarily awarded me was permission to take myself seriously as a poet. And that continues to drive my creative work each and every day.”

Ultimately, a fellowship is whatever you make it: whether you’re someone who needs plentiful, unstructured time to write, or you’re looking for opportunities in publishing, arts administration, or teaching, there’s a creative writing fellowship for you out there. But—a caveat—the fellowship shouldn’t be thought of us an entrance into some exclusive club.

“It’s dangerous when we begin to think of fellowships as some kind of creative writing pedigree,” Johnson of the Wisconsin Institute said. “We hope our fellows become successful writers, but the individual defines ambition. One book, five books, honorable mention or a Pulitzer, we see our fellows as equal members of our community.”

Sarah Katz   is Publications Assistant at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. She has an MFA from American University, and she writes book reviews and poetry. Her reviews appear or are forthcoming at   Heavy Feather Review ,   NANO Fiction , and the   Ploughshares   blog, and her poetry at   District Lit ,   jmww ,   MiPoesias ,   RHINO , and others. She received the 2015 District Lit Poetry Prize for her poem, “The Beginning of Prayer.”

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‘Red Wedding’: Storied Stanford Creative Writing Program Laying Off Lecturers

The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their “original intent” as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there’s a “peasants and lords issue” in the program.

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Stanford University is laying off its current Jones Lecturers.

Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the “red wedding” in Game of Thrones —a massacre of characters by their supposed allies amid what had been billed as a celebratory feast.

Last Wednesday, a dean, a senior associate dean and a co-director of Stanford’s storied and popular creative writing program held a Zoom meeting with the program’s 23 Jones Lecturers, according to some of those lecturers, who were chosen from the ranks of those who have held the university’s prestigious Stegner Fellowship for writers.

The university leaders complimented the Jones Lecturers over Zoom. “They praised us to the moon,” Tom Kealey, a lecturer for two decades, told Inside Higher Ed . “Endlessly” praised was how Edward Porter, a lecturer of eight years, put it.

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Then, Kealey said, the leaders announced they would all be losing their jobs within the next two academic years. “The worst part is to be praised while you’re being fired,” Porter said. According to notes he took of the meeting, Nicholas Jenkins, the program’s co-director, said something to the effect of “you’re excellent, but others will be excellent in the future.”

There was an added sense of betrayal. The deans—Debra Satz, dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences, and Gabriella Safran, senior associate dean of humanities and arts—said this wasn’t their decision, according to Kealey. In Medium posts on the ordeal, he wrote that they said it came from “the senior professors of creative writing.”

“These are literally our teaching colleagues of the last five to 15 years,” Kealey wrote. “And they decided in a previous secret meeting to fire all 23 of their junior colleagues.” In another post, he wrote that “it was only the MALE professors who voted to fire us.” ( Inside Higher Ed reached out Tuesday to some of the male creative writing professors on Tuesday, but received no responses.)

In an unsigned announcement last Wednesday on the university’s website, Stanford said it is returning to the “original intent of the Jones Lectureships: one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for a limited term.” That announcement said the recommendation came from faculty members on a “Working Group of Creative Writing Academic Council faculty,” but it didn’t name them.

Satz, Safran and Jenkins said in an emailed joint statement to Inside Higher Ed that "this change will again allow Stegner Fellows the opportunity to apply to be Jones Lecturers once they have completed their fellowships. Jones Lecturers will have one-year appointments with the possibility of renewal for up to four additional years."

While it’s no longer rare for non-tenure-track faculty members to be laid off by higher education institutions facing budget woes, Stanford is a wealthy institution and creative writing is, by its own admission, a popular program.

“We have a large number of fully enrolled classes, many with significant waitlists and some where the waitlists are longer than the enrollment roster,” Jenkins said in a February 2023 article on the university’s website. He also said, “We’re in a remarkable period of hiring during which we’re fortunate enough to be bringing to campus an extraordinarily talented array of significant artists and teachers.”

But the lecturers say they’re the ones teaching most of the creative writing classes for undergraduates, and that their years of experience improve teaching. Kealey said some lecturers teach five classes a year; others teach four. He wrote on Medium of the senior creative writing professors that “the 10 of them … taught 13 undergraduate classes last year (and 19 overall, less than two classes taught per professor).”

The leaders said during the Zoom meeting the decision wasn’t about money, according to Porter. “It’s maddening to have outstanding enrollment and be phased out anyway,” he said. While the university has said it wants to simply return the Jones Lectureships to the short stints they used to be, Kealey suggests the tenured professors in his department had other motives.

“I think there’s a peasants and lords issue here,” Kealey said.

A Long Time Coming?

In 1946, Wallace Stegner, who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for Angle of Repose , founded Stanford’s creative writing program. The Stegner Fellowships are named in his honor.

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E. H. Jones, who had an oil fortune, funded the fellowships and also established the connected Jones Lectureships, according to the university’s announcement from last week. It said these were meant to be “limited, fixed-year teaching appointments, allowing exceptional Stegner Fellows some time and support to prepare a manuscript for publication, hone their teaching skills and transition to a longer-term teaching career elsewhere.”

But “over time this framework of term-limited appointments was not followed,” the university said. It did not say when that change occurred. It might have had something to do with Eavan Boland.

Boland, an Irish poet, led the creative writing program for 20 years until her sudden death in 2020. “Eavan was just a fierce defender of the program,” Kealey said. He said her death “was a great loss to all of us.”

When Boland joined the program, Kealey said, it had maybe 20 or 25 classes. But Boland wanted every student who so desired to be able to take a creative writing class. Kealey said lecturers went to residence halls in early years to speak with students about the program. Over about 15 years, Kealey said, the program grew to offer about 120 classes.

Porter said Boland “developed a large cadre of about 20 to 25 lecturers.” Even though they were on one-year contracts, Porter said, they kept getting renewed. He said it’s true that Boland did move the lectureships away from their original intent—but that it was beneficial for students, teaching and the program.

“There are a lot of human skills to playing this game, and those don’t come in a year,” Porter said. “We have letters, testimonials from students about how much we’ve meant to them. We’re also very available to them—we talk to them outside of class, there’s a sense of continuing mentorship if they want it.”

Now, Porter said, “there is at least the appearance” of the university creating “artificial scarcity,” suggesting there’s no room for the new, younger Stegner Fellows writers to get a leg up by becoming Jones Lecturers “because these crusty old folks are hogging up all the real estate.” Safran, the senior associate dean, said, per Porter’s meeting notes, that “in some years few or no Stegners were able to advance.”

Kealey said, “There’s no shortage of space for new Stegner Fellows to be hired into the Jones Lectureships, but, I don’t know, the professors wanted to do a scorched earth with this, and that’s what they’ve done.”

The lecturers said they pushed for, and received, raises from the university in September 2023. “Exactly a year later we’re all fired,” so “connect the dots here,” Kealey said. “I think the lords didn’t like that—didn’t like the peasants speaking up.”

Porter talked about “balancing one set of values against the other.” He said the tenured or tenure-track “creative writing faculty doesn’t teach many classes and many of them are not involved—they don’t care about the undergraduates. It’s not their job to care; it’s their job to write books, be famous and raise money, and that’s very necessary.”

And part of the purpose of the Jones Lectureship program is to give new writers a step up. But Porter worries about the other side of the equation being lost. “It’s our job to care about the undergrads,” he said.

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Fellowships

  Who wouldn’t want a writing fellowship? A year or two with minimal professional obligations and time to write. Most of these opportunities are fiercely competitive—not surprisingly—and application costs are a consideration. But many people apply year after year, with the hopes of landing one of these prestigious opportunities.

We’ve gathered together a few of the top fellowships for emerging writers, organized by deadline. Some of these fellowships require teaching; others require some sort of outreach into the community. Best of luck if you choose to apply!

  The George Bennett Fellowship Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH Eligibility: A manuscript in process Deadline: November 30, 2017

Phillips Exeter Academy offers one fellowship per academic year. The fellow is provided a stipend of $15,260 as well as housing and meals. In return for this, the fellow is expected to be available to students interested in writing, as well as students in English classes and literary organizations. Exeter expects that the manuscript in process will be completed by the year’s end.

Wallace Stegner Fellowship Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA Eligibility: None Deadline: December 1, 2017

Stanford offers ten two-year fellowships: five in poetry and five in fiction. Fellows are provided with a $26,000 stipend, and tuition and health insurance are provided. Fellows participate in a weekly workshop with faculty—this is a full-time commitment—and must live close enough to Stanford to attend workshop, readings, and other events.

Fine Arts Work Center Writing Fellowship Provincetown, MA Eligibility: Fellows cannot have a contract or have published a full-length work Deadline: December 1, 2017

The Work Center provides ten seven-month writing fellowships each year: five for poets, and five for fiction writers. Fellows are provided with living/work space and a monthly stipend of $750. As the Center also hosts visual artists, there is a vibrant community of artists living and working in the same space. The Center actively seeks applicants from diverse cultural backgrounds.

The Steinbeck Fellows Program San José State University, San José, CA Eligibility: Writer has had some success but not published extensively Deadline: January 2, 2018

San José State University offers two to three one-year fellowships in creative writing, not including poetry. The fellows need to reside in the San José area during the academic year; are provided with a $10,000 stipend; have the opportunity to interact with other writers, faculty, and students; and give a public reading.

The James Merrill Writer-in-Residence Program Stonington, CT Eligibility: Open Deadline: January 15, 2018

Several residencies per year are offered by this program: one residency for 4.5 months in the winter/spring, and three or four shorter residencies in the fall. Writers live in the former home of James Merrill; present a reading of their work-in-progress; and contribute to the local writing community.

Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Eligibility: Recently completed MA, MFA or PhD; need a year to complete first book Deadline: February 1, 2018

The O’Connor fellowship is given to two writers who need a year to complete their first book. Fellows spend the academic year at Colgate, teaching an undergraduate creative writing workshop each semester and presenting a public reading of their work-in-progress. A stipend of $40,500 for 2017-18 was provided, along with travel expenses; health and life insurance are also provided.

Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI Eligibility: MFA or PhD; applicants must have published no more than one book Deadline: March 1, 2018

The Institute offers up to five nine-month fellowships each year: two in fiction, two in poetry and one in either discipline. The fellowship comes with a $30,000 stipend, health benefits and a one course per semester teaching assignment in undergraduate creative writing. Fellows are expected to live in Madison; to hold no other teaching, study or fellowship obligations; and to participate in the life of the writing community in Madison. Fellows also give one public reading and participate in choosing the next year’s fellows.

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2024-2025 University Catalog Minor Requirements Creative writing minors take 6 total courses. 3 creative writing workshops (ENGL 217 can only be taken once) 3 literature classes (two of which must be at the upper level) Workshop Courses ENGL 217    may be taken only once. Instructor permission is necessary for admission to creative writing courses at the 300 and 400 levels. Three workshop courses chosen from among the following: ENGL 217 - Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing ENGL 374 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop ENGL 377 - Fiction Writing Workshop ENGL 378 - Poetry Writing Workshop ENGL 477 - Advanced Workshop GPA Requirement Passing grades are required in a minimum of five courses, with a minimum GPA of 2.00 averaged over all courses taken in the department. English and Creative Writing Department For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the  English and Creative Writing Department    catalog page. M.F.A. in Creative Writing The Master of Fine Arts at West Virginia University is a three-year program that combines work in a primary genre and at least one other genre with course offerings in literature, pedagogy and professional writing and editing. Genres include fiction, nonfiction and poetry. All Master of Fine Arts students receive a full tuition waiver and an assistantship, which includes a stipend valued at $16,750.  Our alumni have gone on to further graduate study in English, to careers in editing and publishing and to positions in academia. They have received awards such as the Olive B. O’Connor Fellowship at Colgate and the Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, won national prizes like the Iowa Award for Poetry and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize for Nonfiction and published books with Autumn House Press, Carnegie Mellon University, 42 Miles Press, Ohio University Press, University of Georgia Press, University Press of New England and William Morrow/Harper Collins, among others. WVU’s MFA graduates have published in hundreds of literary journals, including prestigious venues such as  AGNI ,  Southern Review ,  Gettysburg Review ,  Field ,  Prairie Schooner ,  Tar River Poetry ,  Ninth Letter ,  Northwest Review ,  Missouri Review ,  Hayden’s Ferry Review ,  Sewanee Review,   The Journal ,  32 Poems ,  Georgetown Review ,  Controlled Burn ,  Colorado Review, Pank, Malahat Review ,  Mid-American Review ,  The New York Times, Paste, Times,  Chelsea ,  Washington Square ,  Laurel Review ,  Slant ,  New Orleans Review , and in the anthology   Layers of Possibility: Healing Poetry . Recent MFA students have won Intro Prizes sponsored by the Association of Writers and Writing Programs and the GreenTower Press’s chapbook prize and have published book-length collections of poetry and fiction. Recent graduates have won honors such as the Iowa Poetry Prize and the Walt Whitman Award.   GET INVOLVED All MFA students in creative writing are fully funded and teach composition, with opportunities to teach creative writing in the third year. Our students engage in community outreach through the Appalachian Prison Book Project, a program that provides incarcerated people with reading materials; edit Hellbender Magazine , a national literary journal; assist with the West Virginia Writers’ Workshop; and help maintain WVU's Council of Writers. They also participate in our monthly reading series, MFA@123 (pictured above). Our program hosts readings by recognized writers, including Jayne Anne Phillips, Camille Rankine, Elizabeth Graver and Geffrey Davis. We also conduct the annual Sturm Writer-in-Residence program, a week-long program that hosts an author at WVU to give a reading and lead workshops with graduate students. Recent Sturm Writers-in-Residence have included Claire Vaye Watkins, Valerie Sayers, Oliver de la Paz, Paul Lisicky and Susan Straight. Graduate Catalog Description   Graduate Student Handbook WVU’s MFA faculty members, Mark Brazaitis, Mary Ann Samyn, Glenn Taylor, Christa Parravani, Jenny Johnson and Brian Broome, have published more than 25 books and have won many prestigious prizes and honors:   National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship  MacDowell Fellowship  Whiting Award  Kirkus Prize  National Book Critics Circle Award (finalist)   Iowa Short Fiction Award   Yaddo Fellowship  Field Poetry Prize  Hodder Fellowship  Lambda Literary Award  42 Miles Press Poetry Prize  Richard Sullivan Prize  Devil's Kitchen Reading Award in Prose  Gival Press Novel Award  Pushcart Prize  Distinguished stories and essays in  Best American  anthologies  Autumn House Press Full-Length Fiction Prize  Juniper Prize  George Garrett Fiction Award   The Journal Prize   Kent State University Press/Wick Chapbook Prize     Books for a Better Life (nominee)  Amazon Spotlight Pick  New York Times  Editor’s Choice  NEH-National Endowment for the Humanities   Creative Writing Minor Departments & Programs Department of English and Creative Writing Academic Program This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2024-25 . Minor Requirements Creative writing minors take 6 total courses. 3 creative writing workshops (ENGL 217 can only be taken once) 3 literature classes (two of which must be at the upper level) Workshop Courses ENGL 217  may be taken only once. Instructor permission is necessary for admission to creative writing courses at the 300 and 400 levels. Three workshop courses chosen from among the following: ENGL 217 - Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing ENGL 374 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop ENGL 377 - Fiction Writing Workshop ENGL 378 - Poetry Writing Workshop ENGL 477 - Advanced Workshop GPA Requirement Passing grades are required in a minimum of five courses, with a minimum GPA of 2.00 averaged over all courses taken in the department. English and Creative Writing Department For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the  English and Creative Writing Department  catalog page. Colgate Calendar Past Events CANCELED - Readings by Olive B O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English CANCELED - Readings by Olive B O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English Wednesday, April 22, 2020 4:30pm to 6:30pm Share CANCELED - Readings by Olive B O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English on Facebook Share CANCELED - Readings by Olive B O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English on Twitter Share CANCELED - Readings by Olive B O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English on LinkedIn About this Event Come and listen to two creative writers, Gbenga Adesina and Annie Vitalsey, the English Department's Olive B. O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing for 2019-20. Gbenga Adesina's poems have appeared in Narrative, Prairie Schooner, Washington Square Review, Vinyl, Brittle Paper and Ploughshares. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Poets House, the Norman Mailer Center, the Fine Arts Work Centre, Provincetown, the Open Society Foundation in Goree Island, off the coast of Senegal, Callaloo at Oxford and New York University where he received his MFA and held the Starworks and Goldwater Fellowships. He was a joint winner of the 2016 Brunel International Poetry Prize, the 2017 Hugh J. Luke Award from Prairie Schooner, and the 2019 Palette Poetry Spotlight Award. Annie Vitalsey is a fiction writer whose stories have appeared in Reed Magazine, Bennington Review, Pacifica Literary Review, Menacing Hedge, Spilled Milk Magazine, Watershed Review, and elsewhere. In 2018, she was a Virginia G. Piper Global Residency Fellow and received her first Pushcart nomination. In 2019, she was also awarded a Desert Nights Teaching Fellowship. Vitalsey has an MFA from Arizona State University, and is currently working on her first novel. 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Get a free map for your website. Explore the world. Discover the beauty hidden in the maps. Map graphics revolution.™ How is the distance calculated? To calculate the distance between St-Petersburg and Novosibirsk, the place names are converted into coordinates (latitude and longitude). The respective geographic centre is used for cities, regions and countries. To calculate the distance the Haversine formula is applied. 119 COMMENTS Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing She holds an M.F.A. in creative writing from Vanderbilt University and is the 2022-23 Olive B. O'Connor Fellow in fiction at Colgate. She was the 2021 winner of The Iowa Review Award in fiction, and her work appears in The Iowa Review, Joyland Magazine, and others. She is currently working on her first novel as well as a story collection. Department of English Department of English and Creative Writing. English study at Colgate unlocks rich opportunities for you to pursue programs involving creative work in conjunction with rigorous training in verbal analysis and interpretation. English department students and professors gather for a marathon table reading of Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost. Majors and Minors: English Major, Creative Writing Emphasis Writing workshops engage students in the dynamic process of creating their own poems, stories, novellas, essays, or memoirs. Creative writing students are also invited into a wider literary community beyond the classroom - on campus - that includes working on Colgate's student edited journal, The Portfolio, meeting writers at guest readings on campus and the possibility of giving their ... Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing Colgate University's Department of English is currently accepting submissions for the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. The fellowship is intended for writers completing their first books. Fellows will be expected to teach one creative writing course each semester and will give a public reading from the work in progress. English Major, Creative Writing Emphasis Writing workshops engage students in the dynamic process of creating their own poems, stories, novellas, essays, or memoirs. Creative writing students are also invited into a wider literary community beyond the classroom -- on campus -- that includes working on Colgate's student edited journal, The Portfolio, meeting writers at guest readings ... Academic Program in English This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2024-25. The Department of English and Creative Writing offers courses in two programs of study: 1) literature in English and 2) literature in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Students may pursue majors and minors in both these areas. Readings by Olive B. O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing, English Dept To enhance our strong program in creative writing, the Department of English established the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. This annual fellowship is designed to support writers completing their first books. It provides a generous stipend, office space, and an intellectual community for the recipients, who spend one academic year at Colgate. English and Creative Writing English and Creative Writing. The Department of English and Creative Writing offers courses in two programs of study: 1) literature in English and 2) literature in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Students may pursue majors and minors in both these areas. We welcome non-concentrators in all of our courses. Colgate University 2022-12-14 -. OLIVE B. O'CONNOR FELLOWSHIP­S. Two nine-month residencie­s at Colgate University, including a stipend of $43,750, health benefits, and travel expenses, are given annually to poets, fiction writers, or nonfiction writers. The 2023-2024 fellowship­s will be awarded to a poet and a nonfiction writer working on their first books. Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing nonfiction The selected writers will spend the academic year (late August 2024 to early May 2025) at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York. The fellows will teach one multigenre creative writing course each semester and will give a public reading from the work in progress. The fellowship carries a stipend of $55,500 plus travel expenses; health and ... Academic Fellowships for Recent Creative Writing Graduates The fellow spends the academic year at Colgate-whose creative writing department includes workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama-teaching a creative writing workshop each semester and giving a public reading of his or her work. The Fellowship carries a stipend of $25,000 plus travel expenses; health and life insurance are provided. Stanford creative writing layoffs prompt national backlash of critics Stegner, who established Stanford's creative writing program in 1946, was a literary master whose novels, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Angle of Repose," and "The Big Rock Candy ... The Benefits of the University-Based Creative Writing Fellowship The Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, like Colgate, also offers ample time and space to five fellows in the genres of fiction and poetry each year, which includes a stipend of $30,000, health benefits, and teaching intermediate or advanced undergraduate creative writing. In addition, Wisconsin Institute Fellows select the recipients of ... Creative Writing A highly prestigious Fulbright summer fellowship that provides college first-years and sophomores with the opportunity to study at US- and UK-based institutions. Provides up to $7,000 towards tuition and other college expenses. Scholars also attend a Udall Orientation in August in Tucson, AZ, and ... 'It's a tremendous honor': Ebony Lumumba receives faculty fellowship According to a news release, the fellowship program is designed to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities faculty members build and enhance creative writing programs at their schools ... Stanford creative writing program laying off lecturers The university says creative writing faculty recommended returning its Jones Lectureships to their "original intent" as short-term teaching appointments for talented writers. A lecturer of 20 years said he thinks there's a "peasants and lords issue" in the program. Some Stanford University lecturers are likening it to the "red wedding" in Game of Thrones—a massacre of ... Fellowships Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Eligibility: Recently completed MA, MFA or PhD; need a year to complete first book Deadline: February 1, 2018. The O'Connor fellowship is given to two writers who need a year to complete their first book. Fellows spend the academic year at Colgate, teaching an ... Majors and Minors: Creative Writing Minor may be taken only once. Instructor permission is necessary for admission to creative writing courses at the 300 and 400 levels. Three workshop courses chosen from among the following: ENGL 217 - Introductory Workshop in Creative Writing. ENGL 374 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop. ENGL 377 - Fiction Writing Workshop. M.F.A. in Creative Writing They have received awards such as the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship at Colgate and the Emory University Creative Writing Fellowship, won national prizes like the Iowa Award for Poetry and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Prize for Nonfiction and published books with Autumn House Press, Carnegie Mellon University, 42 Miles Press ... Creative Writing Minor Creative writing minors take 6 total courses. 3 creative writing workshops (ENGL 217 can only be taken once) 3 literature classes (two of which must be at the upper level) Workshop Courses. ENGL 217 may be taken only once. Instructor permission is necessary for admission to creative writing courses at the 300 and 400 levels. CANCELED Come and listen to two creative writers, Gbenga Adesina and Annie Vitalsey, the English Department's Olive B. O'Connor Fellows in Creative Writing for 2019-20. Gbenga Adesina's poems have appeared in Narrative, Prairie Schooner, Washington Square Review, Vinyl, Brittle Paper and Ploughshares. He has received fellowships and scholarships from the Poets House, the Norman Mailer Center, the Fine ... Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing fiction Colgate University invites applications for the Olive B. O'Connor Fellowship in Creative Writing. This year we invite applications for a fellowship in fiction. Writers who have recently completed an MFA, MA, or PhD in creative writing, and who need a year to complete their first book, are encouraged to apply. Physical Map of Novosibirsk Physical map illustrates the mountains, lowlands, oceans, lakes and rivers and other physical landscape features of Novosibirsk. Differences in land elevations relative to the sea level are represented by color. Green color represents lower elevations, orange or brown indicate higher elevations, shades of grey are used for the highest mountain ... Novosibirsk Oblast Novosibirsk — the administrative capital of Siberia, Russia's third largest city, and home to more than half of Novosibirsk Oblast's residents.; Barabinsk — a Trans-Siberian Railway town.; Berdsk — an old city and the region's second largest.; Iskitim — a small, very unpretentious, industrial city with a museum of regional studies.; Karasuk — a town on the Karasuk River near the ... Distance St-Petersburg > Novosibirsk Flight route: 1,927.35 mi (3,101.78 km) (4h 8min) The flight distance between the nearest airports St-Petersburg and Novosibirsk is 1,927.35 mi (3,101.78 km).This corresponds to an approximate flight time of 4h 8min. Similar flight routes: LED → KJA, LED → KGF, LED → TSE, LED → URC, HEL → OVB Bearing: 99.85° (E) Novosibirsk Oblast This chapter presents history, economic statistics, and federal government directories of Novosibirsk Oblast. Novosibirsk Oblast is situated in the Western Siberian Plain. assignment essay homework paper phd report resume review speech thesis