19 posts tagged

Creative Writing

  

So you’re in an MFA program–now what? A guest post by MFA Candidate Ariel N. Banayan

September 17, 2019 by Ariel N. Banayan | English

Fear and Loathing in an MFA Before I started the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University, my understanding of an MFA student wasn’t accurate. I imagined stereotypical nerds dropping words like preposterous, obfuscation, pellucidity, and sesquipedalian into day-to-day conversations to prove a point about their fancy craft, whatever that meant. Honestly, I knew

Pub(lishing) Crawl A guest post by MFA Candidate Matt Goldman

April 9, 2019 by | Events

Mark your calendars for Tuesday, April 16th! Chapman University is hosting its annual Pub(lishing) Crawl in the Center for American War Letters in Leatherby Libraries. No, we won’t be drinking our way from O’Hara’s to Chapman Crafted at this year’s pub crawl. Instead, the Pub(lishing) Crawl is a jam-packed event where successful writers talk with

Facing Fears as a Writer

October 8, 2018 by | News

By Sam Risak Dual MA/MFA Student This fall, I moved from Florida and started the MFA in Creative Writing program at Chapman University. I’m starting to get settled here, but I’m not settling as a writer. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Only a few weeks into my first semester, and I’ve gained insight from

Professor Alicia Kozameh’s European Book Tour 259 Leaps, the Last Immortal

November 29, 2017 by ALICIA KOZAMEH | News

Author and Creative Writing Professor Alicia Kozameh has returned from a European book tour where the German translation of her novel 259 Leaps, the Last Immortal (259 Sprünge, Salto Immortale Inbegriffen) was just released, and presented in several cities. In Austria she held bilingual readings in Klagenfurt (Europahaus), Graz (Afro-Asiatisches Institut) and in Vienna. This

John Fowles Literary Series announces spring 2015 author readings

January 26, 2015 by | Events

The spring 2015 version of Chapman University’s John Fowles Literary Series , presented by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing in Wilkinson College for the Humanities and Social Sciences , will focus on three noted authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina — Ajla Terzic and Kenan Trebincevic — as well as on internationally acclaimed writers

Reina Woods ’12, a recent Creative Writing graduate, tells her story

September 12, 2013 by | News

Reina Woods ’12, a recent Creative Writing graduate, tells her story and her experience at Chapman University. After graduating, Reina moved to Los Angeles and keeps her self busy by working on a pilot along with her YouTube channel. She has also written an award-winning script as well as working as a writer and correspondent

2012 Lectio Magistralis – Why Literature Can Save Us

September 20, 2012 by | Events

Chapman University and Wilkinson College is please to announce the 5th Annual Lectio Magistralis (The Chancellor’s Premier Lecture Series) “Why Literature Can Save Us,” with Professor of Creative Writing in English, Richard Bausch. Richard Bausch is the author of eleven novels and eight collections of stories, including In The Night Season, Hello To The

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