Makena Metz (Dual MA English / MFA Creative Writing ‘23) has been awarded the highest honor for graduate students at Chapman University, The James L. Doti Outstanding Graduate Student Award. The award is conferred annually to the outstanding graduating master’s and doctoral students with distinguished records of academic accomplishment, scholarship, and/or service. The names of the award recipients are
Dr. Anna Leahy (English) was recently awarded a MacDowell Fellowship after being selected from a pool of nearly 3,000 applicants. Leahy is the director of the MFA in Creative Writing program and the director of Tabula Poetica, the Center for Poetry at Chapman University. MacDowell fellowships are fully funded writing residencies, lasting between two and
Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences recently hosted the Conference on the American Short Story in celebration of the art of short fiction. The conference was composed of several events including a short fiction workshop led by four local authors, dramatic readings of the authors’ short fiction work, a Literary (Pub)lishing Crawl,
We are proud to announce Tryphena Yeboah, MFA ‘21, is the national winner of the 2020-2021 WAGS/ProQuest Distinguished Master’s Thesis and/or Final Master’s Capstone Project Award in the Creative, Visual and Performing Arts category! In her award-winning thesis, “First Light,” Yeboah details her attempt to “let go of the gaze that accompanies the myth and
The Academy of American Poets recently announced that Wilkinson College’s Presidential Fellow in Creative Writing Carolyn Forché has been elected its newest Chancellor, a distinction shared by just 120 poets since 1946. Past chancellors have included renowned poets W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Claudia Rankine, and Adrienne Rich. Forché, born in Detroit, Michigan, is
Montéz Louria (‘22, Dual MA English/MFA Creative Writing) and Santa-Victoria Perez (‘22, Dual MA English/MFA Creative Writing) have been honored as 2022 Emerging Writers by the Literary Women of Long Beach. The mission of Literary Women of Long Beach is to make accessible to a wide range of readers the work of outstanding contemporary authors
Jamaican-born Mariana Samuda (‘18 MFA Creative Writing) has published work in Atticus Review, Moko Magazine, Headway Quarterly, and Hoot Review. The Voice of Wilkinson had the opportunity to speak to Samuda about her new book, Five Places You Meet Fifteen-Year-Old You. Enter for a chance to win a copy of Five Places You Meet Fifteen-Year-Old
Dr. Anna Leahy, Professor, Director, MFA in Creative Writing and Director of Tabula Poetica in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences recently published a chapbook titled, “What Happened Was:” which includes ten poems each using seven repetitions of “what happened was” to tell its story. Leahy’s poems analyze her own experiences of mismatched
Dr. Martin Nakell, (English), doesn’t subscribe to notions of the poet writing in isolation or imperatives to originality. He embraces the chaotic nature of experience in his writing, and his most recent publication is no exception. Within Consciousness, Dr. Nakell’s latest collection of poems, readers will not find a strong devotion to the typical conventions
Adam Daniel Martinez (MA English/MFA Creative Writing ‘14) recently published a collection of poetry, Remyth: A Postmodernist Ritual. A first-generation Chicano college student, Martinez co-founded Pour Vida, a digital literary zine, while a student in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Martinez has written and performed music for over 15 years and currently