Lolita Hernandez will read from her new story collection, Making Callaloo in Detroit, in the Keene.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge. (Next teas: November 5, December 9)
Friday Night’s Alright for Reading
Midwestern Gothic is excited to be hosting a reading at The Benzinger Library in East Quad, featuring the following contributors:
Julie Babcock is a Pushcart Prize nominee and recipient of grants and fellowships from the Indiana Arts Commission and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have appeared in various journals and anthologies including The Iowa Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Plume. She lived the first twenty years of her life in Ohio, then she made a circle around the Midwest and currently teaches at University of Michigan.
John Counts is a crime reporter at The Ann Arbor News. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in A Detroit Anthology, Chicago Reader’s Pure Fiction Issue and Midwestern Gothic, among other places. He is also an editor at the Great Lakes Review where he coordinates the online Narrative Map essay project.
Robert James Russell is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominated author and founding editor of the literary journals Midwestern Gothic and CHEAP POP. His work has appeared in Joyland, Great Lakes Review, Squalorly, Buffalo Almanack, Pithead Chapel, WhiskeyPaper, and The Collagist, among others. Find him online at robertjamesrussell.com.
Jared Yates Sexton is a Hoosier living and working in the South as an Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University. He is the Managing Editor of BULL and the author of three story collections, two of which are forthcoming from Split Lip Press, and a novel due out from New Pulp Press.
Laura Hulthen Thomas grew up in the Ann Arbor area but was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Over the years swimming in the Atlantic was replaced by swimming in Lake Michigan. Running the dunes came to mean at Sleeping Bear, not Hampton Beach, and digging for clams turned into luring trout on the Pigeon, the Au Sable, and the Pere Marquette. Now she heads the undergraduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan’s Residential College. Her short fiction has appeared in a number of journals, including The Cimarron Review, Nimrod International Journal, Epiphany and Witness. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee and received an honorable mention in the 2009 Nimrod Literary Awards. She is a contributor to Ghost Writers: Us Haunting Them, a collection of ghost stories by noted Michigan authors published by Wayne State University Press.
RC Writers Tea, open to majors and current writing students who are non majors, and current students interested in the writing major. In RC’s Greene Lounge. (Next tea: December 9)
Breaking News: A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy
Written and directed by University of Michigan Junior Skyler Tarnas, Keene Theater, East Quad (basement). Free.
Shows also on Saturday, November 22nd- 8 PM and Sunday, November 23rd- 2 PM
Breaking News: A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy
Written and directed by University of Michigan Junior Skyler Tarnas, Keene Theater, East Quad (basement). Free.
Show also on Sunday, November 23rd- 2 PM
Breaking News: A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy
Written and directed by University of Michigan Junior Skyler Tarnas, Keene Theater, East Quad (basement). Free.
Staged reading for RC faculty and students.
Jon Michael Darga, a 2014 RC Creative Writing (honors) graduate, answers your questions about how to pursue a creative career in publishing.
Jon wrote his senior thesis on women and the medieval modern in The Lord of the Rings . He was happily fixated on semicolons and Oxford commas as the editor of last year’s RC Review. Interning with Midwestern Gothic literary magazine and publishing press, Jon co-created theVoices of the Middle West annual festival, organized book tours, and came to realize his love of all things publishing. After attending the Columbia Publishing Course, Jon now works as an agent’s assistant at Park Literary in New York City.ago Reader’s Pure Fiction Issue and Midwestern Gothic, among other places. He is also an editor at the Great Lakes Review where he coordinates the online Narrative Map essay project.
Fireside Stories with The RC Review
Get cozy at “Fireside Stories with the RC Review!” We’ll have an open mic where any students can (and should!) bring their own poetry, prose, and other awesome creative work to share with us. Share your love of words, support your RC community, and hear the RC’s very own Creative Writing professors read from their own amazing work! This will also be the kick-off of the grand opening of the RC Review’s submission season!
