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Novella-T is publishing RC Creative Writing director (and RC Creative Writing alumna) Laura Thomas‘s new novella, An Uneven Recovery. The novella is being published in six installments; the first installment is free.

RC Creative Writing student (and RC Review editor) Cammie Finch was Poetry runner-up in Current‘s 15th annual fiction and poetry contest. Cammie, the poetry and fiction winners, and the fiction runner-up will read their pieces Wednesday, November 18th at 6:30 pm at Arbor Brewing, 114. W. Washington.

RC Creative Writing alum (’14) and Emerging Writer awardee Allison Epstein published a review of Hamilton (and a reflection on whitewashed American history) in the November 2 edition of Adios Barbie.

She is the managing editor of Adios Barbie, a nonprofit body image and feminist website, and the voice behind the recovery blog The Body Pacifist. While in the RC, she was an active member and editor-in-chief of the RC Review literary magazine and wrote her senior thesis with the RC Creative Writing department. Allison is pursuing the ever-elusive dream of a career in editing or writing, and would love to connect with RC alumni and students; you can find her on Twitter or on LinkedIn.

RC Creative Writing alumnus Josh Thilmany (RC 13) is now working as a “scholar advocate” at Interfolio in Washington, DC, an educational technology company, where he works in a “stereotypically hipster, HBO mini-series-esque office.” After graduation he enrolled in the MAT program (Master of Arts in Teaching) at Boston University, considered Denver University’s MAT program, then took this job in DC.

RC Creative Writing alumna Ashley Willis (RC 13) produced Jah King’s new video, “I’m Not Insnae,” which is the single off his new EP, Alterego: The Silhouette.

RC Creative Writing Program head and RC Writing alumna Laura Thomas (RC 1988) will be reading at Brilliant Books, in Traverse City, on October 17, between 7-9 pm, at the release party for the Fall 2015 issue of  Dunes Review. The Review is publishing her essay, “Chasing Readers, Roads, and Rock and Roll.”

Peter Anderson (RC 1972) is acting in The Waiting Room, a “true life musical about patience and recovery,” until October 31 on the Granville Island Stage in Vancouver. Peter is also acting in the site-specific cabaret Flee, which he co-created, with the Electric Company Theatre at the Fox Cabaret in Vancouver, November 26 through December 6. And . . . the Marin Shakespeare Festival summer production of Peter’s (and Colin Heath’s) adaptation of Don Quixote received eight nominations in the Theatre Bay Area awards in San Francisco.

Elizabeth Swaynie (2015) has been working in the RC’s Academic Services office this autumn, after graduation and then working last summer at U-M’s Conference Services. Among other things, Liz answers student questions, schedules student academic reservations, and schedules rooms. Liz worked all four of her college years in the RC Admissions office, and was an RA (Resident Assistant) her senior year. From Williamston (near Okemos), Liz visited the RC while still in high school and was impressed by a French conversation she sat in on. She started with a  focus on French in the RC but ended up majoring in both Creative Writing and Screen Arts and Cultures. Liz writes some fiction but has primarily worked on screenplays for television and film, both comedy and drama. She’s considering an MA in Screen Writing, and is leaning toward USC or UCLA because of their proximity to Hollywood