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Current RC Creative Writing student Paige Pfleger published an essay on the origins of Eight Mile Road in “The Detroiter” section of the Michigan Radio site.

RC Creative Writing alum Anna Clark recently published an essay in the New York Times.

In this 8-week course, Writing in The D, U-M students and Detroit Public High School students will work to improve writing skills through writing short fiction. Classes will include impromptu writing exercises, online character sketches, online responses to readings, and in-class discussions. Beginning Saturday, January 17, 11 am to 2 pm, classes will be held at the UAW-Ford Center at 151 W. Jefferson Ave. near Cobo Hall in Detroit. It’s a unique opportunity to experience Detroit through the eyes of its students and to share the process of creating fiction. Students will be able to take the U-M Connector.

On Friday, December 5,  RC Drama Concentration  performances of Angels in America and Night Mother are viewable for free in the Keene, 7:30 pn. And a performance of The Seagull on Saturday, December 6, Keene, 7:30 pm,

Get cozy at “Fireside Stories with the RC Review!” on Tuesday, November 25th, 7:30 to 9:30 pm. 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!

Jon Michael Darga, a 2014 RC Creative Writing (honors) graduate, answers questions about how to pursue a creative career in publishing, Monday, November 24th at 7 pm in Greene Lounge. 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 the Voices 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.

RC Creative Writing senior Paige Pfleger is an intern at Michigan Radio. One of her projects is the Michigan Radio Picture Project.

The RC Players present Breaking News: A Tragedy-Comedy about the Comedy of Tragedy, written and directed by RC junior Skyler Tarnas.  The sleepy town of Hiddlesville is rocked with explosions, and everybody’s got something to say about it. Television pundits and government agents are honing in on the situation… which is exactly what the bombers want. In the Keene Theater, East Quad (basement). Free. Shows Friday, November 21 at 8 pm, Saturday, November 22 at 8 pm, and Sunday, November 23 at 2 pm.

Laura Thomas is an RC Creative Writing alumna and head of the RC’s Creative Writing program. Midwestern Gothic published one of Laura’s stories in its current issue, and posted an interview with Laura on its website.