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An opportunity for promising writers to develop their craft in the company of peers and under the guidance of Stanford faculty.
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New Book Release from Nicholas Jenkins
New Book Release from Nicholas Jenkins
Nicholas Jenkins, Associate Professor of English and Co-Director of the Creative Writing Program, celebrates the release of his new book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden's England. A groundbreaking reassessment of W. H. Auden’s early life and poetry, shedding new light on his artistic development as well as on his shifting beliefs about political belonging in interwar England.
New Book Releases from Madeleine Cravens & Zach Williams
New Book Releases from Madeleine Cravens & Zach Williams
We would like to extend our congratulations to Madeleine Cravens, Stegner fellow, and Zach Williams, Jones Lecturer, on their first book releases. Madeleine Cravens has debuted an astonishing collection of poems while Zach Williams debuted a striking story collection.
Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading
Description dances off the page at final Stegner Fellow reading
On Wednesday night, Stegner Fellow in Fiction Nevarez Encinias delivered an evening of movement and description in literary form. A dancer by training, Encinias’s background came through in his writing through his elaborate physical descriptions and seemingly choreographed prose.
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A Crash Course in Molotov Cocktails (2023), shortlisted for 2024 Griffin Poetry Prize) emerged out of a productive collaboration…
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Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program, we're pleased to announce a reading with Stegner Fellows in Poetry and Fiction: D.M. Spratley…
Join Jones Lecturer Keith Ekiss at POET'S HOUSE this Autumn, a writing studio for all poets--beginning…