Visiting Writer Steve Scafidi — April 3, 2019!
We’re so excited to have Appalachian poet Steve Scafidi here on campus April 3, 2019! Steve will give a 2:00 PM lecture in the First Bank Richmond Community Room in Whitewater Hall on woodworking...
Creative Writing
English Major Finishes First Novel
Senior Hannah Castor self-published her first mystery novel, Love Unchanging, in February 2018! An English Major with a focus in Technical and Professional Writing and a student in the Honors Program, Hannah started the...
Monthly Creative Writing Workshops First Sat. of Nov. & Dec.!
Poetry in November, Comics in December! Questions? Contact Tanya Perkins, Creative Writing Coordinator, at talperk@iue.edu.
Whitewater Valley Creative Writing Competition for High Schools–2019!
Yup, our creative writing competition for high school students is back for 2019! Five local high school students won awards in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction this past May 2018 in our very...
Our Creative Writing Courses
Each semester the creative writing facultly at IUE offer courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and literary editing. These courses alternate between face-to-face classes and online classes. W206 – Introduction to Creative Writing. Exploratory course in the...
Community Creative Writing Workshops at Room 912
Our next workshop is Mar. 3, 2018. Memoir Writing: Transforming Growing Pains into Art, led by Dr. Steven Petersheim, IU East Faculty Member. WHERE: Room 912, 917 E. Main St., Richmond, IN 407374 WHEN:...
Faculty Member Jean Harper Wins Nonfiction Prize for New Book
Associate Professor Jean Harper’s new book Still Life with Horses has won Howling Bird Press’s 2017 prize in nonfiction and was released in early November 2017. We’re so excited! Here’s what her publisher says...
Veteran’s Writing Workshop of Richmond
The Veteran’s Writing Workshop of Richmond helps veterans tell their stories by providing multi-genre writing workshops free of charge to U.S. veterans in the Richmond area. Led by poet Brian Brodeur, Assistant Professor of English at Indiana University East, this group meets...
CW faculty at IUE
Here are our creative writing faculty, and some links to our work and profiles online. Creative nonfiction: Jean Harper Fiction: Tanya Perkins Poetry: Brian Brodeur Memoir writing: Melissa Blankenship
