Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, & MORE
Creative writing alum Steph Cash Beckner (BA, English, 2016; MA, English, 2019) was a finalist for the 2020 Iowa Review Award in nonfiction. This contest was judged by novelist and essays Leslie Jamison. Steph...
The Regional Writers Series is excited to announce our next visiting writer: Novelist Jessica Anthony! Her newest book, Enter the Aardvark, was released by Little, Brown and Company in March 2020. Her work has been published...
We are so proud of English MA student Sara Baxter, who just won 2nd place for poetry at Sigma Tau Delta’s national conference, for her poem collection, “Conspiracy Theories.” Sara is Editor-in-Chief of Tributaries:...
Creative Writing faculty member Brian Brodeur will publish his newest collection of poetry, Every Hour is Late, with Measure Press. Brodeur is the author of the poetry collections Natural Causes (2012) and Other Latitudes (2008), as well as...
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...
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
