Congratulations to MFA alumnus Tricia Crisafulli on the release of her third Ohnita Harbor mystery, The Secrets of the Old Post Cemetery, which is out today from Woodhall Press!
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There's still time to apply for classes starting in January 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is October 15.

#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting

More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry

New post up on our Word Cafe site by Northwestern School of Professional Studies MFA student Kevin McEvoy about his favorite indie bookstore - the @strandbookstore.bsky.social in NYC!

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Congratulations to fiction alumnus Jeremy T. Wilson, whose new short story, "Where Are You From?", was published in the Spring/Summer 2025 Issue of SWING!

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#shortstories #story #fiction #shortstory #literaryjournal #litmag #amreading #amwriting

There's still time to apply for classes starting in January 2026! Our next admissions deadline for the MA in Writing & the MFA in Prose & Poetry is October 15.

#poetry #nonfiction #fiction #publishing #creativewriting

More information available here: sps.northwestern.edu/masters/prose-and-poetry

If you're in Chicago this Thursday, Sept. 11, join @michaelzapata.bsky.social & @zakmucha.bsky.social at After-Words Books, 23 E. Illinois St., 6:30 PM for a discussion on trauma and fascism. Eventbrite link ⬇️ www.eventbrite.com/e/trauma-and...

📢 JOB ALERT: Block Club is hiring a full-time reporter to cover Beverly, Morgan Park + Mount Greenwood on Chicago's South Side!

Deadline to apply is 9/15:
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Looking for a new book to add to your reading list? Current MA student Brett Brown shares a book recommendation/summer reading pick: Taiye Selasi's "The Sex Lives of African Girls."

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#amreading #amwriting #novels #fiction #taiyeselasi

Join us tomorrow, Tu, 8/19, 6 PM, (doors: 5:30 PM), 500 Main St., Evanston, IL for a faculty & graduate reading, cohosted by @bookedevanston.bsky.social & Brothers K Coffee!

Readers: Betsy Haberl, Alexandria Haynes, Jared Spitz, Ryan Rivera, Faisal Mohyuddin billy lombardo @loriraderday.bsky.social

I will be reading with a group of writers from @nugradwriting.bsky.social tomorrow in Evanston at Brothers K Coffeeshop. Going to be a good time!

Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...

Sharing a new Word Cafe post from MFA fiction alumnus TJ Jaffe, "Jail Is a Four Letter Word."

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Join us for an online Summer Writers Conference (@nusummerwriters.bsky.social) on Sat, Aug. 2!
Faculty incl: @fulmerford.com, @loriraderday.bsky.social, billy lombardo, Gioia Diliberto, Donna Seaman, Paula Carter, & Christine Sneed
More info & registration here: sps.northwestern.edu/professional...

From "So Many Promises And So Many Lies" by S. Afzal Haider, CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"After four days and three nights in Paris, Joyce and Ved headed toward the sun-drenched south of France for four nights and three days. From the Gare de Lyon they boarded an afternoon train for Avignon."

From "Chicken Man" by Elizabeth McKenzie, @elizabethmck.bsky.social CQR 30th Anniversary Edition:
"The chicken man cleans like no one else. Got his beak in everything, a tornado of order, a machine with feathers, but mostly a friend."

From "Henriette's Trick" by Signe Ratcliff, ‪CQR 30th Anniversary Issue:
"Mason sometimes pretended that Mom drove to the Hardee’s and spent the day eating hamburgers, instead of driving into Germantown, where she cut hair at the Klassy Kut..."
#fiction @signeratcliff.bsky.social‬

✨Join us June 24th to celebrate the launch of our Summer 2025 Issue!
🎤Readings by John Briscoe, @williamwardbutler.bsky.social, @susanmgaines.bsky.social, Charles Hood, Annie Holdren, @elizabethmck.bsky.social, @davidrompf.bsky.social, Patrice Vecchione.
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Join us on Aug 19 in Evanston, IL for a faculty & alumni reading, cohosted by @bookedevanston.bsky.social (venue is Brothers K cafe, 500 Main St.) Alumni: @betsyhaberl.bsky.social, Alexandria Haynes, Jared Spitz, Ryan Rivera, & faculty: Faisal Mohyuddin, Billy Lombardo, @loriraderday.bsky.social! ✒️

Congratulations to MFA fiction alumnus @ankurthakkar.com who will publish his debut novel, Blow Yourself Up, in 2026!

Fiction faculty @loriraderday.bsky.social will be participating in Thrillerfest in New York City from June 19 – 21. Her new novel, WRECK YOUR HEART (for cover reveal - click on link), will be out on January 6, 2026 from Minotaur/St. Martin’s Press! chireviewofbooks.com/2025/05/02/e...

Our pleasure, Ignatius!

Our pleasure!