Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts [NEOMFA]
@neomfa.bsky.social
The nation’s only consortial MFA creative writing program. Three gateway campuses: The University of Akron, Cleveland State University, & Kent State University. Four genres: fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, & playwriting. < neomfa.org >
Love this piece from @ironbrewer.bsky.social
Watch what stays and what gets made as language disappears in "Burning Plastic Factories." Read Corey Miller's electric poem here:
www.mudroommag.com/corey-miller
www.mudroommag.com/corey-miller
December 15, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Love this piece from @ironbrewer.bsky.social
We're a little over one month away from our next application deadline 🗓️
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
December 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
December 14, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Student-led reading series 2x2 put on another great night of music & lit last weekend 🎸📚🎙️
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Student-led reading series 2x2 put on another great night of music & lit last weekend 🎸📚🎙️
Books from faculty Hilary Plum ("State Champ," @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) AND alum Ali Black ("We Look Better Alive," @burnsidereview.bsky.social) featured in this list of favs from @clevelandmag.bsky.social 💫💫💫
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...
50 Cleveland Book Releases We Loved in 2025
Find new releases in fiction, nonfiction, art, poetry and more from authors affiliated with Northeast Ohio's literary scene.
clevelandmagazine.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Books from faculty Hilary Plum ("State Champ," @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social) AND alum Ali Black ("We Look Better Alive," @burnsidereview.bsky.social) featured in this list of favs from @clevelandmag.bsky.social 💫💫💫
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...
clevelandmagazine.com/articles/50-...
Program Director @marybid.bsky.social's new novella - The Girl with the Black Lipstick - featured in @clmporg.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Round-Up📚💫
Check out the full list: www.clmp.org/news/fiction...
Check out the full list: www.clmp.org/news/fiction...
Fiction of 2025 - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
We’re excited to share this year-end roundup of novels, novellas, short story collections, and fiction anthologies published in 2025 by independent literary publishers! Read our year-end roundups of n...
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December 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Program Director @marybid.bsky.social's new novella - The Girl with the Black Lipstick - featured in @clmporg.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Round-Up📚💫
Check out the full list: www.clmp.org/news/fiction...
Check out the full list: www.clmp.org/news/fiction...
🚨Pub Alert🚨
CSU poetry candidate El Bentivegna has published their debut chapbook — Confirm Humanity — with Rockwood Press
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
CSU poetry candidate El Bentivegna has published their debut chapbook — Confirm Humanity — with Rockwood Press
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
Confirm Humanity: Poems by El Bentivegna — Rockwood Press
Bentivegna’s Confirm Humanity captures the meandering no-where-to-go-ness of Trump’s post-pandemic America; they do so with a modern poetic flair, a barrage of the pain of thinking, “making it about /...
www.rockwoodpress.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:09 PM
🚨Pub Alert🚨
CSU poetry candidate El Bentivegna has published their debut chapbook — Confirm Humanity — with Rockwood Press
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
CSU poetry candidate El Bentivegna has published their debut chapbook — Confirm Humanity — with Rockwood Press
www.rockwoodpress.com/bookstore/p/...
TONIGHT
🚨2x2 Alert🚨
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
December 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
TONIGHT
We're a little over one month away from our next application deadline 🗓️
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
December 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We're a little over one month away from our next application deadline 🗓️
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
Applicants who'd like to be considered for a Graduate Assistantship must apply by this next deadline, 1/15/26 (Fall '26 start).
Learn more at neomfa.org/apply 📜
TONIGHT!
Our very own @ironbrewer.bsky.social will be reading next week at the Valley Art Center for Ekphrastacy ‘25 🎨✍️🎙️
See you there?
See you there?
December 4, 2025 at 2:06 PM
TONIGHT!
“No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, trans. by Hazem Jamjoum, published by the CSU Poetry Center, is the winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in Translation 💫
Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
December 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“No One Knows Their Blood Type” by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat, trans. by Hazem Jamjoum, published by the CSU Poetry Center, is the winner of the 2025 Palestine Book Award in Translation 💫
Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
Just in time for #readpalestineweek 🇵🇸
MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
December 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
MARK YOUR CALENDARS 🗓️
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
Fiction candidate Willow Campbell will be reading at the Cleveland launch party of @clereviewbooks.bsky.social’s latest issue 🎙️📓
12/14 @ 6:30 @ Dunlap’s Corner Bar
See you there 🧐
🚨2x2 Alert🚨
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
🚨2x2 Alert🚨
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
The next installment of everyone’s favorite night of words & music will be Dec 6 at Rhizome House in Cleveland Heights 🎙️🎸
Featuring faculty Hilary Plum & alum Matt Breit 📝✍️
Program Director @marybid.bsky.social ‘s prose poetry can be found in the latest print issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social 💫
thimblelitmag.square.site/product/8-2-...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Program Director @marybid.bsky.social ‘s prose poetry can be found in the latest print issue of @thimblelitmag.bsky.social 💫
thimblelitmag.square.site/product/8-2-...
thimblelitmag.square.site/product/8-2-...
Our very own @ironbrewer.bsky.social will be reading next week at the Valley Art Center for Ekphrastacy ‘25 🎨✍️🎙️
See you there?
See you there?
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Our very own @ironbrewer.bsky.social will be reading next week at the Valley Art Center for Ekphrastacy ‘25 🎨✍️🎙️
See you there?
See you there?
TONIGHT! CSU poetry candidate Isabel Snyder will be reading 💫
November 21, 2025 at 2:22 PM
TONIGHT! CSU poetry candidate Isabel Snyder will be reading 💫
New short story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro out now in the second issue of Edge City from Noco Book 💫
www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge...
www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge...
EDGE CITY #2 — Noco Books
Joining the likes of B’Day , Melodrama , and Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed , EDGE CITY 2 matches and in some ways even surpasses its already outstanding predecessor. Exalting the number 2 in...
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November 20, 2025 at 1:32 PM
New short story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro out now in the second issue of Edge City from Noco Book 💫
www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge...
www.nocobo.co/store/p/edge...
Poetry alum Noor Hindi will take part in a panel discussion at this year’s NCTE Conference in Denver — wish we could be there for this important conversation!
November 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Poetry alum Noor Hindi will take part in a panel discussion at this year’s NCTE Conference in Denver — wish we could be there for this important conversation!
Wonderful evening at Mac’s last week celebrating the debut from local poet Mary Simmons 🐦⬛ Our very own Olivia Mirmohamed opened the night with a reading from her thesis 💫
Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh...
@juneroadpress.bsky.social
Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh...
@juneroadpress.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Wonderful evening at Mac’s last week celebrating the debut from local poet Mary Simmons 🐦⬛ Our very own Olivia Mirmohamed opened the night with a reading from her thesis 💫
Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh...
@juneroadpress.bsky.social
Get “Mother, Daughter, Auger” at Mac’s or online here: www.juneroadpress.com/mother-daugh...
@juneroadpress.bsky.social
Fall Student Reading in the books 📚
See you at the next one!
See you at the next one!
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Fall Student Reading in the books 📚
See you at the next one!
See you at the next one!
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November 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Playwriting candidate Eric Mansfield is holding a staged reading for his new full-length drama, "Ride or Die," on Nov 14th, 7:30pm, at the Coach House Theatre in Akron.
Tix are FREE; register here: makeshift.booktix.com/dept/main/e/...
Tix are FREE; register here: makeshift.booktix.com/dept/main/e/...
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
TONIGHT
New essay from alum Jack Etzler (fiction, UA ‘25) in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/i-really...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/i-really...
i really wish that i knew about midwest emo music back when it was cool to be sad about girls and sneak drinks from the liquor cabinet — Blood+Honey
by Jack Etzler “So, like, fuck man, if I knew about this Midwest Emo shit back in college I feel like I would’ve hit new levels of emotional depth…”
www.bloodhoneylit.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
New essay from alum Jack Etzler (fiction, UA ‘25) in @bloodhoneylit.bsky.social
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/i-really...
www.bloodhoneylit.com/cnf/i-really...
THIS SATURDAY!
Mark those calendars 🗓️
Mark your 🗓️
November 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
THIS SATURDAY!
Poetry alum Meg Johnson interviews multidisciplinary artist Tullio DeSantis — read it here: megjohnsonmegjohnson.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...
Interview with Tullio DeSantis
Tullio DeSantis Tullio DeSantis (born November 7, 1948) is a n American multidisciplinary artist and writer whose work is informed by a...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Poetry alum Meg Johnson interviews multidisciplinary artist Tullio DeSantis — read it here: megjohnsonmegjohnson.blogspot.com/2025/11/inte...