Creative Writing

The English Department is home to a thriving Creative Writing program. Our faculty have collectively published fifty books of fiction, poetry, literary nonfiction, and criticism. They have won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and the Fulbright Program, as well as University-wide awards for outstanding teaching and mentoring. For undergraduates, we offer a track within the English major, as well as a certificate in Creative Writing. For graduate students, we offer a PhD. Students at all levels focus on either fiction, poetry, or literary nonfiction. We are home to an undergraduate journal, Short Vine, and the nationally prominent literary journal The Cincinnati Review. Our PhD program was ranked eighth in the country by Poets & Writers.

Poetry Reading by Johannes Göransson
Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures 
March 30, 2023; 5:30 p.m. EST
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Zoom registration: 
https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqfuGrqz4pG9Sf8QHyAgdyYxO4fQAyTmGK

Mimetic Excess: A Talk on Translation by Johannes Göransson
Co-sponsored by the Department of Romance and Arabic Languages and Literatures 
March 31, 2023; 3:30 p.m. EST
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Zoom registration: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpcumrqjgoEtSwAEiyzaUxmgoFyj-wdHym

Fiction reading by Allegra Hyde
April 20, 2023; 5:30 p.m. EST
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library
Zoom registration: 
https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYodeygqTwrGNZgDqxmiQmp1g4MaR3Bzvqk

“The Writer and the Agent: A Conversation with Erin Harris and Allegra Hyde”
April 21, 2023; 3:30 p.m. EST 
Elliston Poetry Room, 646 Langsam Library 
Zoom registration: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwpf-uurT0sH93shNtW4J89MNzHzI-LAseQ