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The Creative Writing Program at the University of Connecticut provides undergraduate and graduate students with writing courses in poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, drama, and screenwriting. Classes are offered from beginning to advanced levels, and are open to all students regardless of their major. (Read more.)

News

PhD candidate Brian Sneeden receives PEN/Heim Translation Grant
Looking for a J-O-B? P&W has some intriguing listings…
English PhD student Brian Sneeden’s got a book, and another on the way!

Upcoming Events

Apr 26 Long River Review Release Party6:00pm
Apr 28 Teacher as Writer Workshop10:00am
May 2 The Black Avenger: a Western Tradition of Novelty1:30pm

Long River Review Release Party

Thursday, April 26th, 2018

06:00 PM - 07:00 PM

Storrs Campus
UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Long River Review Release Party

UConn Bookstore, Storrs Center, 6:00 pm

Contact Information: seanfredforbes@gmail.com

Teacher as Writer Workshop

Saturday, April 28th, 2018

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin Stern Lounge

Teacher as Writer writing workshop

Contact Information: Danielle Pieratti, dpieratti@swindsor.k12.ct.us

The Black Avenger: a Western Tradition of Novelty

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

01:30 PM - 03:00 PM

Storrs Campus
Austin 217

The Committee on Speakers and Symposium presents a Brown Bag Talk with Professor GrÃ©gory Pierrot called, "The Black Avenger: a Western Tradition of Novelty."

GrÃ©gory Pierrot is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He has recently translated the French treatise Free Jazz/Black Power by Philippe Carles and Jean-Louis Comolli (Mississippi UP: 2015), and edited a scholarly edition of Marcus Rainsfordâs An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti (Duke UP: 2013; co-edited with Paul Youngquist). His articles have been published in Studies in American Fiction, the African American Review, Criticism, and Notes and Queries. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively entitled: One in a Million: Black Avengers in Atlantic Culture.

Contact Information: Martha Cutter, martha.cutter@uconn.edu

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