Creative Writing Program

Past News and Events

Earlier in 2012-2013

The deadline for the Annual Writing Contests is 2/28/13. New this year is a Best English 091 Paper Contest! Please visit the Annual Writing Contest page to learn more!

Helen Frost, the award-winning author of seven novels-in-poems, visited Lake Superior State University on Monday, February 11, 2013 to present a reading and master class. For more information, visit the Visiting Writers Series page.

The second issue of Border Crossing, the CWP journal of literature and art, arrived from the printer on October 30, 2012. The launch party for our second issue took place at Bayliss Public Library in Sault Sainte Marie, MI on Thursday, November 8 at 7:00 pm. Read more here.

Nikky Finney, winner of the 2011 National Book Award for Poetry for Head Off & Split, and known as one of the most eloquent, fearless and necessary poets in America, visited Lake Superior State University on Thursday, Oct. 4, to present a reading and master class. Read more here.

Creative writing professor Julie Barbour read from her recently-released chapbook of poetry, Come To Me and Drink, at 7 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 27, in the Bayliss Public Library, here in Sault Ste. Marie! Read more here.

Four LSSU professors participated in the U.P. Book Tour!

2011-2012 News

The book launch party for Creative Writing professor Julie Brooks Barbour was held Friday, April 20, 3-4:30 PM in the library! Read an interview with Brooks Barbour about her chapbook, Come To Me and Drink, here.

The end-of-semester department reception was Thursday, April 19, from 6-8 pm at the Ontario/Michigan rooms in the Cisler Center. Winners of the annual writing contests were announced; departmental awards were presented; and Border Crossing editors talked about their experience on the journal.

Our Summer and Fall 2012 courses are posted on the University scheduling site. Be sure to check out our new INTD literary journal internships.

The Lake Superior State University Visiting Writer Series, a part of the new Creative Writing Program, hosted National Book Award–winning novelist, Jaimy Gordon, as its inaugural Visiting Writer on Monday, February 20, from 7-9 pm at the Crow's Nest in the Walker Cisler Center! The reading and reception was free, open to the public, and a great success.