News and Events

Creative Writing Alum has novel acquired by Soho Teen

Congratulations to Francesca Padilla (2007 Creative Writing Major) for her debut work What’s Coming to Me. The novel was acquired by Soho Teen and is slated for publication in summer 2022. This summer Fran will also be a writer in residence at the Studios of Key West.
Creative Writing Alumni Trio Launch a Literary Venture

The inaugural issue of Brown Sugar will release on November 27.
Italics Mine Has Launched

The Lily Lieb Port Creative Writing Program proudly presents issue 17 of Italics Mine.
Monica Ferrell Finalist for Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award

For the Associate Professor of Creative Writing’s book, You Darling Thing.
Purchase Students Earn SUNY Arts Awards

Two Purchase seniors were recently honored with the SUNY-wide Thayer Fellowship and Patricia Kerr Ross Award.
Jazz Performers Inspired by Poetry

On Wednesday, April 10, an audience packed the Neuberger Museum of Art’s Center Gallery to hear jazz musicians interpret the poetry of Kevin Young.
Danniel Schoonebeek ’08 Earns NEA Award

The National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing (Poetry) Fellowship is $25,000.
Creative Writer Wins Prestigious Contest

Jiaming “Andy” Tang ’18 earns a Breakout 8 Writers Prize.