News and Events
Latest News:
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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.
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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.
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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.
Upcoming Events:
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Nov
9
Durst Distinguished Lecture Series: Kaitlyn Greenidge in conversation with Professor Mariel Rodney
Time: 6:00pmKaitlyn Greenidge is the author of two novels: We Love You Charlie Freeman, which was named one of the New York Times Critics’ Top Ten Books of 2016 and was a finalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize; and Libertie, which was named one of the most anticipated books of the year by, among other publications, The Washington Post, Time, and the New York Times. Greenidge is the recipient of fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Currently the Features Director at Harper’s Bazaar, she also serves as a contributing writer for the New York Times.
Individuals requiring accommodations for equal access to this event should contact humanities@purchase.edu a minimum of 5 business days prior to the event.
The Durst Distinguished Lecture Series is made possible by the Roy and Shirley Durst Distinguished Chair in Literature Endowment.
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Nov
18
Poets at Work: A Reading and Conversation with Nathan Xavier Osorio
Time: 6:30pmNathan Xavier Osorio is the son of a Mexican grocer and Nicaraguan nurse.
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Dec
2
Poets at Work: A Reading and Conversation with Devon Walker-Figueroa
Time: 6:30pmDevon Walker-Figueroa is the author of Philomath (Milkweed Editions, 2021), selected for the National Poetry Series by Sally Keith and of the chapbook, So Lame (Berfrois, 2019).
