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Category: Creative Writing

Friday May 2, 2025

From unearthly realms, to prime time, to the classroom: Meet writer, faculty member Cynthia Hand

Cynthia Hand (Creative Writing), a New York Times bestselling author of several books for teens,…

Tuesday April 29, 2025

Creative writing professor and students receive top Graduate College prizes

Creative Writing professor Martin Corless-Smith and creative writing MFA students Adam Ray Wagner and Lewis…

Tuesday March 4, 2025

In Memoriam: Pierre Joris

The Boise State Creative Writing Program joins the literary community in mourning the loss of…

Free Poetry author wins prestigious TS Eliot Prize

Peter Gizzi, an author published by Boise State Free Poetry, won the TS Eliot Prize…

Friday January 10, 2025

The Hemingway Center Reading Series unveils line-up of renowned visiting writers

The Hemingway Center Reading Series unveiled their line-up of renowned visiting writers for Spring 2025….

Friday September 27, 2024

Boise State alums named 2024-2025 Boise City Writers-in-Residence

The Boise City Department of Arts and History, in partnership with the Boise Public Library…

Monday September 23, 2024

Hemingway Center’s Sawtooth Writing Retreat featured on ‘Backroads of Idaho’

Idaho News 6 recently featured Boise State’s Sawtooth Writing Retreat on their Backroads of Idaho…

Tuesday September 10, 2024

The Creative Writing MFA Reading Series announces stellar fall line-up

The Boise State Creative Writing MFA Reading Series announced their line-up of visiting writers for…

Tuesday September 3, 2024

Corless-Smith publishes poetry collection, his 13th book

Creative Writing professor and Director of the Creative Writing MFA Program, Martin Corless-Smith, published “Golden…

Tuesday September 3, 2024

ccccc selected as 2024 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference Fellows

This summer, Michelle DeLong and Kira Compton, two creative writing graduate students at Boise State…

Tuesday September 3, 2024

Creative writing graduate student and professors present at International Hemingway Conference

This summer, creative writing graduate student Kira Compton, along with Boise State professors Clyde Moneyhun,…

Thursday July 25, 2024

MFA creative writing poets featured in performance art piece by Kate Walker

Poets in the Boise State Creative Writing MFA program participated in “Finding a Way, a…

Thursday May 2, 2024

Graduate College Awards honor excellence in the Creative Writing MFA Program

The Graduate College Awards, held this year on April 25, 2024, honored three individuals within…

Friday March 29, 2024

Poetry collection published by Boise State MFA press nominated for the Griffin Prize

“And And And” by Cole Swensen, a collection published by Free Poetry, was nominated for…

Monday November 27, 2023

The Washington Post names Boise State professor’s collection one of the best books of poetry of 2023

The Washington Post named “April,” the new collection by Boise State creative writing professor Sara…

Friday September 15, 2023

Heidi Kraay and Natalie Disney named as inaugural Boise City Writers-in-Residence

The Boise City Department of Arts and History, in partnership with the Boise Public Library…

Monday July 10, 2023

Literary awards honor excellence in the graduate Creative Writing Program

Each year, the Glenn Balch Prize in Fiction recognizes three MFA fiction students for outstanding…

Tuesday May 2, 2023

Short story published by The Idaho Review selected for “Best American Short Stories 2023”

The editors of “The Best American Short Stories 2023” selected “This Isn’t the Actual Sea”…

Thursday April 13, 2023

Anna Caritj awarded the Andrew Lytle Prize for best short story

Anna Caritj, novelist and Creative Writing Professor, won the Sewanee Review’s Andrew Lytle Prize for…

Friday March 17, 2023

Professor Sara Nicholson publishes third collection of poetry

Sara Nicholson, poet and Professor in the Creative Writing Program, published her third collection of…

Wednesday December 7, 2022

Novelist Anna Caritj to join the Creative Writing Program faculty

Anna Caritj will join the Boise State Creative Writing Program faculty in January, 2023. “I’m…

Thursday December 1, 2022

MFA poetry alum Katie Fuller sells her first full-length manuscript to Anhinga Press

Katie Fuller, who earned her MFA in poetry from Boise State, sold “Careful,” her first…

Tuesday November 8, 2022

Creative Writing MFA alum publishes debut novel

Alan Heathcock, alum of the Boise State Creative Writing MFA Program, published his first novel,…

Monday October 31, 2022

Professor and best-selling author Ridley Pearson pens a new book for young readers

Ridley Pearson, Professor of the Practice in the Creative Writing Program, published his sixty-first novel,…

Thursday October 27, 2022

Martin Corless-Smith celebrates new translation of his book, “Bitter Green”

Creative Writing Professor Martin Corless-Smith will celebrate a new translation of one of his books,…

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