SIUC Graduate Writers Forum

Congrats to all the talented MA's/MFA's/PhD's and professors in the English Department this year, near and afar!

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Literary Festival to showcase award winning authors - Heartland Weekend Get inspired at the Little Grass Literary Festival. The three-day event at SIU will include some of the best contemporary American poetry and prose.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Scratch yesterday for our MFA reading! It was a blast!

Congrats to Anna Leigh Knowles!

Anna Leigh Knowles: “Several Deaths of My Sister” This week, we are proud to present a new poem by Anna Leigh Knowles. Knowles is a MFA candidate at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Indiana Review and Thrush Poetry Journal. She is an editorial assistant for Crab Orchard Review and Copy Editor for t...

A weekend adventure in the Windy City. With words! Thanks to all the great people from Columbia who hosted us and came down to Carbondale to read!

The ever generous Micah Dean Hicks signs at Little Grassy!

Roger Reeves closes down Little Grassy in style!

The FINAL event of the Little Grassy Literary Festival is this morning! Micah Dean Hicks reads his fiction from 11-12 and then Roger Reeves takes us out with his poetry from 12-1! Hope to see you there!

Crab Orchard First Book Award Winner Gregory Kimbrell reads at Little Grassy!

A wonderful panel discussion this morning at Little Grassy featuring all of our authors!