SIUC Graduate Writers Forum

05/06/2017

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

03/27/2017

We famous.

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.

11/11/2016

10/17/2016

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

10/04/2016

Congrats to Anna Leigh Knowles!

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...

04/29/2016

Ain't no poetry reading like a John McCarthy reading, cause a John McCarthy reading makes me want to box.

04/29/2016

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!

04/15/2016

The ever generous Micah Dean Hicks signs at Little Grassy!

04/15/2016

Roger Reeves closes down Little Grassy in style!

04/15/2016

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!

04/14/2016

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

04/14/2016

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