The University of Kansas Graduate Creative Writing Program

Thank you to Danielle Vogel for the beautiful reading + conversation last week. Here's the link to the recording, in case you missed the event: https://mediahub.ku.edu/media/t/1_zeq8qenc

Poetry + Practice Spring Reading Series - Vidhu Aggarwal, Rollins College Zoom Recording ID: 95888561333 UUID: cFPsC3QfTbG5i++c0NCfsw== Meeting Time: 2021-03-17T20:44:42Z

Here's the recording of Petra Kuppers' beautiful reading + discussion of her writing practice with graduate student, in case you missed it or would like to revisit.

We'll do it again next Wednesday with visiting poet/scholar Vidhu Aggarwal. Join us!

Poetry + Practice Spring Reading Series - Petra Kuppers, University of Michigan Zoom Recording ID: 99812665234 UUID: knBUQsJHTayHFG9uQJLDDg== Meeting Time: 2021-03-03T21:28:49Z

Creative Writing Ph.D. alumna Kate Elizabeth Russell's book MY DARK VANESSA is a Vanity Fair top 15 book of 2020! Congratulations, Kate!

Check out the latest book review here and order The New York Times' bestseller MY DARK VANESSA from the Raven Book Store or your local bookstore.

The 15 Best Books of 2020 At the end of a turbulent year, these are the voices who might just be capable of guiding us into the uncertain future.

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Double congratulations to MFA grad Hannah Soyer on her review at The Rumpus! Soyer reviews PhD creative writing alum Rebekah Taussig’s new book, SITTING PRETTY: THE VIEW FROM FROM MY ORDINARY RESILIENT DISABLED BODY.

Check out Soyer's review at The Rumpus and buy Taussig's SITTING PRETTY, out now from HarperOneBooks!

The Complex Disability Representation We Need: Rebekah Taussig’s Sitting Pretty What Taussig does, then, is ground these ideas in reality through her own lived experiences.

Congratulations to Ph.D. creative writing grad Kim Kankiewicz on her latest publication "Immortal Coils," now available to read at Sweet: A Literary Confection!

Kim Kankiewicz Note: If you are reading on a phone this is better viewed in landscape format; or ideally find a full screen display.   Immortal Coils by Kim Kankiewicz I hid a Ziploc bag of hair in a half-at…

Congratulations MFA creative writer and founder of This Body is Worthy, Hannah Soyer! Read more about her recent advocacy project below in her interview with CHALK magazine.

'We are not disposable': KU student collects disabled people's COVID-19 stories University of Kansas graduate student Hannah Soyer is organizing an online archive to display and promote experiences of disabled and at-risk individuals during the pandemic.