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We cordially invite you for Open Mic Night & Café🎤at our weekly In Process this Thursday! We hugely encourage for studen...
10/05/2026

We cordially invite you for Open Mic Night & Café🎤at our weekly In Process this Thursday! We hugely encourage for students to share their new or in-process creative writing works. Anything from poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, plays, songs, scripts can be read! We’d love to hear from you🎙️💙

We’ll meet at the Sam Ingram Building MT Center, Thursday afternoon at 4:30.

Are you an aspiring creative writer wanting to share your work? ✍️📝Submit for an opportunity to attend the SLFA Undergra...
10/02/2026

Are you an aspiring creative writer wanting to share your work? ✍️📝
Submit for an opportunity to attend the SLFA Undergraduate Writing Contest by November 16th!

If you have any questions, email Jennifer Kates or stop by Peck Hall Room 386

We hope you decide to submit to this incredible opportunity 🩵
Have you ever submitted your work to a contest?

For this week’s In Process, we are delighted to introduce two poets in a Special Event in Honor of National Hispanic Her...
09/28/2026

For this week’s In Process, we are delighted to introduce two poets in a Special Event in Honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month. William Archila is the 2023 winner for the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, author of his new bilingual selection, Canícula/Dog Days, and a 2023 Jack Hazard Fellowship winner!

Lory Bedikian is also a Philip Levine Prize for Poetry winner, a winner of the 2023 Prairie Schooner/Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Poetry, the 2026 winner of the Anahid Literary Award and author of her second collection, Jagadakeer: Apology to the Body.

Copies of these authors’ books can be bought at Phillips Bookstore.
This event is free to the public and will be hosted at the TOM JACKSON BUILDING this Thursday at 4:30pm.

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate one of our Adjunct Professors, Nathan Knapp, on the upcoming release ...
09/23/2026

We’d like to take this opportunity to congratulate one of our Adjunct Professors, Nathan Knapp, on the upcoming release for his second novel, Schopenhauer.

Releasing this Friday, in Nashville, we would love to see everyone there!
Congratulations on this accomplishment, Nathan!📖

Please join us for our next In Process with our own BRYANNA LICCIARDI.Currently teaching English and Women & Gender Stud...
09/22/2026

Please join us for our next In Process with our own BRYANNA LICCIARDI.
Currently teaching English and Women & Gender Studies for MTSU, serves as the Poetry Mentor and Community Liaison for MTSU Write, Bryanna will be our next guest this Thursday, September 24.

We encourage to you to attend at the Sam Ingram Building (MT Center) at 4:30pm!

For the Fall 2026 series for Women & Gender Studies, Dr. Poushali Bhadury, Associate Professor of English, will present ...
09/21/2026

For the Fall 2026 series for Women & Gender Studies, Dr. Poushali Bhadury, Associate Professor of English, will present on “A Series of Her Own: The Female Detective In Early Bengali Children’s Crime Fiction”.🫆🕵️‍♀️

All MTSU students, faculty, and staff are welcome to attend at the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building on September 30th from 3-4pm.

We encourage everyone to attend!

Are you a student navigating the inner-workings of Microsoft Word? Come join our workshop co-hosted by the and Come le...
09/17/2026

Are you a student navigating the inner-workings of Microsoft Word? Come join our workshop co-hosted by the and

Come learn on the second floor of the James E. Walker library on September 23rd and 24th from 3-3:45pm!

We hope to see you there 🩵💙

Our next guest for In Process is Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow, and the first Asian American woman t...
09/14/2026

Our next guest for In Process is Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow, and the first Asian American woman to be named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama. Kristina Wong is a performance artist, comedian, writer, actor, and former elected official.

You can also read Kristina Wong’s interview at the In Process webzine!

We hope to see everyone on Thursday at the MT Center at 4:30pm!

The University Writing Center would also like to announce the addition of an Online Creative Writing Group✍️This group m...
09/09/2026

The University Writing Center would also like to announce the addition of an Online Creative Writing Group✍️

This group meets via ZOOM, Thursdays 6-7pm!
If you have any creative works you’re wanting to share, receive feedback, or just to learn creative writing skills, we encourage you to attend.

For the ZOOM link, email the University Writing center ([email protected])
Let’s get writing📝

Thinking about applying to graduate school? (We think you should 😉). The English Graduate program will be hosting our Gr...
09/09/2026

Thinking about applying to graduate school? (We think you should 😉).
The English Graduate program will be hosting our Graduate Program Applications Workshop. Whether you’re an undergraduate applying to a Masters program, or a Masters student applying to PhD programs, this is a great opportunity to meet with mentors and collect feedback on your materials!
(We ask that you bring sample drafts of statements of purpose, academic CV, or any writing samples, etc).
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