Notre Dame MFA in Creative Writing

04/10/2026

Joyelle McSweeney, the William P. and Hazel B.…

04/09/2026

"Sitting at my kitchen table among piles of Legos, stickers, half-made Valentines, and sticky books of Surrealist women's poetry in translation, I find myself suddenly electrified, as if the Universe had lowered her star-cloak and looked me dead in the eye. I now wear an eel for a stole, an eel I stole from Heaven. I feel transformed, elated, and charged with a very large charge."

CONGRATULATIONS goes to Professor Joyelle McSweeney! She was just awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize from Yale University!

The Windham-Campbell Prizes call attention to literary achievement and provide writers with the opportunity to focus on their work independent of financial concerns.

https://windhamcampbell.org/recipients/mcsweeney-joyelle

03/27/2026

"'Writing is really solitary,' she admits. The stories she wrote, while fiction, were so personal to her own experience that she worried they wouldn’t resonate with an audience that existed outside her own head. But in meeting and talking with readers, her fears were quickly diminished. 'I found the stories spoke to all different kinds of people.'"

Women Who Inspire: Dionne Irving Bremyer

This story is part of Notre Dame Global's series titled

03/24/2026

MFA student Kiprop Kimutai's essay, "A Stranger in Saint-Paul De Vence" has been translated into Dutch (Een maand in het Frankrijk van James Baldwin) for Holland's 360 Magazine.

https://www.360magazine.nl/james-badwin-vence/

You can read the original essay (which was a finalist for the 2025 True Story Award) at the link below:

https://debunk.media/quarterly/a-stranger-in-saint-paul-de-vence/

Schrijver Kiprop Kimutai reist af naar een afgelegen dorp in Frankrijk om in de voetsporen van James Baldwin te treden.

03/13/2026

Congratulations Joyelle McSweeney!

Our Spring issue is here—featuring interviews with Sarah Schulman and Darryl Pinckney, prose by Tao Lin and Yu Hua, poetry by Inger Christensen and Joyelle McSweeney, art by Cauleen Smith, a cover by Cecily Brown, and more. https://subscribe.theparisreview.org/flex/TPR/MAIN/

03/03/2026

Professor Johannes Göransson will be on a panel at this week's AWP conference in Baltimore, Maryland:

The Art of Editing Translations: Exploration & Guidance, Sponsored by CLMP

Thursday, March 5, 2026
1:45pm - 3:00pm

This panel explores the work of editing translations, highlighting the editor’s role in bringing global literature to new audiences. Panelists will discuss the creative and ethical negotiations at the heart of editing translations. How can editors select work from different cultures with care? How can translations be framed with awareness and enthusiasm? How much play is there in shaping a translation? The panel will share diverse approaches that support cross-cultural exchange and connection.

Speaker(s):

Moderator: Jennifer Kronovet Presenter: Michelle Gil-Montero Presenter: Johannes Goransson Presenter: Aditi Machado

Publishing, Editing & Technology Panel Discussion

Location: Room 323, Level 300, Baltimore Convention Center

03/03/2026

Kate Marshall…

03/01/2026

If you'll be in Baltimore next week for AWP, stop by Booth 640 and check out all the latest offerings from Notre Dame Review, Action Books, and Notre Dame's Creative Writing program.

Issue 60 of the Notre Dame Review is an enthralling combination of translations and original works. This issue features translations of works by Hélène Sanguinetti, Mehrdad Fallah, and César Vallejo, to name a few. Additionally, issue 60 includes poetry by Iris Lee, henry 7. reneau, jr., and Samuel Amadon to delight during long nights. We also offer a compelling mix of fiction, essays, and reviews that will expand spirit and mind.

ndreview.nd.edu/

02/25/2026

Today at 5pm! In collaboration with the Arts Initiative, the Dynamic Translation Lab, and the Franco Family Institute for Liberal Arts and the Public Good, the Creative Writing Series invites you to an evening with interdisciplinary artist Chang Yuchen. She will be giving a talk called "Coral Dictionary."

When: Wed Feb 25, 2026, 5:00 pm
Where: Annenberg Auditorium, Snite Research Center for the Visual Arts

Chang Yuchen works in an interdisciplinary manner - writing as weaving, drawing as translation, teaching as hospitality, commerce as social experiment and publishing as a dandelion spreading its seeds. Yuchen is also an advocate for the art of her mother, Jin Mei. Yuchen was a recipient of New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, Queens Art Fund New Work Grant, Poetry Project Curatorial Fellowship, Huayu Youth Award, Luminarts Fellowship, etc. She has shown/performed her work at Walker Art Center, Beijing Commune, By Art Matter, Carnegie Museum of Art, Amant, Artists Space, UCCA Dune, Para Site, Taikwun Contemporary. She was an artist in residence at Smack Mellon, Asymmetry Art Foundation, MASS MoCA, Museum of Art and Design, Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop. Yuchen has written for publications including Heichi Magazine, Press and Fold, Art in Print, and Randian.

https://english.nd.edu/news-events/events/2026/02/25/yuchen-chang/

02/23/2026

Author Candice Wuehle recommends her favorite titles from the Action Books catalog!

New installment of Action Books' Stockroom Picks feat. Candice Wuehle! Click below for her favorite AB catalog recommendations!

https://actionbooks.org/2026/02/stockroom-picks-presents-candice-wuehle-curated-by-miharu-yano/