UTSA Creative Writing Program

Creative Nonfiction with Dr. Marisol Cortez—sign up now for this fall!

Advanced Poetry Workshop with Dr. Marisol Cortez—sign up this fall! 🖊️

Check out the UTSA drama program’s first production, Little Shop of Horrors, while you can!

Join the UT San Antonio Creative Writing Reading Series on April 8th at 7:30 PM on Main Campus, Mckinney Humanities Building (3.01.28) for XicanXfuturism: A Sci-Fi and Speculative Fiction Reading with contributors: Xicano Writer Scótt Russell Dúncan, Artist Luis Valderas, Poet Juan Manuel Pérez, Writer R.Ch.Garcia, and Writer Javier Guajardo.

XicanXfuturism: Gritos for Tomorrow Codex I is a codex of speculative futurist thought, art, comics, novellas, stories, flash fiction, poetry, and essays exploring the Xicanx tomorrow as our numbers and cultura grow today. Contributors include Xicanx sci-fi veterans, social justice thinkers, influential speculative artists, and trailblazing new writers charting the future for our gente: elindiocopyright1985, Osmani Ochoa, Luis Valderas, Pedro Iniguez, Martin Hill Ortiz, Ernesto Ayala, Angela Acosta, Juan Manuel Pérez, Erika Said Izaguirre, E.C.-Dukes, Ronnie Dukes, Patrick Fontes, Ernesto Mireles, Natalia Rivas, Sendy (Sail) Tapia, Juan G. Berumen, Irene Blea, Fabio Chee, R. Ch. Garcia, Scott Russell Duncan, El Henry Madrid, Victoria Bañales, Salvador Ayala, W.O. Torres, Joe Menchaca, Rocio Anica, Frederick Luis Aldama, Ricardo Tavarez, Catrióna Rueda Esquibel, Dante Olivas, Gerardo Aldana, Ernest Hogan, Javier Guajardo, M.M. Olivas, Joel Flores, and Samantha “Eggsy” J. and Colton “Cuca” Campbell.

Edited by Scott Russell Duncan and Jenny Irizary, this codex is not just a collection. It is a call, a vision, and a grito for the worlds we will walk upon.

Published by Riot of Roses.

FYI—Creative Writers! Submit your poems, stories, screenplays, etc.

Get ready for the 2026 COLFA Research Conference and Showcase! This annual event offers students at all levels (graduate and undergraduate) opportunities to showcase their original academic and creative work for a community of scholars, friends, and the community.

Why participate?

Share your small bit of genius, gain experience, build your resume, post to social media, boast to family and friends, and help build your academic community!

You already wrote the paper, created the artwork, learned the language. And you earned the “A.” You know it’s good. Why not share it with the world!

How can I apply?

To apply, visit our conference website. Link in comments.

Categories include:
Art
Creative Writing
Digital Projects and Storytelling
Film/Video (Submit your film)
Music Lecture-Performance
Oral Presentation
Poster Presentation
Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) - Graduate Students Only

The deadline to apply is this Friday, February 27, 2026

Questions?
For questions about attending or submitting your work, email [email protected]

We’re tabling today and got paid a visit by a special guest who picked out a bookmark

Join us for In conversation with Katie Gutierrez at the Maverick Carter House on Friday, February 6 at 7pm presented by UT San Antonio Creative Writing Program in partnership with@sa_geminiink
Katie Gutierrez is the bestselling author of the mystery novel MORE THAN YOU'LL EVER KNOW, a Good Morning America Book Club pick and Edgar Award finalist. Her essays and features have appeared in TIME, Texas Highways, Harper's Bazaar, and more. She has an MFA from Texas State University and lives in San Antonio, Texas. Gutierrez will be reading from her work and sharing her approach to writing in a conversation with Dr. Kimberly Garza with an audience Q&A and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.
Refreshments will be provided.
Location: The Maverick Carter House, 119 Taylor St., San Antonio 78205

In memory of Federico García Lorca, a poet slain by fascists in 1936. They can kill the singers, but they cannot kill the song.

We’ve got quite a few “classics” being adapted and redone in the theaters right now. Which ones are you looking forward to seeing? Which novels do you wish filmmakers would produce next?

Thoughts?

Plato wanted to ban poetry because of its distance from truth.

To this day, many philosophers favour straightforward, literal language which they think represents a singular truth.

But, by embracing and playing with language’s ambiguity, argues Magdalena Ostas, poetry recognises and evokes reality’s inexhaustibility.

This makes poetry a powerful way of doing philosophy – as Emily Dickinson’s poetic-philosophical investigation into the nature of the self demonstrates.

"Unlike the poets, philosophers aim to touch the singular truth with their words. Poets do something different: they embrace the ambiguity," writes Ostas.

Tap the link to read more now: https://iai.tv/articles/poetry-is-philosophy-auid-2899