Announcing a Columbia College Chicago End-Of-Semester Reading

Friends of the Columbia College MFA Programs:  in celebrating the hard work done by graduate Nonfiction and Poetry students at Columbia College Chicago, The Book Cellar (4736 N. Lincoln Ave.) shows its support by hosting an end of semester reading for poets and essayists looking to showcase their work.

Are you a poet who’s interested in meeting a few Nonfiction students?  An essayist looking to mingle with some poets?  Here’s your chance.  Join us at The Book Cellar in Lincoln Square on Saturday, December 11 from 7 to 9 p.m. for good food, great drinks and a wonderful reading by Columbia’s MFA students.  Time slots will be limited to nine minutes per reader.

The Book Cellar is located at 4736-38 N. Lincoln Ave. in Lincoln Square

Nonfiction Students Visit Iowa Conference

Last week a few lucky MFA students visited the University of Iowa, where famed writers from all over gathered for the university’s somewhat-annual NonfictioNow Conference.  The conference, similar to AWP’s annual conference, featured panelists and guest readers from Alison Bechdel to David Shields to Rebecca Solnit to Columbia’s very own David Lazar.  The students confessed that, whether sitting in on a riveting panel or meeting with a guest speaker, their time in Iowa was well-spent.  

Micah McCrary Publishes New Review in Bookslut

MFA Candidate Micah McCrary has published a new review of Joyce Carol Oates' In Rough Country:  Essays and Reviews in this month's issue of Bookslut.  Feel free to give it a read here and, of course, check out Oates' new book!