Ryan Spooner Wins Cutbank Lyric Essay Contest

Ryan Spooner's essay "Ineffable" was selected as the winning entry for the 2011 Big Fish Lyric Essay contest at Cutbank. The essay will be published online and in the upcoming print issue this winter. Congratulations Ryan!

Nonfiction Students to Read at Printer's Row Lit Fest

Just around the corner, on June 4 and 5, MFA candidates in Columbia's Nonfiction Program will read from their work at Chicago's annual Printer's Row Lit Fest and Book Fair. Candidates Micah McCrary, Ryan Spooner, and Jennifer Tatum-Cotamagaña will have selections of essays and/or poetry to be read at the festival, located along Dearborn St. between Polk and Harrison streets.

Also in the lineup are recent Poetry Program grads and MFA candidates Jeffrey Allen, Stephen Danos, Liz Chereskin, Steve Roggenbuck, Holly Amos, Ryan Courtwright and Thomas Nowak.

The Printer's Row Lit Fest will take place from 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. on June 4 and 5. Please come out to show your support for our students and join in on the fun!

View the full schedule of events here.

Nonfiction Students Host Bomb & Bird May 19th

Here it comes with a keening falsetto: 

 

BOMB & BIRD

an open-mic reading series dead-set on sacrificing silence.

Half garden path, half freight-train derailment, BOMB & BIRD wants your sweaty palms, your dry throat, and your nervous tics.

We want your poem, your prose, your cereal box top. Give us your best. Give us your worst.

We'll give you five minutes.

Reading spots are first-come, first-served.

Here we are, gussied in our itchy polyester, asking you to join us.

When?
7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 19

Where?
Innertown Pub, 1935 West Thomas Street.

There you are, coy and considering, and with nothing to do but show up, sign up, and speak up.