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Dogwood Bloom Reading Series Features Christina Jones, Maggie Messitt, Oct. 4

The Dogwood Bloom Reading Series kicks off this Friday, Oct. 4,  at 6:30 p.m. in the Faculty Commons, third floor, Alden Library. Fiction writer Christina Jones and essayist Maggie Messitt are our featured readers. “Come on out and show your support!” says Dinty W. Moore, Director of Creative Writing at […]

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October 4, 2013 at 8:25 amEvents

Students, Faculty, Alumni Noted in ‘Best American Essays’

Three current members of the Ohio University Creative Writing community saw their essays listed as Notable Essays in the latest edition of Houghton Mifflin’s Best American Essays. Current Ph.D. candidate Kelly Sundberg was listed for her essay “Like Mourners’ Bread,” published in Slice; English and Creative Writing Post-Doc Alison Stine […]

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October 1, 2013 at 8:15 amResearch

Writer’s View from Rural South Africa Wins Duke Award

Writer’s View from Rural South Africa Wins Duke Award

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]

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August 2, 2013 at 3:02 pmNews

Moore’s Flash Nonfiction Book Earns Two ForeWord Awards

Moore’s Flash Nonfiction Book Earns Two ForeWord Awards

The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Nonfiction, a book edited last year by Professor Dinty W. Moore, was honored in two categories in the ForeWord Review’s 15th annual Book of the Year Awards announced June 28. Moore’s Flash Nonfiction book took Honorable Mention in the Anthologies and […]

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July 9, 2013 at 5:03 pmNews

Moore Named Final Judge for Indiana Review 1/2K Prize

Moore Named Final Judge for Indiana Review 1/2K Prize

  Dinty W. Moore, Professor and Director of Creative Writing, has been named the Final Judge for the Indiana Review’s 2013 1/2K Prize. Blogger Paul McVeigh notes: “Dinty W. Moore is author of The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, as well as the memoir Between Panic & […]

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June 20, 2013 at 8:54 amFaculty in the News In the News

Chronicle: The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search

Chronicle: The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search

The May 19 Chronicle of Higher Education article “The Long Odds of the Faculty Job Search” featured a review of an Ohio University faculty search in the Department of English Language and Literature in the College of Arts & Sciences. The creative writing position was filled by Patrick O’Keeffe, whose […]

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May 21, 2013 at 4:11 pmFaculty in the News In the News News

Moore Leads Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

Moore Leads Kenyon Review Writers Workshop

  Dinty W. Moore, Ohio University Director of Creative Writing, is leading a literary nonfiction workshop at the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop in June. The Kenyon Review Writers Workshop focuses on the generation and revision of new work. Moore, professor of English in the College of Arts & Sciences, is the author of the […]

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May 20, 2013 at 4:05 pmNews