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The Creative Writing opening social, Mic Check, will take place on Tuesday, September 17 at 6:30 pm on the TSC Patio. Attend and enjoy a live band and open mic

Join Poet and University of Alabama Professor Adam Vines on Thursday, August 29th for a reading at 12 pm followed by a Master Class at 3 pm. All are invited.

Sweet Branch Library's Author in the House series will feature English Department faculty member and incoming Logan City Poet Laureate this upcoming Thursday, July 25 for an evening of reading and conversation.

The June 15 Summer Symposium, sponsored by USU English and the League of Utah Writers, features a dozen faculty and students from the Department of English, including Star Coulbrooke, the current Logan City Poet Laureate, and Shanan Ballam, who was named ...

Saturday, June 15 from 9:30 am - 5:30 pm. Register now for the 2019 Summer Writers Symposium and participate in a full day of classes, presentations, and critique sessions from experienced writers.

2019 May Swenson Walkabout will take place on Thursday, May 16, at 5:30 pm in the Logan City Cemetary. This event is free and open to the public!

Native American Culinary Association founder, Chef Nephi Craig, is coming to Utah State University. Along with sharing indigenous foodways, Craig will meet with folklore, nutrition, and plant, soils, and climate students.

Robin Behn has a poetry reading scheduled for Wednesday, Feb. 6th at 1:30 pm in LIB 101- with a workshop to follow at 3:30 pm.

Helicon West Presents "WINTER IS ICUMEN IN" by students of Michael Sowder.

Ted Van Alst is the director of Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies at Portland State University. On November 8th, Ted will give a lecture at 11:30 am called "The Politics of Language in Indigenous Cinema", and later that day at 5:00 pm, he wil...

Star Coulbrooke will be presenting her newest poetry collection on September 26, 2018

Dr. Kinkead presents at Undergraduate Research Biennial Conference in Washington DC.

Utah Poet Laureate

Utah Symposium on the Digital Humanities

USU's English Dept Creative Writing Club schedule

Abraham Smith visits USU

Come enjoy some light refreshments while listening to some amazing writers. Star Coulbrooke, Heidi Blankenship and Margaret Pettis will be reading at The Bluebird Restaurant January 14, 2018 from 6:00-8:00pm.

USU Speaker Series, Rants from the Hill.

A tribute to USU President Noelle Cockett.

Each year in conjunction with the Leonard Arrington Mormon History Lecture, the Library sponsors a writing contest. Students can win cash prizes up to $1,000 for attending the lecture and writing an essay.

The entire one-day conference is filled with many other break-out sessions that you might be interested in.

A poetry walkabout with logan poet laureate star coulbrooke.

His goal, he says, is “to bring Vietnamese voices to the United States, to tell their stories in a way that’s moving, in beautiful language and with emotion that allows us to make connections with these characters.”

the July 2017 edition of the USU Writing Center's rotating art exhibit, featuring digital paintings by student Kristin Tingey.

Marissa Shirley Allen, an Undergraduate Research Fellow who works as a tutor in the Writing Center, and Professor Joyce Kinkead have a feature article in the June issue of Teacher Librarian, a journal for school library professionals.

Thin Spines of Memory seems to me to be less an autobiographical work than a poetic discourse on the role of the past and recollection in every human life, any human life.

Cache Valley Community Writing Center Workshops are held in the Logan Library from 5-6 pm in the Bridger Room. Free one-on-one tutoring is available from 6-7 pm.

Star will be reading with local poets.

The Finch Lane Gallery in Salt Lake’s Reservoir Park will host the READ LOCAL Reading Series on Thursday, June 29, at 7 p.m.

On May 30th, Geneva Harline will begin working with the School of Graduate Studies in the position of a Coordinator of Programs III. In this position, she will be assisting graduate students with questions as well as performing various tasks as assigned b...

The 2017 May Swenson Memorial Poetry Walkabout with Logan City Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke.

Students who receive honors in English have completed a rigorous set of courses, including independent study with faculty mentors, a written thesis, and a public presentation.

Professor Sonia Manuel-Dupont, who co-chairs the English Education Curriculum Committee said, “Each year, these students have provided advice that enabled us to make real changes in the program.”

Four English classes benefitted this academic year from Undergraduate Teaching Fellows (UTFs). The UTF Program was established in 1991 and is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

Utah State University made a great showing at the annual Western States Folklore Society meeting this past week in Eugene, Oregon. Participants mingled with scholars from across the country for two days of conversation, scholarship, and fun.

Avery Edenfield Congratulations to Avery Edenfield who was just accepted to host a workshop titled "The importance of writing practice in cooperatives" at the Association for Cooperative Educators Institute in July 2017.

Adrian Thomson is a sophomore majoring in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. He strives to become an author of young adult science fiction, action adventure and fantasy literature, a goal he has pushed toward all his life.

English Symposium announcement

The winners of the Utah State University creative writing contest at 7 pm in the Merrill-Cazier Library 101.

Congratulations to Andrea Krebs (BA English 2016) who will be entering a graduate program in Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois this fall.

The Student Research Symposium is Utah State University’s largest showcase of student research. SRS both celebrates student research and improves students’ ability to communicate their research.

Braden Steel, an undergraduate here at Utah State University, was an intern for the More Good Foundation—an organization that promotes LDS material.

The April 2017 edition of the USU Writing Center's rotating art exhibit presents artwork done by student Marissa Lords.

The antifascist doxxing guru thinks hate should have consequences. But doxxing anyone is morally sticky.

Several student researchers from the College of Humanities and Social Sciences were selected to present at Ignite USU. Ignite is USU's premier student speaking event and Research Week's culminating event. Students will discuss how they draw strength fro

Jessica Rivera-Mueller and Susan Andersen are co-directors of the Bennion Teachers' Workshop, an annual summer workshop sponsored by the USU Mountain West Center for Regional Studies.

The USU Bull Pen Creative Writing Club performed a Slam Poetry event for a standing-room-only crowd at Helicon West on Thursday, March 23, at the Logan Library. Featured poets were Millie Tullis, Nate Hardy, Keith Wilson, Andrea Nelson, Shaun Anderson, Ma...

Congratulatons to our colleague, Naomie Barnes, who has been accepted into the Folklore PhD program at Memorial University in Newfoundland, Canada.

A Role Reinvented: Branching Out of the Usual and Discovering the Best By Julia Stock, USU English Major

These are some of the moments USU English Professor Jennifer Sinor shares about her life in her book “Ordinary Trauma: A Memoir.” The 279-page book, first conceived when Sinor was a doctoral student at the University of Michigan, examines life events that...

The Sue Samuelson Award is given each year by the Foodways Section to recognize outstanding student work that is based on original fieldwork or research and that uses current folkloric approaches to the analysis and interpretation of foodways.

In this workshop, participants will look at how poems and stories can communicate scientific facts/terms/ideas on an emotional level, making the material relatable and therefore memorable. Writing and sharing will follow.

The March 2017 edition of the USU Writing Center's rotating art exhibit features a series by student Hayden Laver.

The Bull Pen Slam Event Poster

Cache Valley Community Writing Center Workshops are held in the Logan Library from 5-6 pm in the Bridger Room. Free one-on-one tutoring is available from 6-7 pm.

Coralie Beyers, who taught in the English Department from 1965 to 1988, passed away February 17, 2017. In addition to teaching American literature, Honors classes, and composition, she contributed papers to the Western American Literature Association and ...

Kirsten Bluth, an American Studies Major at USU, was a F.U.N. (Fernbank Ultimate Naturalist) Education at the Fernbank Museum of Natural History in Atlanta, Georgia during the summer of 2016.

Stories are models of how to live. We often look to how others do things in order to determine how we should do things.

Write @ the Logan Library, the library’s inaugural daylong writer’s conference took place Saturday, January 28, 2017.

Students can earn 1 academic credit of English 4900 for every 40 hours they spend writing, editing, researching, managing social media, designing documents, maintaining and creating websites, tutoring, and/or practicing other major-related skills.

The Bull Pen's Spring 2017 Schedule.

A great opportunity for emerging writers to have their work vetted by a talented panel of judges, well-known in their respective fields.

SUBMIT YOUR ENTRIES NOW! USU CREATIVE WRITING and ART & PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST Winning entries featured in a special issue of Sink Hollow Literary Journal

Congratulations to Alum Eric Stephens - 2017 ATTW (Association of Teachers of Technical Writing) Graduate Research Award Winner

Open microphone. Free. Caffe Ibis Coffee. Uncensored.

The Bull Pen's OPENING SOCIAL with Treats and Writing Games.

The event is organized to help prepare USU undergraduates come to get a better grasp on the field of medicine and the process of applying to med school.

Please join us for readings by award-winning writers Chadd VanZanten, Isaac Timm, Felicia Rose, Emily Wheeler, and Jeff Bateman.

Brittney Mackins (BS English, 2014) is currently working in Allentown, Pennsylvania as a part-time competitive team coach at Parkette gymnastics, where she is responsible for the level 6 team (children between 8-11 years old).

Cache Valley Community Writing Center Workshops are held in the Logan Library from 5-6 pm in the Bridger Room.

Are you interested in studying abroad? Go to Morocco this summer to conduct community-based research about civil society organizations and earn three credits in English (ENGL 5490) or sociology (SOC 4800).

On November 11, English teachers across the state gathered for the Utah Council of Teachers of English conference at the Jordan Commons Megaplex Theatre in Sandy, Utah.

At the annual meeting of the American Studies Association in Denver in November 2016, Melody Graulich was part of an international panel and delivered a paper, "Who is Camping in Yellowstone?: The Northern Pacific Railroad, Northwest Indigenous Nations, a...

Dr. Christine Cooper-Rompato has published two articles this semester.

Congratulations to Beth Shirley and Jared Colton who have an article published in the Present Tense journal.

Since 1958, the Utah Original Writing Competition has awarded Utah writers for works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry in a variety of forms. The competition’s mission is to aid Utah writers on their path to publication and broader recognition.

On October 11, 2016, English Professor Paul Crumbley presented a paper at the University of Portsmouth, England, as part of the University of Portsmouth Center for Literary Studies Seminar Series.

Katie Fredrickson, who was graduated from USU in 2010 with Honors, was named the Bill and Carol Strong Teacher of the Year in the new teacher category by the Utah Council of Teachers of English (UCTE) at its fall conference November 11, 2016, in Salt Lake...

Helicon West Thursday, Nov. 10th 7:00 pm Logan Library Bridger Room, 255 North Main Free and open to the public. Uncensored.

The November 2016 edition of the USU Writing Center’s rotating art exhibit features photography by student Hannah Weaver.

Logan City Poet Laureate Star Coulbrooke will guide participants on a short walk by the river after sunset to read poems and gather sensory details for writing about the natural world.

This year’s conference was held in conjunction with the International Society for Folk Narrative Research annual meeting and included scholars from around the globe, including Japan, Finland, Estonia, Israel, India, Stockholm, Switzerland, Canada, Scotlan...

Melody Graulich gave an invited lecture in the Ellis Speaker Series at Northern Michigan University on October 20, 2016. It was titled, “The Night the Stars Fell: Historical Convergences and Cross-Racial Histories on the Southern Plains.”

To benefit braille literacy in Utah Saturday, November 5th 4:00 pm 784 S. Riverwalk Parkway, Logan, UT

Karen Brennan & Lex Williford at Helicon West Thursday, October 27, 2016 7:00 pm Logan Library Bridger Room (255 North Main)

Avery Edenfield has been accepted to host a workshop for the North American Students of Cooperation (NASCO) 2017 Cooperative Education & Training Institute in Ann Arbor, MI, this November.

Saturday, October 22, 2016 7:00 pm Huntsmal Hall 226 $2 or two cans of food

Ben Gunsberg was invited to read his poetry and lead a master class at the Alabama School of the Fine Arts, October 6-7, 2016. Dr. Gunsberg read from his poetry chapbook, Rhapsodies with Portraits, and directed a seminar for creative writing students on t...