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What Are You Going to Do with That Degree?: Making Healthy Undergraduate Programs
Saturday, March 26, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Aside from workshops, what can undergraduate creative writing programs offer students to create a vibrant and engaging community? The panel will discuss undergrad literary journals, navigating budget issues associated with reading series, and enticing cash-strapped students to participate in outside activities. We’ll consider how a program can create an international sense of community as well as offering local service opportunities for writers—all while bearing in mind postgraduate nerves.
Participants
Andrew Brininstool is the recipient of a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Prose. He is the author of the short story collection Crude Sketches Done in Quick Succession.
Oindrila Mukherjee (she/her) teaches at Grand Valley State University. She has a PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. Her work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online, Salon, Los Angeles Review of Books, and Ecotone. A contributing editor for Aster(ix), she writes a book series for Scroll.in.
Kiki Petrosino is professor of poetry at the University of Virginia. She is the author of four books of poetry, including White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia and Witch Wife. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Literature.
Glenn Shaheen is the author of four books, most recently, the fiction collection Carnivalia. He teaches at Prairie View A&M University and is the executive dIrector of the Radius of Arab American Writers.
Sarah Anne Strickley is the author of two books of prose: Sister and Fall Together. She teaches creative writing and serves as faculty editor of Miracle Monocle at the University of Louisville. She's a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati.
