Creative Writing

  • Vanderbilt University

    Poet-memoirist Nick Flynn to read at Vanderbilt University

    Writer Nick Flynn will read from his poetry Nov. 10 as part of Vanderbilt Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writing Series. Read More

    Nov 2, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    Faculty featured at Southern Festival of Books Oct. 14-16

    Several Vanderbilt faculty members will be featured at this year’s Southern Festival of Books, a celebration of authors, writing and reading. The annual three-day event takes place in downtown Nashville at Legislative Plaza and the Tennessee Capitol Building Oct. 14-16. The festival will feature dozens of authors, including novelists… Read More

    Oct 11, 2011

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    Kudos

    Tracy Barrett (Vanderbilt) Tracy Barrett, senior lecturer in Italian, has written Dark of the Moon, a re-telling of the Theseus myth for young adult readers, published by Harcourt Children’s Books. Leonard Bickman, the Betts Chair and professor… Read More

    Oct 3, 2011

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    National Book Award winners to read from work at Vanderbilt

    Terrance Hayes and Jaimy Gordon, who each won the National Book Award last spring, will read from their work Sept. 22 at Vanderbilt University as part of the Creative Writing Program’s Gertrude and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series. Read More

    Sep 6, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    In Conversation with Billy Collins

    The former U.S. poet laureate discusses his upcoming Vanderbilt residency and the importance of a poem’s ‘shape’ In the opinion of poet Billy Collins, poetry needs to be everywhere. “I think ambushing people with poems on billboards, buses,… Read More

    Sep 1, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    Kudos

    Read about Vanderbilt faculty, staff, student and alumni's latest awards, appointments and achievements Read More

    Jun 2, 2011

  • Vanderbilt University

    “Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . .”: What scholars can learn from novelists – and journalists – about storytelling

    Watch video of the Feb. 24 talk by Adam Hochschild, author and journalist, titled “‘Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . .’: What Scholars Can Learn from Novelists–and Journalists–about Storytelling.” Hochschild is an award-winning author of six books, including King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial… Read More

    Feb 25, 2011

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    Vanderbilt’s Tony Earley elected to Fellowship of Southern Writers

    Tony Earley The Blue Star novelist joins group that has included James Dickey, Robert Penn Warren The Fellowship of Southern Writers has elected novelist Tony Earley, a professor at Vanderbilt University, as a member. The FSW was founded in 1987 to recognize and encourage literature in the South. Its… Read More

    Nov 23, 2010

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    Video: “Motivation, Creativity and (Not) Writing”

    Watch video of Paul Silvia speaking about “Motivation, Creativity, and (Not) Writing,” Nov. 4 at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center. Silvia, associate professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, is the author of How to Write A Lot: A Practical Guide to Productive… Read More

    Nov 5, 2010

  • Vanderbilt University

    Distinguished lineup of authors to appear at Vanderbilt this fall

    A series of free public readings at Vanderbilt University will kick off this fall with a Sept. 16 appearance by Edward Hirsch, poet, a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and President of the Guggenheim Foundation. Read More

    Sep 2, 2010