Outstanding Achievement!-UWM English Professor Liam Callanan’s novel, Paris by the Book, was selected an outstanding book by an author with a Wisconsin connection by the Wisconsin Library Association Literary Awards Committee. Paris by the Book will be included on Outstanding Achievement lists that will be... Read More
2019 AWP National Program Director’s Prize: Furrow-Furrow, the undergraduate literary magazine sponsored by the Department of English at UWM, won the National Program Directors’ Prize for Content from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, the foremost organization of academic and creative writing programs in the United States.... Read More
“Red Zone” by Plan C student Beatrice Szymkowiak-Congratulations to Beatrice Szymkowiak on the publication of her chapbook Red Zone Finishing Line Press released “Red Zone,” a chapbook of poems by first-year Plan C student Beatrice Szymkowiak. Called “a complex meditation on the destructiveness of war and the persistence of... Read More
Spotlight on Work of Film Studies Students and Alumni-October’s L&S newsletter features Senior Hugo Ljungback and Christian Balistreri who graduated from English and Film Studies in 2018. Both are founding members of the Moving Image Society, the student organization dedicated to preserving and circulating the UWM Film Studies... Read More
Field Trip Aboard the Denis Sullivan Schooner-October 13th, 2018 English 326, “The Development of the Novel: The Novel and the Sea.” Professor Kincaid On Saturday, October 13th, students boarded Milwaukee’s stunning nineteenth-century three-masted schooner, the Denis Sullivan, in order to experience firsthand life aboard a tall... Read More
Congratulations to Fall Award Winners-Congratulations to those English Department Faculty who will receive awards at today’s UWM Fall Awards Ceremony (https://uwm.edu/secu/wp-content/uploads/sites/122/2018/09/18-Fall-Awards-Program.pdf). This ceremony is at 2:00 in the Union’s Wisconsin Room Margaret Noodin, UWM Faculty Distinguished University Service Awar Kimberly Blaeser, UWM Faculty Distinguished... Read More
José Lanters presents The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes-On October 20, English department professor José Lanters will be presenting her new work, The Theatre of Thomas Kilroy: No Absolutes at County Clare Irish Inn at 3pm.Members of Milwaukee Irish Arts will read a scene from The Death and Resurrection... Read More
11/07/2019 – United We Read: Denny, Henry, Roy, and Dunham-Thursday 11/07/2019 @7:30pm Woodland Pattern Book Center 720 E. Locust Street Milwaukee, WI 53212 FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC United We Read is the Graduate Creative Writing Program’s student-faculty reading series that takes place in venues throughout the community.... Read More
10/17/2019 – Poetry Reading: Derrick Harriell-Thursday, October 17, 2019 @7:30pm – 10:30pm Hefter Center 3271 North Lake Drive Please join us in celebrating 50 years of Creative Writing at UWM with a reading by poet and essayist Derrick Harriell. Derrick Harriell resides in Oxford MS... Read More
10/16/2019 – 10 x 5: Celebration and Alumni Reading-Wednesday, October 16, 2019 @7:30 pm Greene Hall 148 UWM Creative Writing Program’s 50th Anniversary Celebration Featuring recollections from 50 years of our graduate Creative Writing Program and a showcase of 10 alumni reading for 5 minutes each, mixed with... Read More
Cream City Review Live-Please join us for a literary reading with Gail Aronson, Lenea Grace, and Rosebud Ben-Oni to celebrate the talented writing in UWM’s national literary journal, Cream City Review . Refreshments served at 7pm, Reading at 7:30pm. Gail Aronson’s work recently... Read More
Eat Local::Read Local-Since 2008, UWM English Department’s Eat Local:: Read Local has been celebrating the partnerships between local restaurants and poets from Milwaukee and Madison, WI.