Creative Writing Upcoming Events

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Wednesday, April 9, 2025

    • 7:00 pm
    • Gallery Art Bar | 119 W Main St, Urbana, IL 61801

    Join us for a reading by Graduate students in the MFA program in Creative Writing. This event will feature: Hannah Thorpe Mason McVeigh Justine Mercado Steven Bergmark

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Thursday, April 17, 2025

Sunday, April 20, 2025

    • 6:30 pm
    • Illini Union Room 314B

    In honor of National Poetry Month, Join us for An Evening with Poet Richard Blanco, our fifth U.S. Presidential Inaugural Poet, and author of many books including Homeland of My Body and How to Love a Country.

Thursday, April 24, 2025

Saturday, May 3, 2025

    • 1:00 pm
    • Illini Union Bookstore: Authors Corner

    Join us in hearing the work of students graduating with their MFA in Creative Writing. Featuring: Mattie Fash David Miller Justine Mercado Jason Pfister Erin Stoodley Hannah Lee Thorpe

Thursday, March 12, 2026

    • 4:30 pm
    • TBD

    A reading by Stephen Markley, made possible by the Robert J. and Katherin Carr visiting author series. Stephen Markley is the author of The Deluge, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as an Editor's choice. His previous books include the critically acclaimed bestseller Ohio, as well as Publish this Book and Tales of Iceland. He has also written for the hulu comedy