News from the School of IAS
Category: Creative Writing and Poetics
IAS students launch 2021 issue of Clamor
Last week, IAS students gathered in person and online to celebrate the launch of the 2021 edition of Clamor, UW Bothell's literary and arts journal. This year the editors worked entirely remotely on this intensive collaborative project, and you can read more about their process in this profile of the journal by Maria Lamarca Anderson, which features interviews with editors Sanika Nalgirkar and Jennifer Dormier ...
June 14, 2021
Amaranth Borsuk’s libretto “The Familiar Spirit” performed at live virtual concert INTERSPACE
On June 5 virtual concertgoers experienced haunting sounds and images emanating from their screens during INTERSPACE, a unique live-streamed concert experience combining new choral compositions and electronic music. A live performance tailored to virtual delivery, the concert featured 7 works designed to showcase the powerful beauty of latency, layers, loops, and textures and was a collaboration between ...
June 8, 2021
Coastal Poets Film Festival: Navigating creative practice within a pandemic
One year into the throes of a pandemic and I missed live poetry readings. Severely. There was a sense of estrangement from Seattle’s caring literary community. Plus, I felt that undying hunger to express and connect with others through the power of metaphor. These were some of the reasons why I curated the Coastal Poets Film Festival. This event was livestreamed on YouTube with pre-recorded video poems by five genre-bending writers, including Allison Morton, Simon Wolf, Brent Cox, Shelby Handler and myself. The film festival ...
June 7, 2021
MFA Alumni Speak at annual “Life After the MFA” Event
On Wednesday May 26th, Woogee Bae (2019), Travis Sharp (2015), and Natalie Singer (2016) joined current MFA students and alumni on Zoom to speak about their paths to and through the MFA. They spoke about how they came to graduate study in creative writing and poetics, how their time in the program shifted the course of their writing and careers, how ...
June 1, 2021
Ching-In Chen: What if?
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen teaches in the MFA program in Creative Writing & Poetics. In "My Story: What if," Chen reflects on their experience as a community organizer, having worked in Asian American communities across the nation.
May 17, 2021
Rebecca Brown’s “A Vision” translated into Japanese
IAS faculty member Rebecca Brown’s story “A Vision" has just been translated into Japanese by Motoyuki Shibata and published in a two volume set of English language stories (Kenkyusha).
May 17, 2021
Ching-In Chen publishes “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism”
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s lyric essay “The work of breathing: Pushing against perfectionism” was published for the Being Lazy and Slowing Down blog. Being Lazy and Slowing Down was started by Dr. Kimine Mayuzumi and Dr. Riyad A. Shahjahan as a way to ...
May 5, 2021
Ching-In Chen presents at “Creative Politics, Political Poetics” roundtable
IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen spoke about the intersection of their activism, literary and academic engagement, and community building at the “Creative Politics, Political Poetics: An Ecology of Change” roundtable. Chen joined ...
April 19, 2021
MFA candidate Troy Landrum, Jr publishes in South Seattle Emerald
Troy Landrum, Jr recently published a work of short fiction, “The New Life,” in the South Seattle Emerald. Landrum is a second-year candidate in the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program, currently completing his thesis, a work of historical fiction that traces the Great Migration through the history of a Black family. In addition to his writing ...
April 12, 2021
Ted Hiebert co-hosts 2021 World Telekinesis Competition
IAS faculty member Ted Hiebert co-hosted the 2021 World Telekinesis Competition, an organized tournament in which teams from around the world compete to influence the behavior of a candle, using the power of their minds alone. 16 teams from around the world ...
March 31, 2021