News from the School of IAS

Category: Creative Writing and Poetics

Amaranth Borsuk publishes article on design legend Barbara Stauffacher Solomon

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk has published a biographical essay outlining the life and work of artist Barbara "Bobbie" Stauffacher Solomon in the latest issue of The Improbable, an art newspaper published by Siglio Press for the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Borsuk became fascinated with the work and career of the boundary-breaking artist after ...

December 4, 2020

Ching-In Chen publishes Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published a new chapbook, Kundiman for Kin :: Information Retrieval for Monsters, which explores familial lineage for monsters and mutants with Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, an independent press which publishes poetic works showcasing “subtle and intense forms of public exchange and autonomous expressions—dynamic in awareness—luminous in form.” As a Finalist for The Leslie Scalapino Award ...

December 4, 2020

Ching-In Chen was awarded Course Development Grant

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen was awarded a 2020 Course Development Grant for their Autumn 2020 course, Breathing in a Time of Disaster (BISIA 311: Creative Writing Prose), from the Center for Global Studies at the University of Washington’s Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and the East Asia Center. The grant is an extremely competitive award that recognizes innovative teaching at the UW. This autumn ...

November 12, 2020

Ching-In Chen’s writings published in Foglifter

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s hybrid writings “En Route Family,” “’Registration Marks’ or ‘a kind of breathing vocabulary on a daily level’ and “No” were published in Foglifter, a literary magazine focused on queer and trans writing which recently was awarded a Whiting Literary Magazine Prize. Foglifter is a ...

October 9, 2020

Troy Landrum Jr. wins first Quarantine Book Club Fellowship

Troy Landrum Jr., second-year student in the UW Bothell MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program, is the winner of the first Quarantine Book Club Fellowship. This fellowship supports Troy’s four week long in-depth study of Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved as part of the Quarantine Book Club, a nationwide group of ...

October 9, 2020

MFA / Essay Press Announce third annual book contest

The MFA in Creative Writing and Poetics has just announced its third annual book contest with Essay press, with submissions open until December 5, 2020. This year's judge is Renee Gladman, a former keynote speaker at the MFA's Fall Convergence and previous visiting writer, who taught a graduate workshop at UW Bothell in spring 2016. Learn more about ...

October 8, 2020

Frances Lee and Stephanie Segura awarded Hugo Fellowships

IAS alumni Frances Lee (Master of Arts in Cultural Studies) and Stephanie Segura (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics) were recently awarded Hugo Fellowships for 2020-21. The Hugo Fellowship supports emerging writers, providing space and resources to four to six fellows in the Seattle area to complete a proposed project ...

October 8, 2020

Breka Blakeslee publishes Probably It Will Not Be Okay

IAS alum Breka Blakeslee (MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics, '15) has published their debut novel, Probably It Will Not Be Okay, which began its life as the author's MFA thesis. From the publisher's page: "Probably It Will Not Be Okay takes place at the end of the anthropocene. People and animals, what's left of them, share the ruins of a human city ...

October 6, 2020

Ching-In Chen publishes “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “Lantern Letter: a Zuihitsu" was published in Watch Your Head: Writers & Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis, a print anthology published by Coach House Books in conjunction with an online project that publishes writing and art about climate justice issues and the climate crisis. In Watch Your Head, poems, stories, essays, and artwork sound the alarm on ...

October 2, 2020