Writing Center tutor imagines a career, plans to graduate in three years

January 31, 2025.Reading time 14 minutes.

Parker’s stories and poems focus on experimental forms and themes of family. She enjoys writing sci-fi and fantasy — like she has since she was a kid — but her interests in poetry, literary fiction and visual storytelling are expanding.

Attention English and Creative Writing students: Poetry competition open for 2023 Art Song Festival

May 2, 2022.Reading time 2 minutes.

Piano accompanies a singer performing an original piece at the Art Song Festival.

The competition is open to all currently enrolled Fresno State English and Creative Writing undergraduate and graduate students.

#TBT Sherley Anne Williams 1986 reading at Fresno State

June 18, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Sherley Anne Williams - February 5, 1986, in the Conley Art Auditorium (CA 101)

“I hope that in the poems that I read tonight, about Fresno and the Valley, that you will recognize some of the landscape and some of the experiences.” – Sherley Anne Williams, February 5, 1986

Kudos to Fresno Writers – April/May 2020

June 11, 2020.Reading time 26 minutes.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters - Creative Writing Program and Department of English.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a regular series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.

Fresno State Creative Writing students perform at 2020 Rogue Festival

February 18, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Creative writing students from the Fresno State Master of Fine Arts program will headline the “Fresno Writers Live” performances at the 2020 Rogue Festival, scheduled March 6 through 14 in Fresno’s Tower District.

‘Normal’ magazine moves to online-only publication

August 6, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

Fresno State’s locally grown, nationally known literary magazine, The Normal School, will become an online-only publication starting this fall, ending an 11-year run as a printed periodical. The Spring/Summer 2019 issue of the magazine, due to hit bookstores by late August, will be its last physical issue.

Kudos to Fresno Writers: June July 2019

August 2, 2019.Reading time 9 minutes.

Kudos to #FresnoWriters is a monthly series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English at Fresno State.

The inaugural Sherley Anne Williams and Lawson Fusao Inada Writing Contest

July 31, 2019.Reading time 6 minutes.

In these writings, the authors often achieved that highest accomplishment of art: they worked with the raw material of pain–their own or the world’s–and transmuted it into a thing of beauty.

Summer Arts to host New York Times best-selling authors

July 18, 2019.Reading time 1 minute.

Join famed authors Terese Marie Mailhot and Lidia Yuknavitch at 7 p.m., Saturday, July 20, at the John Wright Theatre for an evening of readings from their acclaimed memoirs.

Creative Writing Alumni Chapter presents a literary reading in the Tower District

January 25, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Michelle Brittan Rosado, Brian Dunlap and Tanya Nichols

The Fresno State Creative Writing Alumni Chapter presents “Hot Off the Press 3” from 4 to 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 at Full Circle Olympic, 1426 N. Van Ness Ave., in the Tower District.