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.

English symposium examines translation as cultural and political force

December 5, 2024.Reading time 5 minutes.

Author, translator, and University of Virginia associate professor Carmen Lamas will deliver the keynote address for Fresno State’s eighth annual Students of English Studies Association symposium on December 12 and 13. The theme for this year’s SESA symposium is “Translations.”

Creative Writing Program hosts pair of fall author readings

October 26, 2024.Reading time 3 minutes.

Taylor Brorby (left) and Brooke Champagne

Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing will host two author readings this fall — one featuring the program’s faculty authors, and one with a pair of acclaimed writers from the American South.

English Major Out in the World: Samantha Golden

October 21, 2024.Reading time 3 minutes.

Fresno State alumna Samantha Golden works at Gymnastics Beat in northwest Fresno, where she directs their recreation, tumbling, and gymnastics programs.

Fresno State alumna Samantha Golden works full-time as the recreation director at Gymnastics Beat and part-time as a writer for the Clovis Roundup community newspaper.

Alumni authors return to campus for Fresno Writers Summit

September 23, 2024.Reading time 4 minutes.

Photo: Hmong American poet Soul Vang. [Credit: May Yang-Vang.]

Fresno State’s Creative Writing Alumni Chapter, in collaboration with the Fresno Poets’ Association series, will present its second annual Fresno Writers Summit. The event celebrates new books by four alumni authors and features a keynote reading from trailblazing Hmong-American poet Soul Vang.

Levine Prize for Poetry announces new partnership, names 2023 winner

February 12, 2024.Reading time 7 minutes.

Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts Program in creative writing announced Southern California author William Archila won the 2023 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry book contest

Professor Emeritus Stanley Poss passes away at 96

January 30, 2024.Reading time 10 minutes.

Dr. Stanley Poss in 2014. Photo credit: John Alden/JA Photography

Dr. Stanley Poss, a Fresno State professor emeritus of English, passed away on Dec. 14, 2023, in Fresno. He was 96.

‘Lit Night’ event brings collaboration and original works to University Theatre stage

November 22, 2023.Reading time 5 minutes.

head shots of Soreath Hok, Yamille Moss and Emily Peacock

Fresno State’s Department of Theatre and Dance, in collaboration with the Department of English’s MFA Creative Writing Program, presents “Lit Night” at the Dec. 5 performance of “Seminar.”

New scholarship benefits English Department students

October 16, 2023.Reading time 18 minutes.

Two different photos of Alberto and Luis. On the left, he has a short beard, a flannel shirt, and is standing in front of a brick wall. On the right, he has a goatee, side part, blue hoodie, and is standing outside with trees behind him.

With $2,905 in initial gifts from 39 students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community friends — most of those coming during Fresno State’s annual Day of Giving campaign — the English Department successfully established the new English Department Scholarship fund in 2022.

MFA students perform at 2023 LitHop festival

October 10, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

More than 100 writers will gather in Fresno’s Tower District on Saturday, Oct. 14 for LitHop 2023, the city’s free literary festival.