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.

Kudos to Fresno Writers — Summer 2024

September 9, 2024.Reading time 31 minutes.

From left, Fresno State MFA alumni Tiffany Crum, Samina Najmi, and Delaney R. Whitebird Olmo have all announced their debut books will be published in 2025. Kudos to #FresnoWriters is an ongoing series on the Fresno State MFA blog, celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Creative Writing Program and Department […]

Three creative writing alumni publish debut books in 2022

January 13, 2023.Reading time 4 minutes.

Aaliyah Green, Pilar Christiana Graham and Navdeep Singh Dhillon

Three alumni authors from Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing published their debut books in 2022.

Kudos to Fresno Writers – October/November 2020

January 19, 2021.Reading time 14 minutes.

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.

Creative writing and art deeply shape these six English graduates

May 21, 2020.Reading time 22 minutes.

Rodolfo Avelar, Jessica Hallstrom, Bekah Izard, Graciela Sierra-Moreno, Gaoyong Yang-Vang

With future professional goals that include teaching, traveling, community organizing, publishing their own books, and more, the power of writing and literature is alive and well in these 2020 graduates of the Fresno State English Department.

Young Writers’ Conference is a labor of love

April 10, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

Department of English lecturer Tanya Nichols, who has coordinated the Young Writers’ Conference since 2007, welcomes area high school students and teachers to campus in 2017. Photo by Jefferson Beavers.

March 25, 2020, was supposed to be a monumental day for Fresno State’s Department of English, as it was set to celebrate the 40th anniversary of its annual Young Writers’ Conference. But due to public health precautions for COVID-19, long-time conference coordinator Tanya Nichols had to do what so many artists have done during the pandemic — improvise.

Fresno Poets Archive Project brings literary history to life

August 16, 2017.Reading time 6 minutes.

Archive of recordings from past poetry readings

A new video archive project founded in the fall of 2016 provides a way for multiple generations of creative writers to connect with authors essential to the literary fabric of Fresno. The Fresno Poets Archive Project is a series of recorded poetry and prose readings, with dates ranging from the 1980s to the early 2000s.