Sofia James and Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras named 2024 Dean’s Medalists
The 2024 College of Arts and Humanities Dean’s Medalists were named at the Arts in Motion event on Friday, April 19, at the Fresno State Concert Hall.
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Dean’s Medalist: Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras – Department of English
Hermelinda Hernandez Monjaras is a graduate student receiving her MFA in creative writing, poetry. She is a graduate Dean’s Medal nominee from the Department of English.
Read MoreSandra Cisneros headlines English Department spring literary lineup
Fresno State’s Department of English welcomes seven accomplished authors and scholars this spring for campus visits, including the pathbreaking artist Sandra Cisneros, winner of the Poetry Foundation’s 2022 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Read MoreLevine Prize for Poetry announces new partnership, names 2023 winner
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
Read More‘Lit Night’ event brings collaboration and original works to University Theatre stage
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.”
Read MoreNew scholarship benefits English Department students
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.
Read MoreMFA students perform at 2023 LitHop festival
More than 100 writers will gather in Fresno’s Tower District on Saturday, Oct. 14 for LitHop 2023, the city’s free literary festival.
Read MoreCreative Writing Program hosts trio of October author readings
Fresno State’s Master of Fine Arts program in creative writing will host three author readings in the month of October — one featuring the program’s faculty authors, one a celebration of contemporary queer literature, and one welcoming back to campus an alumni author with three new poetry collections being published this fall.
Read MoreKudos to Fresno Writers – Summer 2023
Celebrating the professional accomplishments of students, alumni, and faculty in Fresno State’s Department of English and Creative Writing Program.
Read MoreKudos to Fresno Writers — Spring 2023
This compilation includes news between January and May 2023
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