Fresh Caught Fiction

We may not have lobsters fresh from the tank, but we promise a wicked good time when Stuart Nadler & Amanda Rea read next Thursday, March 5 as part of our ongoing Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Reading Series.

Stuart Nadler is the Carol Houck Smith Fiction Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing and holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Amanda Rea received her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. Her fiction has appeared in Glimmer Train, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review and the Indiana Review. She is the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellowship at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing.

Reading from First Books

The Glass Bookcase Reading Series is proud to present an evening of poetry with Kevin A. González and Sean Hill this Thursday, February 26 at 7pm in 6191 Helen C. White Hall.


Kevin A. González was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He holds degrees from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where was also the Carol Houck Smith Fellow in Fiction in 2007-08. He is the author of the chapbook, The Night Tito Trinidad KO’ed Ricardo Mayorga (Mombotombo Press, 2007). His poems have appeared in Poetry, Callaloo, Poetry Northwest, and The Progressive; and his stories have appeared in Playboy, Virginia Quarterly Review, Best American Nonrequired Reading 2007, and Best New American Voices 2007 and 2009. Cultural Studies is his first book of poems.



A native of Milledgeville, Georgia, Sean Hill has an M.F.A. from the University of Houston, where he was awarded the 2003 Michener Fellowship for poetry. He has also received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bush Foundation, The MacDowell Colony, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he was a Halls Poetry Fellow in 2006-07. His poems have appeared in Callaloo, Indiana Review, lyric poetry review, Crab Orchard Review, DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Gulf Coast, and other literary journals, and in the anthologies Blues Poems, Gathering Ground, and The Ringing Ear . He is currently a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Soul Mountain Retreat Residency Awarded

Congratulations to MFA candidate Kristen Muir (poetry), who has been awarded a residency at Marilyn Nelson's Soul Mountain Retreat in East Haddam, CT. She'll spend spring break as one of one of four writers in residence. To learn more about Soul Mountain, visit their website.

Andrew & Jill read Thursday!

Please join us!

The University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing presents a reading by

Andrew Milward (the James C. McCreight Fiction Fellow)
&
Jill Osier (the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow)

Thursday, February 19 at 7:00pm in 6191 Helen C. White.

We love Andrew & Jill.
You will too.


Andrew Milward is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His stories have been a finalist for the National Magazine Award and appeared in magazines such as Zoetrope, The Southern Review, Columbia, and Crazyhorse, and will be included in Best New American Voices 2010.

Jill Osier is from northeast Iowa, lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and is currently the Diane Middlebrook Poetry Fellow at UW-Madison. Her poems appear widely.