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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Kresge Students: Writers House

Kresge students who will be living on campus this fall have the option of applying for "Writers House," for students interested in journalism and Creative Writing regardless of their major.

For more information contact the Kresge Housing Office via email at jmsimas@ucsc.edu


UCSC Creative Writing Alum in the News

UCSC creative writing alum Michael Scherer covers the White House for Time magazine. Read the main article here:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/text.asp?pid=2757

 



THE LIVING WRITERS READING SERIES

Fall 2009 Living Writers Series

Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206

To be announced...

 



AWARDS AND HONORS

Student Awards and Honors

2008-09 Deans' Undergraduate Award

2008-09 Humanities Undergraduate Research Award

2008-09 Ina Coolbrith Memorial Poetry Prize

Faculty Awards and Honors

Lecturer Dion Farquhar

Dion Farquhar's manuscript Feet First was one of two finalists for the Sinclair Prize at Evening Street Press and will be published in early 2010


Professor Nathaniel Mackey

2008 Stephen Henderson Award, African American Literature and Culture Society of the American Literature Association

2007 Roy Harvey Pearce/Archive for New Poetry Prize, Archive for New Poetry at UCSD

2007 Northern California Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem

2007 Individual Artist's Grant in Poetry, Foundation for Contemporary Arts

2006 National Book Award in Poetry for Splay Anthem


Associate Professor Micah Perks

2008 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship
The Captivity And Restoration Of Mary Rowlandson, My Mother And Me


Lecturer Gary Young

2009 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America