MFA News Room Hide details Book Launch Reading for MFA AlumnSound Like Trapped Thunder, the 2020 Deborah Tell Lyric Essay Book Prize by MFA alum Jessica Lind Peterson, will be celebrated with a virtual launch reading this Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm CT. Read More CWP Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe earns best of the 2000s distinctionCreative Writing Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe's debut essay collection Limber named one of the best nature books of the 2000s. Read More CWP Professor Sheila O'Connor Wins 2020 Minnesota Book AwardSheila O'Connor was named the recipient of 2020 Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category for her book Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. O'Connor also won the Minnesota Book Award in this category in 2004 for her novel Where No Gods Came. Read More CWP Wins Several MN State Arts Board GrantsThe Minnesota State Arts Board announced the winners of its 2020 Artist Initiative Grants and six of the grantees are part of the Hamline Creative Writing Programs. Read More CWP faculty Angela Pelster-Wiebe published in PloughsharesBFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe's essay “The Trial” has been published in the 2018/19 Winter Edition of Ploughshares. Read More CWP Faculty Pelster-Wiebe Published at Literary HubBFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe has published a new essay, "White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work," at Literary Hub. Read More MFA Alum's Newest ReleaseHooper, the latest novel from prolific CWP alum Geoff Herbach (MFA ‘06), is out now from HarperCollins. Don’t miss the launch event at the Red Balloon Bookshop on March 7th at 6 PM Read More Alums Named Minnesota Book Award FinalistsCongratulations to Sarah Ahiers (MFAC '16) and Caitlin Bailey (MFA '12), both named as finalists for the 30th annual, 2018 Minnesota Book Awards! Read More 2017 Hudson Prize WinnerThe Creative Writing Programs alum Beth Mayer (MFA '08) has won Black Lawrence Review's 2017 Hudson Prize! Her short story collection, We Will Tell You Otherwise, her debut book, will be published in the summer of 2019. Congratulations, Beth! Read More Caitlin Bailey, MFA '12, Wins Lindquist & Vennum PrizeSolve for Desire, a collection by MFA '12 graduate Caitlin Bailey, has won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. The award includes a publishing contract from Milkweed Editions. Read More Alumni Win MN Book AwardsWinners of the 2017 MN Book Award include two Creative Writing Programs alumni and a Hamline School of Law alumnus. JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) won in Children's Lit for Worm Loves Worm, Brian Farrey (MFA '09) won in Middle Grade Lit for The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse, and Allen Eskens (JD '91) won in the fiction category for The Heavens May Fall. Read More New Book from MFA student Kelsey SuttonGardenia- the newest book by Kelsey Sutton, current student in the MFA- is out now from Diversion Publishing. In this haunting young adult suspense, seventeen-year-old Ivy Erickson knows the exact moment when she will die. Read More Essay Published in Passages NorthAngela Pelster-Wiebe, CWP faculty, has a new hybrid essay, "Once, Then," published in the newest issue (#38) of Passages North. Read More MN Book Awards FinalistsSix CWP alums have been named as finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards! Congratulations to J.J. Austrian, Caren Stelson, Brian Farrey, Stephanie Wilbur Ash, and Gretchen Marquette. Read More CWP Alums on Kirkus Best of 2016Three CWP alums are on Kirkus' Best of 2016 list: Jane O'Reilly (MFAC '09) and Brian Farrey (MFA '12) are listed for Middle Grade, and JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) is listed for picture books. Read More Angela Pelster-Wiebe Nominated for a PushcartAngela Pelster-Wiebe's essay, Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour, which appears in River Teeth Issue 18.1, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read More MFA Alum Book Release: Gretchen MarquetteGretchen Marquette’s MFA ’12 debut poetry collection, May Day, is being released May 3 by Graywolf Press. Marquette is also an adjunct faculty member the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline. Read More MFA Alum Book Release EventApril Vinding (MFA '05), is celebrating the release of her new spiritual memoir, Triptych, published this month by Wipf and Stock. The release party is April 23 at 7 p.m. at Art House North. Read More Visiting Writer, Joni Tevis’ Public Reading and Author Interview Hamline welcomes visiting writer Joni Tevis March 8-10, 2016 for Public Reading and Author Interview. Read More MFA Alum Book ReleaseTremolo, a beautiful debut book of poetry from CWP alum Kelly Hansen Maher (MFA '14), is available now from Tinderbox Editions. Read More MFA Alum Book LaunchLucie Amundsen's (MFA '14) highly anticipated narrative non-fiction book, Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch will be in stores March 1. Read More MFAC Instructors Win Newbery and Printz AwardsMatt de la Peña has won the 2016 John Newbery Medal for his picture book Last Stop on Market Street and Laura Ruby has won the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award for her young adult novel Bone Gap. Read More Visiting Writer Kevin MoffettHamline hosts Pushcart Prize-winning author Kevin Moffett on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in Kay Fredericks Room, Klas Center. Free and open to the public. Read More Faculty New ReleasesCWP faculty members John Brandon (BFA/MFA) and e. lockhart, a.k.a., Emily Jenkins, (MFAC) are both celebrating new releases in fiction. Read More CWP Alum Addie Zierman (MFA '11) publishes memoir, receives starred reviewAddie's new book, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over (from her MFA capstone project), received a starred review in October from Publishers Weekly. Read More CWP Alumni Minnesota Book Award FinalistsTwo CWP alums are nominated for Minnesota Book Awards! Nothing Special, by Geoff Herbach (MFA '06), and Silhouette of a Sparrow. by Molly Beth Griffin (MFAC '09), are both finalists for best young people's literature. Read More New books by two MFA alums featured New books by Mindy Mejia (MFA '09) and Melanie Hoffert (MFA '08) featured in Sunday Review, Pioneer Press (January 6, 2013) Read More MFA students, faculty receive 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board GrantsMFA students Lynne Maker Kuechle and Susan Nettell, as well as MFA faculty Juliet Patterson, have been awarded Minnesota Arts Initiative grants (prose) from the MN Arts Board. Read More CWP faculty Sheila O'Connor's publication newsSheila O'Connor's newest, Keeping Safe the Stars, is available October 11 (Putnam Juvenile). Celebrate at two launch events: October 13 at Wild Rumpus and October 21 at Red Balloon. Read More CWP Faculty News: John Brandon NYT ReviewA Million Heavens was featured in the Sunday Book Review edition of The New York Times. [excerpt] 'More than once I handed “A Million Heavens” to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph...' Read More New CWP assistant professor John Brandon publishes third novelJohn Brandon's new novel, A Million Heavens, was published to rave reviews (McSweeney's 2012). The Daily Beast includes A Million Heavens in three "offbeat must-reads." Read More Katrina Vandenberg featured on MPR's The Writer's Almanac twice in JulyHear Garrison Keilor read Katrina's poems, 'Handwriting Analysis' and 'M', both from her new book of poetry, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World. Read More Faculty and Director of CWP Mary François Rockcastle profiledRead a lovely new article about Mary and an in-depth review of In Caddis Wood by Mary Stein of the Numéro Cinq web magazine. Read More MFA Alum Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry.MFA Alumna Kathy Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry, Unless You Count Birds. Friday, June 8 in GLC 100E. Read More Help us name our new blog site, win a Kindle Touch!The CWP is developing a new blog site and we're looking at you to help us name it. Submit through the end of June. The winner will receive a shiny new Kindle Touch! Read More The Great Twin Cities Poetry Read 2012See CWP faculty Deborah Keenan and Juliet Patterson read with many great local poets -- from the third annual Great Twin Cities Poetry Read on The CWP Youtube channel. Read More Mary François Rockcastle and Jim Moore nominatedCWP Directory and faculty Mary François Rockcastle is in good company, nominated for a 2012 Minnesota Book Award in Fiction & Short Story, along with CWP Faculty Jim Moore, nominated for Poetry. Congratulations Mary and Jim! Read More Sheila O'Connor receives a best book of 2011 award MFA faculty Sheila O'Connor was honored by the Voice of Youth Advocates for her book Sparrow Road. Read More YALSA 2012 Fiction Nominations include MFA and MFAC faculty and alumniThe Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) nominates MFAC faculty Ron Koertge and Gary Schmidt, MFA alum Geoff Herbach for best fiction. Read More Loft, McKnight Selections include many Hamline connectionsCongratulations to the MFA and MALS students and alumni chosen as Loft Mentor Series, McKnight Artists Fellowships selections Read More Teachers Say Hamline’s Summer Literacy Institute Leaves Them Informed, Inspired & Empowered For more than two decades, K-6 teachers and administrators have come to Hamline’s Saint Paul campus for one week in the summer to discover the most effective and innovative practices in literacy education. Read More Sheila O'Connor continues to make news and gather praise for her new novel, Sparrow Road.Sheila O'Connor continues to make news for her new novel, Sparrow Road. Read More MFA Students Start Nonfiction blog – Join the Discussion!MFA students start nonfiction blog – Join the discussion! Read More Page
Book Launch Reading for MFA AlumnSound Like Trapped Thunder, the 2020 Deborah Tell Lyric Essay Book Prize by MFA alum Jessica Lind Peterson, will be celebrated with a virtual launch reading this Thursday, March 18 at 7 pm CT. Read More
CWP Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe earns best of the 2000s distinctionCreative Writing Professor Angela Pelster-Wiebe's debut essay collection Limber named one of the best nature books of the 2000s. Read More
CWP Professor Sheila O'Connor Wins 2020 Minnesota Book AwardSheila O'Connor was named the recipient of 2020 Minnesota Book Award in the Novel & Short Story category for her book Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions. O'Connor also won the Minnesota Book Award in this category in 2004 for her novel Where No Gods Came. Read More
CWP Wins Several MN State Arts Board GrantsThe Minnesota State Arts Board announced the winners of its 2020 Artist Initiative Grants and six of the grantees are part of the Hamline Creative Writing Programs. Read More
CWP faculty Angela Pelster-Wiebe published in PloughsharesBFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe's essay “The Trial” has been published in the 2018/19 Winter Edition of Ploughshares. Read More
CWP Faculty Pelster-Wiebe Published at Literary HubBFA/MFA faculty member Angela Pelster-Wiebe has published a new essay, "White Artists Need to Start Addressing White Supremacy in Their Work," at Literary Hub. Read More
MFA Alum's Newest ReleaseHooper, the latest novel from prolific CWP alum Geoff Herbach (MFA ‘06), is out now from HarperCollins. Don’t miss the launch event at the Red Balloon Bookshop on March 7th at 6 PM Read More
Alums Named Minnesota Book Award FinalistsCongratulations to Sarah Ahiers (MFAC '16) and Caitlin Bailey (MFA '12), both named as finalists for the 30th annual, 2018 Minnesota Book Awards! Read More
2017 Hudson Prize WinnerThe Creative Writing Programs alum Beth Mayer (MFA '08) has won Black Lawrence Review's 2017 Hudson Prize! Her short story collection, We Will Tell You Otherwise, her debut book, will be published in the summer of 2019. Congratulations, Beth! Read More
Caitlin Bailey, MFA '12, Wins Lindquist & Vennum PrizeSolve for Desire, a collection by MFA '12 graduate Caitlin Bailey, has won the Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry. The award includes a publishing contract from Milkweed Editions. Read More
Alumni Win MN Book AwardsWinners of the 2017 MN Book Award include two Creative Writing Programs alumni and a Hamline School of Law alumnus. JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) won in Children's Lit for Worm Loves Worm, Brian Farrey (MFA '09) won in Middle Grade Lit for The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse, and Allen Eskens (JD '91) won in the fiction category for The Heavens May Fall. Read More
New Book from MFA student Kelsey SuttonGardenia- the newest book by Kelsey Sutton, current student in the MFA- is out now from Diversion Publishing. In this haunting young adult suspense, seventeen-year-old Ivy Erickson knows the exact moment when she will die. Read More
Essay Published in Passages NorthAngela Pelster-Wiebe, CWP faculty, has a new hybrid essay, "Once, Then," published in the newest issue (#38) of Passages North. Read More
MN Book Awards FinalistsSix CWP alums have been named as finalists for the Minnesota Book Awards! Congratulations to J.J. Austrian, Caren Stelson, Brian Farrey, Stephanie Wilbur Ash, and Gretchen Marquette. Read More
CWP Alums on Kirkus Best of 2016Three CWP alums are on Kirkus' Best of 2016 list: Jane O'Reilly (MFAC '09) and Brian Farrey (MFA '12) are listed for Middle Grade, and JJ Austrian (MFAC '12) is listed for picture books. Read More
Angela Pelster-Wiebe Nominated for a PushcartAngela Pelster-Wiebe's essay, Eating the Dead: A Guided Tour, which appears in River Teeth Issue 18.1, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Read More
MFA Alum Book Release: Gretchen MarquetteGretchen Marquette’s MFA ’12 debut poetry collection, May Day, is being released May 3 by Graywolf Press. Marquette is also an adjunct faculty member the Creative Writing Programs at Hamline. Read More
MFA Alum Book Release EventApril Vinding (MFA '05), is celebrating the release of her new spiritual memoir, Triptych, published this month by Wipf and Stock. The release party is April 23 at 7 p.m. at Art House North. Read More
Visiting Writer, Joni Tevis’ Public Reading and Author Interview Hamline welcomes visiting writer Joni Tevis March 8-10, 2016 for Public Reading and Author Interview. Read More
MFA Alum Book ReleaseTremolo, a beautiful debut book of poetry from CWP alum Kelly Hansen Maher (MFA '14), is available now from Tinderbox Editions. Read More
MFA Alum Book LaunchLucie Amundsen's (MFA '14) highly anticipated narrative non-fiction book, Locally Laid: How We Built a Plucky, Industry-changing Egg Farm - from Scratch will be in stores March 1. Read More
MFAC Instructors Win Newbery and Printz AwardsMatt de la Peña has won the 2016 John Newbery Medal for his picture book Last Stop on Market Street and Laura Ruby has won the 2016 Michael L. Printz Award for her young adult novel Bone Gap. Read More
Visiting Writer Kevin MoffettHamline hosts Pushcart Prize-winning author Kevin Moffett on Tuesday, April 14 at 7 p.m. in Kay Fredericks Room, Klas Center. Free and open to the public. Read More
Faculty New ReleasesCWP faculty members John Brandon (BFA/MFA) and e. lockhart, a.k.a., Emily Jenkins, (MFAC) are both celebrating new releases in fiction. Read More
CWP Alum Addie Zierman (MFA '11) publishes memoir, receives starred reviewAddie's new book, When We Were on Fire: A Memoir of Consuming Faith, Tangled Love, and Starting Over (from her MFA capstone project), received a starred review in October from Publishers Weekly. Read More
CWP Alumni Minnesota Book Award FinalistsTwo CWP alums are nominated for Minnesota Book Awards! Nothing Special, by Geoff Herbach (MFA '06), and Silhouette of a Sparrow. by Molly Beth Griffin (MFAC '09), are both finalists for best young people's literature. Read More
New books by two MFA alums featured New books by Mindy Mejia (MFA '09) and Melanie Hoffert (MFA '08) featured in Sunday Review, Pioneer Press (January 6, 2013) Read More
MFA students, faculty receive 2013 Minnesota State Arts Board GrantsMFA students Lynne Maker Kuechle and Susan Nettell, as well as MFA faculty Juliet Patterson, have been awarded Minnesota Arts Initiative grants (prose) from the MN Arts Board. Read More
CWP faculty Sheila O'Connor's publication newsSheila O'Connor's newest, Keeping Safe the Stars, is available October 11 (Putnam Juvenile). Celebrate at two launch events: October 13 at Wild Rumpus and October 21 at Red Balloon. Read More
CWP Faculty News: John Brandon NYT ReviewA Million Heavens was featured in the Sunday Book Review edition of The New York Times. [excerpt] 'More than once I handed “A Million Heavens” to a friend and watched the rhythms compel him or her into the thickness of a paragraph...' Read More
New CWP assistant professor John Brandon publishes third novelJohn Brandon's new novel, A Million Heavens, was published to rave reviews (McSweeney's 2012). The Daily Beast includes A Million Heavens in three "offbeat must-reads." Read More
Katrina Vandenberg featured on MPR's The Writer's Almanac twice in JulyHear Garrison Keilor read Katrina's poems, 'Handwriting Analysis' and 'M', both from her new book of poetry, The Alphabet Not Unlike the World. Read More
Faculty and Director of CWP Mary François Rockcastle profiledRead a lovely new article about Mary and an in-depth review of In Caddis Wood by Mary Stein of the Numéro Cinq web magazine. Read More
MFA Alum Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry.MFA Alumna Kathy Weihe Reads from her new book of poetry, Unless You Count Birds. Friday, June 8 in GLC 100E. Read More
Help us name our new blog site, win a Kindle Touch!The CWP is developing a new blog site and we're looking at you to help us name it. Submit through the end of June. The winner will receive a shiny new Kindle Touch! Read More
The Great Twin Cities Poetry Read 2012See CWP faculty Deborah Keenan and Juliet Patterson read with many great local poets -- from the third annual Great Twin Cities Poetry Read on The CWP Youtube channel. Read More
Mary François Rockcastle and Jim Moore nominatedCWP Directory and faculty Mary François Rockcastle is in good company, nominated for a 2012 Minnesota Book Award in Fiction & Short Story, along with CWP Faculty Jim Moore, nominated for Poetry. Congratulations Mary and Jim! Read More
Sheila O'Connor receives a best book of 2011 award MFA faculty Sheila O'Connor was honored by the Voice of Youth Advocates for her book Sparrow Road. Read More
YALSA 2012 Fiction Nominations include MFA and MFAC faculty and alumniThe Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) nominates MFAC faculty Ron Koertge and Gary Schmidt, MFA alum Geoff Herbach for best fiction. Read More
Loft, McKnight Selections include many Hamline connectionsCongratulations to the MFA and MALS students and alumni chosen as Loft Mentor Series, McKnight Artists Fellowships selections Read More
Teachers Say Hamline’s Summer Literacy Institute Leaves Them Informed, Inspired & Empowered For more than two decades, K-6 teachers and administrators have come to Hamline’s Saint Paul campus for one week in the summer to discover the most effective and innovative practices in literacy education. Read More
Sheila O'Connor continues to make news and gather praise for her new novel, Sparrow Road.Sheila O'Connor continues to make news for her new novel, Sparrow Road. Read More
MFA Students Start Nonfiction blog – Join the Discussion!MFA students start nonfiction blog – Join the discussion! Read More