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WKU Creative Writing MFA Candidate Wins Prestigious National Award

Apr 23rd, 2025

Poet Heather Neidlinger, a teaching graduate assistant and second-year student in WKU’s three year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program, has won the...

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Second Year MFA Students Travel to Los Angeles for AWP

Apr 15th, 2025

Students from WKU’s Creative Writing Graduate program traveled to Los Angeles, California on March 26th to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference...

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First Things First: Your Story, Your Words to showcase creative writing for Sex...

Apr 3rd, 2025

On Wednesday, April 9 at 5 p.m. in Cherry Hall 125, the Gender & Women’s Studies Program and Hope Harbor will present First Things First: Your Story, Your Words....

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