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 highly-competitive Intro Journal Award.

Mar 24th, 2025

Nicholas Jenkins is the 2024 recipient of the Warren-Brooks Award for his book The Island: War and Belonging in Auden’s England, published by Harvard University Press.

Oct 25th, 2024

Third-year Creative Writing MFA Sydney Thier's short film, True Love Stays, won the Best Narrative Short Film award at the 3rd annual Sky Arts Film Festival last weekend.

Oct 16th, 2024

The WKU English Department hopes you will join us for the 28th annual Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing on Sunday, October 27, in Cherry Hall 125 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., followed by a reception in Cherry Hall 101.

Mar 4th, 2024

Dr. Gary Saul Morson, Lawrence B. Dumas Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University, is the winner of the 2023 Warren-Brooks Award, presented each year by the Robert Penn Warren Center at Western Kentucky University.

Sep 11th, 2023

Dr. Tobias Menely, professor of English at UC Davis, will deliver the Warren-Brooks Lecture at 3:30 p.m. Friday (September 15) at Cherry Hall 125.

Apr 11th, 2023

The WKU English Club held the 2023 Goldenrod Poetry Festival on Monday, April 3. The poet Dr. Emily Schulten served as the guest judge and workshop leader for the poetry contest and shared her own work at the festival.

Feb 13th, 2023

"Climate and the Making of Worlds: Toward a Geohistorical Poetics," written by Tobias Menel and published by the University of Chicago Press, has been selected as the 2022 winner of the Robert Penn Warren-Cleanth Brooks Award.

Dec 8th, 2022

Congratulations to the English Department’s very own, Dr. David Bell, whose novel She’s Gone has been listed as a New York Times Bestseller!

Nov 17th, 2022

Kaylee ben Yosef, a senior of the WKU English Department, obtained a paid internship position at Franklin Precision Industry (FPI) as a translator for Japanese employees.