WKU News

Mar 11th, 2026

Professor Roy Burkhead is the 2025-2026 winner of the Part-Time Excellence in Teaching Faculty Award.

Mar 6th, 2026

The Goldenrod Poetry Festival is an annual Spring event held by the WKU English Department to highlight student work and connect with other writers. The festival will be held Monday, April 1st, and submissions are due Tuesday, March 10.

Mar 2nd, 2026

Feb 19th, 2026

Dec 4th, 2025

The Ted Hovet Conference reveals just how much brilliance is unfolding inside WKU’s English classrooms. The Ted Hovet Conference convenes each fall to showcase undergraduate essays in research, linguistics, literary analysis, and related fields.

Nov 17th, 2025

Oct 23rd, 2025

Dr. Sarah McFarland, an author, professor, and avid ecocritic, explores this question in her upcoming presentation at WKU, highlighting her book Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction.

Oct 16th, 2025

The Gender & Women’s Studies Program will host their annual Genderations Luncheon on Friday, October 24, in HCIC 1011.

Oct 10th, 2025

The WKU English Department will celebrate the 10 finalists of the 29th annual Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing on October 15 at 6:00 pm at the Western Kentucky University Alumni Center.

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.

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 (AWP).

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.

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.

Feb 21st, 2025

On March 6,  Dr. M. Shadee Malaklou, Associate Professor and Chair of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Berea College and inaugural Director of Berea College’s bell hooks center, will give a talk titled “Preserving the Legacy of bell hooks

Feb 4th, 2025

On February 6 at 7 p.m., the WKU English Department and Gender and Women’s Studies program will host poet, advocate, and educator Willie Carver Jr., who will read from his award-winning poetry collection Gay Poems for Red States.

Nov 11th, 2024

Western Kentucky University’s Professional Writing (PW) Club, sometimes affectionately referred to as the “p-dub” club, is a club “dedicated to providing [students with] opportunities to listen to and meet with individuals and businesses”

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 24th, 2024

The Naylor Workshop celebrated its tenth anniversary of welcoming undergraduate researchers and faculty mentors from across the country to the intensive weekend-long event.

Oct 21st, 2024

On Friday, November 1, Dr. Amy Brausch, Professor of Psychological Sciences, will present her research at the annual Genderations Luncheon.

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.