Events

Prout Chapel Readings
Creative Writing Reading Series

Thank you for your interest in the Spring 2025 Reading Series sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, Creative Writing Program, and Mid-American Review. Unless otherwise noted, readings are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at Prout Chapel. All events are free and open to the public.

Spring 2025 Prout Chapel Reading Series

January 16

Sydney Koeplin (MFA – Fiction)
Nathan Fako (MFA – Poetry)

January 23

Carolyn Hogg (MFA – Fiction)
Jaden Gootjes (MFA – Poetry)

January 30

Tara Stringfellow (Distinguished Visiting Writer)

February 6

Serenity Dieufaite (MFA – Fiction)
Melayna Pongratz (MFA – Poetry)

February 13

Undergraduate Open Mic

February 20

Verena Mermer (Visiting Reader/Presenter)

February 27

Liz Barnett (MFA – Fiction)
Garret Miller (MFA – Poetry)

March 6

Spring Break - No Reading Tonight

March 13

Sandra Beasley (Visiting Reader/Presenter)

March 20

Hannah Goss (MFA – Fiction)
Anna Vaughn (MFA – Poetry)

March 27

No Reading Tonight (AWP Conference)

April 3

CRAFT TALK: Tara Stringfellow (Distinguished Visiting Writer)

April 10 BFA Readings

  • Jay Grummel (Poetry)
  • Gretchen Troxell (Fiction)
  • Katherine Fischer (Poetry)

April 17 BFA Readings

  • Elias Calloway (Fiction)
  • Michaela Finn (Poetry)

April 24 BFA Readings

  • Greta Mylin (Fiction)
  • Hunter Clevinger (Fiction)

May 1

Exam Week - No Reading Tonight

Winter Wheat
The Mid-American Review Festival of Writing

The 2024 Winter Wheat Festival, November 7-9, will be hybrid, with some online features and some in person.

Winter Wheat is a free writing festival celebrating the creation of new work across all genres.

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ENG 3120 Poetry Workshop Virtual Guest Lecture by poet Saida Agostini

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025
11:30AM-12:45 PM

This Virtual Guest Lecture will include a craft talk and Q&A session focused on Agostini's first full-length poetry collection titled let the dead in (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022), an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter- stories that reject such subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the legacy of colonization, and pleasure. These poems craft a creation story fat with love, queerness, mermaids, and blackness.

This event is open to any students currently enrolled in ENG courses.

For more information, details, or questions, please contact Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick (jzinz@bgsu.edu)

Updated: 04/18/2025 09:48AM