News from the School of IAS

Category: Creative Writing and Poetics

Ching-In Chen in @Salon: Queer Sound 2020 Showcase

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s ‘Household Mutations’ was selected for inclusion by curator Samuel Ace for the @Salon Pride: Queer Sound 2020 showcase. In the month of June, sound artists from the showcase will be featured in a Live Zoom series in conversation and performance on Tuesdays, 5p PDT. Ching-In Chen, Ian Hatcher and micha cárdenas will be ...

May 29, 2020

Writers of UW Bothell come together

Two graduate students and one alum from the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program have created a quarterly reading event that aims to connect current and past students. The Gamut Literary Series is led by alum Woogee Bae and current second-year students Ashley Noelle and Matt Porter. The event normally takes place at Open Books: A Poetry Emporium, which serves as a community bookstore and literary hub.

May 14, 2020

Essay Press/UW Bothell MFA Book Contest Announces Winners

Essay Press and the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Poetics are excited to announce the 2019 winners of their collaborative book contest: Poem That Never Ends by Silvina López Medin and Groundswell by Yanara Friedland!! Essay Press will publish both books in the coming year, and the authors will be invited to read for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics Convergence Zone reading series. IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen collaborated with Jill Magi in judging this contest. Learn more about the contest winners, their books and the finalists at the Essay Press website. ...

April 9, 2020

A search to find and map happy places

When you think about mapping, most people immediately think about geography. Layered onto that might be cultural sites, the current political landscape or, these days, census demographics. But for IAS faculty members Jin-Kyu Jung and Ted Hiebert, the most intriguing possibilities lie in concepts that resist visualization. ...

March 24, 2020

Amaranth Borsuk presents at the annual Modern Language Association Conference

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk participated in this year's MLA conference in Seattle in January, where she spoke on the panel "Weird Books" convened by Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania) and Élika Ortega (University of Colorado Boulder). The panel invited scholars and book artists to "think critically about the role of weirdness in studying the material text [and] excavate the history and materiality of a weird book." Borsuk's talk ...

January 30, 2020

Ching-In Chen selected for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has been selected to be one of twelve writers for the 2020 Jack Straw Writers Program by curator Anastacia-Renée. The program features voice and presentation training, in-studio interviews, public readings, a published anthology, and podcasts. ...

January 28, 2020

Natalie Singer reflects on 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

An essay by MFA alum Natalie Singer (’16) was published in Crosscut on the 75 anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In her article, “75 years after Auschwitz, a Seattle Jew wonders: Are we traveling backward?,” Singer reflects on the rise of anti-Semitism in America and her experiences as a Jewish woman in Canada and the U.S. Writes Singer ...

January 28, 2020

 Ching-In Chen: “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred”

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen’s “South in Hundreds: missing one hundred” was selected by guest curator Meg Day for the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day Series, which is sent out to 450,000 subscribers daily. The series initially began as one-hundred-word segments, which were braided to evoke the ghostly dislocations and detachments of relocating from Houston to Seattle. You can ...

January 6, 2020

Ching-In Chen publishes “15” in Lavender Review

IAS faculty member Ching-In Chen has published “15,” from the hybrid series, Houston in Compilation, in Lavender Review’s December issue. Lavender Review is a literary journal published by Headmistress Press dedicated to lesbian poetry and art.

December 23, 2019