reading | friday, APRIL 18 | 7–9 PM | free
UNM Creative Writing Program: Lena Todd Awards Annual Reading
The UNM Creative Writing Program: Lena Todd Awards Annual Reading is being held at FUSION! Join us at FUSION | The Cell on Friday, April 18 at 7 PM!
Every fall term, instructors of UNM’s undergraduate creative writing workshops nominate stories, poems, and creative nonfiction essays written by their students for the Lena Todd Awards. Winners represent the best work in creative writing in the undergrad English Department. At the Lena Todd Awards Annual Reading, winners will read from their winning pieces.
This FREE event is open to the public. We hope you join us!
LENA TODD AWARD WINNERS
Fiction
First Place: Matthew Lineberry
Second Place: Alex Wells
Nonfiction
First Place: Cara Dwyer
Second Place: Renata Gonzales
Poetry
First Place: Alyssa Ramos
Second Place: Isabella Clarke
ABOUT UNM CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM
UNM’s English Department offers a full array of creative writing workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction on the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Undergraduate students may register for introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops in all three genres. Additionally, they are invited to attend readings sponsored by UNM’s Masters of Fine Arts Program and participate as readers on Blue Mesa Review. Qualifying undergraduates interested in pursuing creative writing on the graduate level are encouraged to work with a faculty mentor on a creative writing Honors Thesis. And every fall undergraduate creative writers compete for the prestigious Lena Todd Awards, a small cash stipend and the opportunity to share their work at the Works-in-Process Reading Series.
UNM’s MFA Program in Creative Writing is designed for graduate students committed to pursuing the writing life. This three-year degree combines studio-based workshops in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction with craft seminars and coursework in literature, teaching pedagogy, and professional writing.
Quality bar service provided by Safe House Distilling Co. and Teller Genuine Vodka.
