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Poets & Writers: The School of COmmunications Design offers an MFA in creative writing and publishing arts that encourages students to make their work public. In addition to writing workshops and classes, students can choose courses in book arts, typographic design, and small press publishing, all including instruction in the production of broadsides, chapbooks, and print and electronic journals. Students present their final writing projects in poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction as self-designed and self-produced print or electronic publications.
 
 

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MFA/CWPA Reading at Baltimore Book Festival
Sunday, Sept 28th, 12:30-1:30
School of Lit tent

    Join faculty and students from the Creative Writing & Publishing Arts program. Marion Winik is the host.


Bookbinding Workshop
August 9 & 16
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Room 208, Charles Royal Building, University of Baltimore (1319 N. Charles Street)
    Bookbinding isn't magic...it's just paper, glue, and a little elbow grease! Come to this two-day, hands-on workshop and we'll learn to make a hard-cover stab bind book, a hard-cover journal with signatures, and a variety of soft-cover book forms you can use throughout the MFA program. Workshop fee is $40 for MFA/CWPA students and alumns; $50 for anyone else. Please RSVP to jennyogrady@yahoo.com by July 25.

MFA/Integrated Design Thesis Exhibition
Spirits of the Abandoned, Maryland
Photography by Sue Tatterson
    UB Student Center Gallery
    June 26 - September 12, 2008

UB's Literary Magazine, Welter
welter.ubalt.edu
    Don't be the last to read this year's Welter! Call 410-837-6022 or email welter@ubalt.edu to order a copy. All proceeds go to supporting programs at the School of Communications Design.
    Read excerpts by Professor Steve Matanle and undergraduate creative writing major Ian Mason-Smolka as featured in the Baltimore Sun.

The Fall 2008 Reading Series
    Each semester, the M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts of the University of Baltimore's School of Communications Design presents readings by visiting and local writers. The series, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Yale Gordon College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council.
    This semester's events include an Editor's Panel, a publication party for Professor Marion Winik's newest book, a reading by MFA students, and an evening with Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort.
    See the schedule for the Fall 2008 Reading Series

MFA in Creative Writing named one of "Nine Distinctive Programs"
    In its November/December 2007 issue, Poets & Writers named UB's MFA program in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts as one nine "distinctive" MFA programs in the country. Poets & Writers is considered to be one of the premier magazines for professional writers. View article as a PDF.

CorpComm Participation Events
    Before you graduate as a Corporate Communication major, you must attend five approved events. (Note: This policy does not apply to students who began the major before Fall, 2000.) For more information on this policy, download this PDF and check the Participation Events Calendar.

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Learn about the Reading Series' Past Featured Writers

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