AUG Creative Writing

The Creative Writing Program at Augusta University. Tweets by @harrisannac.

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

“I wasn’t trying to write literature, I just put it down on paper to gain a foothold, to get a grip on my life.” ~ Herta Müller

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

“And it is so simple… You will instantly find how to live.”

On this day in 1877, Dostoyevsky discovered the meaning of life in a dream https://t.co/eKEj3ClPHL

[AUG Alumni @AUG_Alumni]

"Successful results aren't always immediate. Routine is key. Make it a routine to always work hard and push beyond your comfort zone. Others will notice and the results will come." #WednesdayWisdom
- Jonathon Cook (BA '05)

[Juli Berwald @juliberwald]

More @texasbookfest promo: my husband Keith Fern in his debut as sports moderator (better late than never) & sis @lynnebstein introducing a book about the Holocaust and the refugee crisis of the 30s and 40s. Sunday at 1 and 2 pm inside the Texas Capitol. @michaeldobbs @kdrobbins

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please ... tell us something that will save us from ourselves." ~ Alan Watts

[Kenyon Review @kenyonreview]

Have you read and/or written today? If not, what's stopping you?

[English and World Languages at Augusta University @AUG_EWL]

Hear authors Linda Hogan and Rick Van Noy, 10 am today in the JSAC Ballroom!

[Goodreads @goodreads]

It’s Friday! What are you planning on reading this weekend?

[National Book Foundation @nationalbook]

Head to the NBF website to learn about all ten of the remarkable titles on the #NBAwards Longlist for Nonfiction. https://t.co/4SHQSgtUZ0

[Angie Kim @AngieKimWriter]

There’s nothing quite like seeing hundreds of people holding up your book in one (beautiful ball)room. Seriously a #debutauthordream moment. 😭😭😭 Thank you @LibraryCCPL! #ilovelibraries!

https://t.co/b2qjJu31c4

[AUG Creative Writing @AUG_CW]

“Is it possible to love so desperately that life is unbearable? I don't mean unrequited, I mean being in the love. In the midst of it and desperate. Because knowing it will end, because everything does. End.” - Peter Heller “
#peterheller #augustauniversity #writerscommunity

[English and World Languages at Augusta University @AUG_EWL]

🍃 TOMORROW 🍃
Anna Harris-Parker, poet and AU faculty, will read from her new book of poetry. Join us! // Sept. 17 @ 3PM • UH 170

[AUG Creative Writing @AUG_CW]

Radioactive, a Marie Curie biopic, closes out the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival https://t.co/mLMwogyr4Z

[Goodreads @goodreads]

If you could transport yourself to the setting of the book you're currently reading, where would you be?

[Dinty W. Moore @brevitymag]

"The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway." ~ James Baldwin

[Farrar,Straus&Giroux @fsgbooks]

Congrats to #MiracleCreek author @AngieKimWriter, who is going to be honored at @Variety's 10 Storytellers to Watch event!
https://t.co/0kzanf2VZT

[Maria Popova @themarginalian]

"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains."

Whitman, post-stroke, on what makes life worth living: https://t.co/evPbb1UqKv

[Alfred A. Knopf @AAKnopf]

Looking for a dose of the great outdoors? In THE RIVER, Peter Heller's “nature-heavy hand keeps the reader with them in the woods, under the colors of the sky and the above the dipping paddles.” 🌌🛶
https://t.co/rLZyCuMITz

[AUG MPA @aug_mpa]

Congratulations to Jake Mace for his PhD Acceptance! We love seeing what our MPA students and alumni accomplish!

#transformingcareers #MPAwarrior #GoPublicService @aug_mpa @AUG_Pamplin @AUG_SocSci #StrongerTogether #MPANews @AUG_Alumni

[AUG Creative Writing @AUG_CW]

Happy spring break, Augusta University faculty and students! Enjoy your break from the (grade) books. 🌸