LSU Creative Writing

LSU’s Creative Writing program was founded in 1968 by David Madden. Our fully-funded MFA is nearly 40 years old. Home to @deltajournal and @ndrmag.

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Many kudos to graduating MFA Bunny Morris! 🐇

Let's hear it for Bunny!

Thus concludes our grad spotlights... we'll see y'all Sunday for the graduating MFA reading!

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Tip your hats to Justin for getting his degree! 🧢 💯

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Let's give it up for the fiercely talented Brooke Stanish! 🌷

Many congratulations, Brooke! 🎈 ❤️

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We're sending off our graduating MFAs with an action-packed reading this Sunday!

Come thru to hear their outstanding work and celebrate their achievements. We'll also have food and refreshments available 🥂

See y'all there!

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Coming from one LA to another, Jalen Giovanni Jones is graduating! 🎥 💘

Enormous congrats, Jalen! 🌟

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Everyone's favorite Pittsburgher is graduating!! 🍔

Round of applause for Caldwell! 👏

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Friends, catch a few of our community members this weekend reading at The New Orleans Poetry Festival!

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Floridians, satirists, awake! We're shouting out Brett Hymel Jr. 🐊

Three (or four, or five) cheers for Brett! 🏆️

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To close out this week, we present to you the always-kind, ever-insightful, and part-time birder Sarah Brockhaus! 🪶 💌

Huzzah for Sarah! 🎉 💐

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Biggest congrats to another 2026 grad: the multi-hyphenate Xavier Hawkins! 🎺

Congrats, Xavier! 🐯

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We're comin in hot with another grad spotlight! Round of applause for our Pisces queen, Šari Dale!

Congrats, Šari! ♓️ ✨️

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This isn't an April Fools' joke!!! 🤡

Pop by LSU's HSSHC at noon this Wednesday to hear some thrilling words from English Instructor Henry Goldkamp and fellow Instructor and MFA alum Zach Shultz ('24). An artistic pairing this good hasn't come along since paper met pen (quill?)

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Commencement's nearly here... and over the next couple of weeks we'll be spotlighting/congratulating our graduating MFA students! On that note, hooray for Kyler Patrick Carter! 🥳 🐯

Many congrats, Kyler!

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We're buzzing this Monday morning about MFA alum Jake Zawlacki's ('23) translation of MOSQUITO by Akhmet Baitursynov 🦟

Congrats, Jake, on this brilliant achievement! You can purchase MOSQUITO now with Academic Studies Press 📖

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Today's your lucky day 🤞

☘️ TONIGHT ☘️ at Brickyard South is this semester's second installment of the Underpass Reading Series. MFA first-years Michael Romack, Jasper Graydon and Camille Hardee will read some magical original works. Come by before 7 to get a good spot!

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On April 18, show up and show out for three LSU Creative Writing faculty (Adam Clay, Jesse DeLong and Ariel Francisco), two current MFA students (Sarah Brockhaus and Brooke Stanish), and an MFA alumni (Nuha Fariha) for a 'Poets of LSU' reading at the New Orleans Poetry Festival!

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Endless congratulations to MFA alumna Kathleen Boland ('17) for the release of her debut novel, SCAVENGERS, with Viking!

We're rushing to the bookstore now to get a copy—and so should you! 🐯

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Three cheers for our three MFA third-year readers at Monday's Underpass: Sarah Brockhaus, Brooke Stanish, and Jalen Giovanni Jones! 💘

So thankful that we got to hear y'all's glorious words! And stay tuned for the next Underpass in March... be there or ELSE!

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Looking for love? 💘 Come out to the always stellar Brickyard South to hear words that'll make you swoon!

❤️‍🔥 Monday is our first Underpass of the semester, with readings from three of our MFA third-years: Sarah Brockhaus, Jalen Giovanni Jones and Brooke Stanish.

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Very happy #pubday to MFA Alumna Emily Nemens ('14) 🎊

Her new novel, CLUTCH, is out today! CLUTCH is a big, beautiful, and deeply absorbing novel that asks how much space and heart we can give to our friends and our families, and what space we can save for ourselves.