Creative Writing | Marginalia

Oh my goodness, this is my last blog post as the Fiction Writing Grad Ambassador! I’ve been working open houses for the Grad Admission..

This weekend I spent three days at Union Park for the Pitchfork Music Festival 2012 (as my good friend Colleen O’Connor refers to it)…

As I write these words, I’m actually in New York, not Chicago. I’m out visiting some friends from my undergraduate university (Michiga..

Holy heat wave! This past week, Chicago had temperatures in the 100s for what seemed like forever. Just getting to work in the morning..

What is the one piece of advice you would give to a young person entering college? For me, the answer comes quickly: the most emotiona..

I’ve been writing a lot this week, and I’m pretty sure it began with organizing the “My Documents” section on my computer. After the p..

Kurt Kennedy started the Fiction Writing program with an idea in progress: a historical fiction novel about the embalmer on Abraham Li..

What’s summer without a little poetry and nonfiction? I’ve missed going to readings since school let out, and in the past week or so, ..

You’ll notice that none of the reading material I have included above is poetry. Borges, I suppose, is closest; his short stories are ..