Creative Writing at NEIU

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Home of Northeastern Illinois University’s Creative Writing Minor, The 82 Reading Series, and more! https://www.neiu.edu/academics/colleges-departments/arts-and-sciences/departments/english/student-groups-and-honor-society/82-writers-reading

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Those Bodies We Borrowed Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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Lesser-Known Facts About Birthdays - The Offing Wit Tea - The Offing Magazine

‘For some reason, it’s cute to say you’re “six-and-a-half,” but not “thirty-two and five-twelfths.”’

From “Lesser-Known Facts About Birthdays,” a Wit Tea humor piece by Sarah Garfinkel.

theoffingmag.com/wit-tea/less...

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Our next WIHM interview is with author Kimberly Pinzon. See what she has to say about the movie Alien, her thoughts on Ouija boards, and what pulled her into the genre.

www.timberghostpress.com/blog/wihm-20...

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AKaiser on translating Anna Gual Poets and translators on their work.

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Day Care ‘Day care meant sick baby. And sick baby meant she had to skip work to care for sick baby, and entertain sick baby with bad mom art.’ A short story by Nora Lange.

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Whatever Creek Meadows ‘I had slept with her back in college and several times afterward, as presumptive grown-ups, only out of some masculine obligingness which I’ve never seen described in fiction’

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Mozart Balls ‘We were making progress but I didn’t want our sessions to end too quickly, I needed the money; Chow Chow II needed a tooth removed and vets were extortionate.’

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‘Essential for My Career’: Six Authors Explain Why They Need Their Books on Library Shelves Librarians can ensure that books actually reach the children who want and need them by providing personalized recommendations.

As part of its work challenging book bans, PEN America asked authors how much hinges on whether public libraries carry their books. The short answer? Everything. “If my books aren’t in public libraries, they may as well not be published at all,” said @kylelukoff.bsky.social. pen.org/why-libraries/

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Kay Gabriel on Omnivorous Attention: An Interview Kay Gabriel speaks with Poets House about conversation as a form of attention, writing through the people she loves, and Bernadette Mayer.

12.03.2026 15:52 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Convention Program Forms Sessions at the MLA convention are organized by individual MLA members as well as by MLA forums, allied organizations, and MLA committees. Refer to Planning a Convention Session and Proposing a Specia...

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Former Amazon Executive Greg Greeley Named CEO of Simon & Schuster - Publishers Lunch After a longer than expected search, Simon & Schuster has hired Greg Greeley, 62, as their new ceo, effective immediately. Jonathan Karp remains with the company as publisher of the new Simon Six impr...

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Worried about the demise of reading? Come to France, where we’re up to our eyes in print | Alexander Hurst From hefty literary magazines to thriving book sales, the French publishing industry refuses to let printed matter die, says Paris-based writer Alexander Hurst

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Lawsuit Accuses Writer of Using Classmate’s Story in Best-Selling Memoir

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Thousands of authors publish ‘empty’ book in protest over AI using their work About 10,000 writers including Kazuo Ishiguro, Philippa Gregory and Richard Osman join copyright campaign

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State Department Orders Non-Profit Libraries to Halt Passport Services In rural areas, these libraries may have acted as the primary passport agency for many people who would have otherwise not had easy access.

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London Book Fair 2026: Program Highlights - Publishing Perspectives This year’s professional program once again features hundreds of industry leaders, experts, authors, and technologists who will explore a wide array of topics facing the global book business.

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LBF 2026: Pan Macmillan CEO Says Books Need to Be ‘as Urgent as Notifications’ In her Wednesday keynote address at the London Book Fair, Joanna Prior tackled the growing literacy crisis, arguing that “the decline of reading is a greater challenge to our industry than AI could ev...

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How Penguin Random House set its penguin logo free The company just introduced a series of playful, hand-drawn illustrations that bring its iconic penguin to life.

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Literary Prize - Aspen Words

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Ten Questions for Tom Junod “When I work in coffee shops, people actually remark on the chaos of my desktop, wondering how I can get any work done.” —Tom Junod, author of In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a ...

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An article on poetry books? Contributor @arahko.bsky.social's article for @electricliterature.com featured work from contributor @theoceanisgay.bsky.social, contributor @asaldrake.bsky.social, & former poetry editor @mariannelchan.bsky.social! 🤩
We're amazed by all the good writing! buff.ly/yuZbrUt

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