English and Creative Writing Department

On Wednesday, April 30, SUNY Oswego students Marie Sova and Lily Tringali will cohost the 2025 Subnivean Awards event honoring six international literary competition finalists and naming winners in poetry and fiction. This virtual event, featuring readings by the finalist authors, will be free and open to the general public.

English and creative writing faculty member Erik Wade is an advisory board member and initial contributor to Public Humanities, a major new international journal recently launched from Cambridge University Press.

Meenal Shojaian, a junior majoring in English and adolescence education with a minor in psychology, talks about her dedication to social justice, campus involvement, the mentors who have shaped her journey at Oswego and why Black History Month is important to her.

Subnivean, SUNY Oswego’s student-staffed digital publication, is celebrating the fifth anniversary of its international literary competition, the Subnivean Awards.

According to Lemony Snicket, the pseudonym for author Daniel Handler, who will appear on campus on Monday, Dec. 2: “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”  Attendees to this talk, which will include a booksigning, might want to follow this advice and bring a book, organizers said.

Oswego faculty members Amy Shore and Roberta (Rosie) Hurtado are editors of a new online feminist journal including scholars from around Upstate New York and beyond.

Isaac Fitzgerald has been an altar boy, a barback, a smuggler and a celebrated memoirist who made it onto both The New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists -- and will appear on campus at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 6, in the Marano Campus Center auditorium (room 132).

Sari Fordham, whose fascinating girlhood is captured in her extraordinary memoir about a naïve yet brave missionary family navigating tumultuous 1970s Uganda, is the next speaker on SUNY Oswego's Living Writers Series, at 3 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 28.

Vote Oswego, a university-coordinated student-run project that helps members of the community make their impact in elections, is hosting a film festival and other awareness events to get students prepared for the 2024 elections.

Emma Deloff trembled as she marched into the cavernous arena near the front of the procession and glimpsed countless sets of eyes, all of which seemed to be trained on her.