English and Creative Writing Department

On Oct. 27, four professionals in the publishing industry will provide their unique insights to students at the second Publishing Festival, hosted by SUNY Oswego’s creative writing department.

Kimberly Clark, one of six comedians hand-picked by Tiffany Haddish to appear in the Netflix series "Tiffany Haddish Presents," is the next virtual presenter in the university's Living Writers Series at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 18.

“A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates,” featuring the award-winning author and journalist, will take place at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 3, in SUNY Oswego’s Waterman Theatre.

Juliet Giglio of the English and creative writing faculty and her husband Keith recently released their second novel, titled “The Trouble with Tinsel,” and will have a talk and book-signing at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 10, at the River’s End Bookstore.

The Living Writers Series at SUNY Oswego has announced its heavyweight lineup for a fall semester author series titled “Waves.”

A SUNY Oswego student-faculty collaboration is producing a documentary demonstrating the biodiversity and community history of the Sterling Nature Center (SNC), a preserve 10 miles west of the lakeside campus, thanks to support of the Shineman Endowed Fund.

Through thank-you emails to her students’ favorite English teachers, Distinguished Service Professor Leigh Wilson turned a kind gesture into a yearly writing contest intertwining the stories of high school and SUNY Oswego students, leaving a lasting mark on those involved.

Brooklyn Saternow, a student at Oswego High School, was selected as winner of the 2022 Subnivean New Writers Awards competition offered by SUNY Oswego’s internationally-known literary magazine.

SUNY Oswego faculty member Roberta Hurtado is among nine emerging Hispanic/Latinx leaders have been selected for the State University of New York's 2023 Hispanic Leadership Institute (HLI) class.

Cris Eli Blak — recently announced as SUNY Oswego’s spring 2023 Artist in Residence to teach in the Theatre Department as well as the English and Creative Writing Department — will bring students’ voices to the stage with a contemporary, collaborative production that he calls “half straight-play and half docu-drama.”