Department News

There are approximately 700 regularly publishing literary journals in America—and each year a writer and blogger named Clifford Garstang ranks them based on how often work from their pages is reprinted in the prestigious annual Pushcart Prize Anthology. As of 2023, Copper Nickel is now ranked number 10 for poetry,...

Our students in Senior Fiction, Senior Poetry, and Creative Nonfiction invite you to join us at our spring reading at the Lighthouse Writers Workshop on the evening of Wednesday, April 30th, at 6:00-8:00pm. It's free to attend, food and drinks will be provided, and all are welcome. Please help us...

Our next installment of the Jake Adam York Reading Series is coming up in two weeks! Poet Blas Falconer will be reading on Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 PM in Tivoli 640 (Zenith Room). We hope to see you there and hope that you will encourage your students to attend...

Please join us for the Community Forum on Thursday, February 13th from 4:30-6:00 pm in the Student Commons 1600. It will be informal -- an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to come together in an open discussion of recent political developments, and how we all might reaffirm our commitment...

Please join us as we navigate the realities of teaching in this 3-part webinar series. Register at TIPS Https://www.ucdenver.edu/tlps/workshops-events Participation in all three qualifies for an Al Pedagogy Workshops recognition badge Guest Speakers will be: Bryan Alexander, Friday, February 7th AI, Higher Ed, Equity & Climate Futures Tazin Daniels, Monday,...

Our Fall 2024 Visiting Writers Series continues with fiction writers Kate McIntyre and Joe Aguilar. Please join us Wednesday, November 13th at 6:30 pm in the Zenith Room at Tivoli for a reading, Q&A, and book signing. Kate McIntyre is an assistant professor of creative writing at Worcester Polytechnic Institute...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is upending how we write and communicate–in our workplaces, at school, creatively, and interpersonally. Writing professionals across many fields are increasingly expected to know how to use AI in a rapidly changing environment. In completing this certificate, students will question what this influx of AI writing tools...

On Thursday, October 17 , poets HADARA BAR-NADAV & RAJIV MOHABIR will read for us in the Tivoli Building 's Zenith Room (room 640) at 6:30pm . HADARA BAR-NADAV is the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Animal Is Chemical (Four Way Books, 2024), chosen for the Levis...