WRITERS WANTED!

Come share your own written work or someone else's (with credit!)

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Friday Nov 22
5:00-6:30
Location: MLK Center, Gatton Student Center

Enjoy an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from UK writers. 

Featured readers:
TBD

Open mic for undergraduate students beforehand. Come early to sign up! One poem or piece AND 3 min limit per open mic reader.

October Incubator MFA Reading Series: 

Friday Oct. 25, 
5:00-6:30
Location: MLK Center, Gatton Student Center 

Enjoy an evening of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from UK writers. 
 

Featured readers:
Peter Birsen
Samantha Ratcliffe
Robertha White Morgan
Julia Johnson, Guest Faculty Reader

Open mic for undergraduate students beforehand. Come early to sign up! One poem or piece AND 3 min limit per open mic reader. 

SPOOKY POEMS/STORIES AND HALLOWEEN COSTUMES INCOURAGED!

Please join us for a Pre-Spring Registration Open House! Course descriptions for the Spring will be displayed and professors will be available to chat and answer questions.  Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there! Please RSVP below.

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An aging silent film queen (Gloria Swanson) refuses to accept that her stardom has ended. She hires a young hack screenwriter (William Holden) to help set up her movie comeback. The screenwriter believes he can manipulate her, but he soon finds out he is wrong. The screenwriters ambivalence about their relationship and her unwillingness to let go leads to a situation of violence, madness, and death. Get tickets HERE.

After witnessing a Mafia murder, slick saxophone player Joe (Tony Curtis) and his long-suffering buddy, Jerry (Jack Lemmon), improvise a quick plan to escape from Chicago with their lives. Disguising themselves as women, they join an all-female jazz band and hop a train bound for sunny Florida. While Joe pretends to be a millionaire to win the band's sexy singer, Sugar (Marilyn Monroe), Jerry finds himself pursued by a real millionaire (Joe E. Brown) as things heat up and the mobsters close in. Get tickets HERE.

With flaws that outweigh his talent, reporter Chuck Tatum (Kirk Douglas) has bounced across the country from job to job. Winding up in New Mexico, Tatum gets work from the local newspaper, but finds that there's not much in the way of pressing news. However, when Tatum catches wind of a treasure hunter (Richard Benedict) trapped in a mineshaft, he turns the story into a media sensation. Soon Tatum is using unscrupulous tactics to draw out the situation, an approach that comes back to haunt him. Get tickets HERE.

In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on killing her husband (Tom Powers) and living off the fraudulent accidental death claim. Prompted by the late Mr. Dietrichson's daughter, Lola (Jean Heather), insurance investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) looks into the case, and gradually begins to uncover the sinister truth. Get tickets HERE.

Many of us—quite understandably—f​eel anxious about what comes next after our time in an MFA program, but there are many paths one can take afterward to support themselves and their writing. Please join professors Crystal Wilkinson and Andrew Milward for a discussion about "Life After the MFA" on Friday November 1 at 5pm.