Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony 2018
The College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Awards and Recognition Ceremony.
End of Year MFA Reading
Graduating MFA in Creative Writing students will read their work. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Casual Colloquium
Omaria Sanchez Pratt is a first year MFA candidate at UK. She graduated from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington with a theatre degree before moving to New York City where writing fiction became her passion and focus. She has been a barista, coffee roaster, literary intern, meat slicer, warehouse worker, sandwich artist, mailroom clerk, canvasser, and a few other titles not worthy of mentioning.
This story I will be presenting is “A Eulogy for Kevin Springer”
Abstract: “Kevin Springer was a bully up until the moment of his death…” goes the first line of this story which deals with grief, revenge, unfinished business, and brotherly bond. Set in a marginalized community, what does it mean to write people outside of the mainstream? Is it about the death of an unlikely hero? The lives Kevin has affected? A revenge tale for the bullied? This story explores all of these questions.