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This is the new Writing Department's page for Western Connecticut State University.

05/03/2025

A group shot from the WCSU Poets event at Byrd's Books this past Wednesday, featuring the poets, Dr. Clements, and Alice Hutchinson, owner of Byrd's Books. Thanks to Alice for hosting such a great night!

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04/30/2025

Congratulations to our writing award winners from Monday night! These students have worked hard all year, and throughout all of their semesters. They are incredibly deserving of the recognition and all the success that will find them.

A special congratulations and thank you goes to Professor Roche, who received the "Big Cookie Award" for his dedication and commitment to this program and the students in it.

04/28/2025

Event announcement! Byrd's Books is hosting a WCSU Poets event! Two MFA poets and two undergraduate poets will be reading at 7 pm this Wednesday, April 30th. You don't want to miss the readings from these amazing poets. Learn more about the readers in the "Meet the Poets" slides!

04/26/2025

Four WCSU writing students were recognized for their hard work and accomplishments at the Honors Convocation on Thursday night! Congratulations to Alivia, Caitriona, Danielle, and Timothy!

04/10/2025

Here is a great scholarship opportunity for all WCSU undergraduate students!

04/02/2025

Monday night, we were honored to welcome National Book Award winner Martín Espada back to Western Connecticut State University for the first reading of his new poetry collection "Jailbreak of Sparrows." Afterwards, he joined Dr. Clements for a conversation with the audience, and signed copies of his new book. Thank you Martín for joining us, and thank you Dr. Clements and the Kathwari Honors Program for hosting such a great event!

03/26/2025

The WCSU Career Success Center is hosting the Spring Career Fair at the Danbury Fair Mall next Wednesday, April 2nd, from 3-6 PM! Don't miss out on amazing career opportunities!

03/25/2025

The WCSU MFA Dublin Residency is an incredible part of the WCSU writing experience. Apply to this year's residency today!

03/13/2025

We're just over a week away from our screening of “Sing Sing” and conversation with legendary journalist John H. Richardson at Greenwood Features in Bethel, Conn. on March 22 at 2 PM. After a special screening, we’ll chat about the critically-acclaimed film “Sing Sing,” based on John’s fantastic Esquire Magazine story from 2005.

At Sing Sing, the infamous, Gothic maximum-security prison on the Hudson River in New York, some of the incarcerated pass their time and slay inner demons performing theater—in this case, a silly slapstick comedy about pirates, gladiators, and mummies on a wacky journey through time. We’ll discuss the film with the writer of the source material.

Tickets are available through Greenwood Features and the book is on sale now at The BookSmiths Shoppe!

Paid entrants are automatically entered into a raffle for gift cards from Stanziato's, Grounds Donut House, and Peachwave of Bethel!

03/10/2025

Byrd's Books is hosting a free Poetry in the Afternoon event this Sunday! Bethel's Poet Laureate Rick Magee, Sandy Carlson, Michael Garry and Martin Giroux will be reading from their new anthology, Personal Freedom. You can sign up at byrdsbooks.com.

03/01/2025

WCSU writing student Timothy Froessel has had his first poetry chapbook "Two Shipwrecks Holding Hands at the Bottom of the Ocean" published by Bottlecap Press.

"You’ll see a lot of things when you can see nothing but the ocean. Below you, there will be the octopus who can’t quite master playing bass guitar. The fisherman obsessed with skipping rocks will pass by you as he ventures out to sea once again. The sound of some sailor begging to a cartoon god to let them become a goldfish will surround you. You’ll feel a million shipwrecks thirst for your buoyancy.

Two Shipwrecks Holding Hands at the Bottom of the Ocean takes you through literal and figurative sinkings. For every plummeting vessel, there’s a child losing innocence and learning nostalgia. It’s not all doom and gloom, though. These 22 nautically preposterous poems only want to wrap you in a wave’s blanket and give you a teddy bear to hold to your heart."

You can purchase copies at https://bottlecap.press/products/shipwrecks

Congratulations, Timothy!

02/22/2025

The deadline to submit to Black & White 2025 has been extended to Friday, February 28th! Be sure to submit!

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