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The Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh Pitt Writers is a dynamic community of writers in all forms, styles, and genres.

Our three-year MFA program, directed by Jeanne Marie Laskas, offers tracks in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Pitt’s MFA program also supports a digital literary journal, Hot Metal Bridge, edited by its graduate students; hosts a weekly graduate student reading series, SpeakEasy; and welcomes numerous visiting writers through the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. We are particularly proud of our partnership with Longform.org - a site that recommends the best longform narrative journalism. Since the partnership began, MFA students have held editorial and podcasting internships with the site, and the co-founders recorded a live podcast with New York Times editor Joel Lovell that has been listened to nearly 30,000 times. This is just one of the many ways Pitt embraces and supports innovative writing. More about Longform: http://longform.org/

For more information about Pitt Writers, and to apply to our MFA program: http://www.writing.pitt.edu/

Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ #!/PittWriters

03/28/2024

For former students of Jeff Oaks.

Please come together to honor and celebrate the life of our friend, colleague, and teacher, Jeff Oaks, who passed away in December 2023.

We invite faculty and students to share memories and stories of Jeff or to read one of his poems. Please respond to this post by April 5 if you’d like to speak for 3-5 minutes.

April 19, 2024
1:00-3:00 speakers, 3:00-4:00 refreshments and conversation
Cathedral of Learning 501

Tomorrow night at the Understory—Heather Radke!
04/05/2023

Tomorrow night at the Understory—Heather Radke!

this week!
03/30/2023

this week!

Congrats to Alexandra Ross for her piece in Public Source!
03/03/2023

Congrats to Alexandra Ross for her piece in Public Source!

"The name has kind of become a little bit of an albatross around the school and an irony," says the principal, and the school should "serve our community and students where they actually are."

https://www.caapp.pitt.edu/opportunities/2020-caapp-book-prize
12/16/2022

https://www.caapp.pitt.edu/opportunities/2020-caapp-book-prize

Founded in 2020, the CAAPP Book Prize is a publishing partnership between the University of Pittsburgh’s Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and Autumn House Press with the goal of publishing and promoting a writer of African descent. The prize is awarded annually to a first or second b...

Our very own Tim Maddocks will be City of Asylum’s December 20 “Story Club Story Slam,” under the theme "I'll be home." ...
12/15/2022

Our very own Tim Maddocks will be City of Asylum’s December 20 “Story Club Story Slam,” under the theme "I'll be home." In-person and streaming reservations here:

In this monthly series hosted by the former producers of The Moth Pittsburgh, volunteer storytellers and featured performers take the stage at Alphabet City to share stories based on a theme.

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