Creative Writing Association (CWA)

The Creative Writing Association, is a student organization that exists to promote community and support among the creative writing students—both undergraduate and graduate—within the English Department.   We have three primary activities:  

1. Every fall semester CWA hosts a series of open mic nights in the coffee shops around Stillwater.   These events are especially geared to give undergraduate writers the chance to be heard, but graduate students are also encouraged to attend and to read, time allowing after the undergraduate readers have finished.
2. Every spring semester CWA hosts the Graduate Student Reading Series, evenings held in one of the on-campus auditoriums or reading rooms in which graduate student creative writers read their work before their friends, colleagues, and professors.
3. Whenever possible, CWA sponsors readings by writers from outside the student population.   Last year we hosted or co-hosted readings by Dagoberto Gilb, Ai, Susan Thames, and Bryan Dietrich.  

For more information, contact claydmatthews@sbcglobal.net

Officers for the 2005-2006 School Year:

President: Clay Matthews
Vice-President: Dinah Cox
Secretary: Scott Norenberg
Treasurer: Robin Carstensen
Faculty Sponsor: Lisa Lewis

English Department
College of Arts & Sciences
Oklahoma State University
205 Morrill Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078
Phone: 405-744-9474
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