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Join the Creative Writing Department in celebration of our graduating students, who will share and read from their final creative work and theses.

Middlebury alums Lauren Markham and Chris Knapp will read from their recent work and take questions. 

Join Dr. Katharine Wilkinson, climate activist and author of All We Can Save, for a Fireside Chat on Environmental Storytelling in Our Times, via Zoom - . 

Meeting ID 961 9620 5989
Passcode 020220

Student Robin Potter leads a panel discussion of gender and outdoors culture. 

Join renowned fiction and non-fiction author Emily Raboteau for an environmentally-minded reading and talk in Axinn 232.

More information can be found on the English Department News and Events webpage

Poets Emily Lee Luan (‘15), Leslie Sainz (Managing Editor, New England Review), and Margaret Ray (‘07) will read from their new collections. More information can be found on the English Department events webpage.

Laurie Sheck will be giving a multimedia presentation about her recently published hybrid fiction: Island of the Mad, which involves the discovery of a mysterious notebook and the life of Dostoevsky and is set in the Venetian lagoon. She is also the author of A Monster’s Notes (2009), centered around the un-named “monster” in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, still alive in the 21st century. A Monster’s Notes was nominated for the International DUBLIN Literary Award and was named one of the 10 Best Fictions of the Year by Entertainment Weekly.

A reading by Lauren Markham, ‘06, and Sierra Murdoch ‘09.5, who return to Middlebury to co-teach their J-term class, “Writing What You Don’t Know: The Ethics and Craft of Narrative Journalism.”

Recent alumnae as well as Middlebury Fellows in Environmental Journalism, Markham and Murdoch have recently published or are about to publish major books.

Mark Doty is the author of nine books of poetry, including Deep Lane (April 2015), Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems, which won the 2008 National Book Award, and My Alexandria, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the T.S. Eliot Prize in the UK. He is also the author of three memoirs: the New York Times-bestselling Dog Years, Firebird, and Heaven’s Coast, as well as a book about craft and criticism, The Art of Description: World Into Word.