Creative Writing Programs at UCA

Let's talk about zines!

Creative Writing Club is meeting Thursday, October 1st during X-Period! 1:40 - 2:30pm in Win Thompson room 104.

Whether you’re a poet, fiction writer, screen writer, or just like being around people who talk about books too much – come hang out! All majors are welcome.

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Y’all come out for Carrie Lee South, a UCA MFA alum at the 2026 Six Bridges Book Festival! We need to celebrate her chilling debut novel, In the Woods They Wait.⁠

Saturday, October 3
1:00pm
CALS Main Library
100 S. Rock St, Little Rock
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Set deep in the Arkansas Ozarks, the novel follows park ranger Audrey Figg, whose younger brother disappeared fifteen years ago at Devil’s Den State Park. When another child vanishes under eerily similar circumstances, Audrey is pulled back into the mystery—and forced to confront the possibility that something sinister may be waiting in the woods.⁠
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Blending suspense, horror, and a vivid sense of place, In the Woods They Wait is a haunting story rooted in the landscapes of our state.

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UCA's own Dr. Jennifer Case will be at the Six Bridges Book Festival with her new book, The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World, which looks at what care means in a time of climate crisis. She'll be joined by Dr. Allison Alford (Good Daughtering), with moderator Jennifer O'Brien.

Saturday, October 3
5:30–6:30pm
CALS Main Library
100 S. Rock Street, Little Rock

This is just one of many sessions at the festival. Six Bridges runs September 27 through October 4, with plenty more to see and hear. The full schedule and event sign-up is at sixbridgesbookfestival.org.

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UCA’s own Prof. Acie Clark will be reading from his debut poetry collection, Small Talk, winner of the Hub City Press New Southern Voices Poetry Prize, as part of the Six Bridges Book Festival. He'll be joined by poets Ellie Black (Revelator) and Lee Bains (Work Lunch), with moderator Matt White

Monday, September 28
6:30–7:30pm
White Water Tavern
2500 W. 7th St, Little Rock

The event is at a tavern, but it's open to all ages. This is just one night of the festival. Six Bridges runs September 27 through October 4, with plenty more to see and hear. The full schedule and event sign-up is at sixbridgesbookfestival.org

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Have you considered going on to graduate school in creative writing, but you have a lot of questions? This is the place to be to find those answers!

We will be hosting the Creative Writing Graduate School Information Session to answer questions you may have regarding any step of the process.

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Poetry at the Public is back for 2026-2027!

Join the Faulkner County Library and our friends at the School of Language and Literature on Sunday, September 20th for an afternoon of poetry and community. Doors open at 2:00pm; readings start at 2:30pm.

Paulette Guerin is an Associate Professor of English at Harding University and a UCA alum (MA in English). She's the author of Wading Through Lethe, with a new book, When I First Loved You, forthcoming.

Michael Blanchard is an adjunct professor in UCA's School of Language & Literature and the author of five poetry collections, most recently The Things of This World, out this past February.

Come listen, bring a friend and…

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Bring your notebook!

Creative Writing Club is meeting Thursday, September 17th during X-Period! 1:40 - 2:30pm in Win Thompson room 104.

Whether you’re a poet, fiction writer, screen writer, or just like being around people who talk about books too much – come hang out! All majors are welcome.

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UCA Creative Writing alum, Kameron Morton (class of 2018) founds new literary magazine!

Penelle Magazine is a literary magazine that publishes poetry, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art. Founded by Morton (a UCA CRWR major!), the magazine has a special interest in publishing Southern and Arkansan authors. And they are OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS!

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Two of our own are reading downtown!

Dr. Jennie Case and Prof. Acie Clark are heading to The Secret Nook Coffee & Books on Tuesday, September 15 at 5pm for a joint reading and book signing!

Dr. Case will read from The Carework Project: Reckoning with Love, Labor, and the Living World, which explores the idea that “care work is climate work,” connecting domestic, personal and ecological care.

Prof. Clark will read from Small Talk, his debut poetry collection and winner of the New Southern Voices Poetry Prize. This collection believes in multiplicities, in the seemingly contradicting identities that make us who we are, and that talking to each other might still save us.

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Head to Little Rock on Thursday evening (9/10) at 6:30pm to hear Prof. Acie Clark read from his new book, alongside writer Sammy Mack as part of the Zeitgeist Reading Series! Arrive early if you want to order food & drinks!

(Prof. Clark will be reading in Conway on Tueday, 9/15 if you can't make it to LR.)

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