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Happy belated birthday, @matt_damon_official
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Listen to visiting writer Stacey Waite read a poem inspired by Good Will himself! (I've never seen it 😔 )
Filmed at the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus Bookstore for the Writers on the Bay Reading Series.
#fiuenglish #fiu #literaryeventsmiami #poetry #spokenwordpoetry by @creativewritingfiu

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5 days ago

Repost from @juliemariewade Last night Magic City really lived up to its name when Stacey Waite gave a magical reading at FIU! taken in Florida International University by @creativewritingfiu

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9 days ago

Join us this Thursday as we welcome Stacey Waite to the FIU Biscayne Bay Campus.

Stacey Waite is the Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska - Lincoln and is the author of five collections of poetry: Choke (winner of the Frank O’Hara Prize for Poetry), Love Poem to Androgyny, the lake has no saint (Winner of the Snowbound Prize for Poetry), Butch Geography (2013), and A Real Man Would Have A Gun (University of New Mexico Press, 2025). Waite is also the author of Teaching Queer: Radical Possibilities for Writing and Knowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017). Working in both creative writing and composition studies, Waite is also co-editor of Inventing the Discipline: Student Work in Composition Studies and the textbook, Ways of Reading. Waite’s poetry and essays have appeared in such journals as Writing on the Edge, Assay, New Territory, Literacy in Composition Studies, and Black Warrior Review. Waite’s poems have been anthologized in a range of collections including Best American Poetry and The Norton Introduction to Literature. Waite's most recent collection was shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ+ Poetry. by @creativewritingfiu

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13 days ago

Congratulations to the newest member of our Creative Writing Program faculty: Ana Menéndez! by @creativewritingfiu

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19 days ago

Honest Liars is back! Join us on September 24th, 2026 for an evening of poetry, prose, and work that lives in the spaces in-between. The open-mic begins at 6:30pm at the Coconut Grove Books and Books. Come ready to share some of your writing and support writers from the FIU community and beyond. Hope to see you there! by @creativewritingfiu

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Join us on Sunday, September 27 for this year's MFA Alumni Reading. We'll be featuring the talented writers who successfully defended their theses and graduated this past spring! by @creativewritingfiu

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Another year, another wonderful get together potluck at Casa Standiford! by @creativewritingfiu

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2 months ago

Every year at the start of the fall semester we celebrate the Creative Writing community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni that are lifeblood of our MFA program. Take a look back on some of the memories we've made at our annual welcome back party! by @creativewritingfiu

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2 months ago

The submission period for applications to Writers in Paradise 2027 begins today! Here's your chance to study with some of the most talented, successful, and generous writers in the country. Don't miss out! by @creativewritingfiu

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3 months ago

Last night's annual FIU Student Literary Awards celebration was one for the books! by @creativewritingfiu

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6 months ago

taken in The Betsy - South Beach by @creativewritingfiu

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7 months ago

Current MFA student, Amanda Johnson (AJ), has been named a winner of the 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project in poetry! AJ's work was selected from scores of other entries submitted by MFA programs across the country. Her winning poem, "Persephone," will appear in a future issue of the COLORADO REVIEW. #fiugrad by @creativewritingfiu

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