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☆ The Creative Writing Program at @univofalabama
☆ Home of Black Warrior Review, Boyfriend Village online, & Red Rook Press
☆ Roll Tide! 🐘✨

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NEW EPISODE! 🎧 BOOKS ON THE BED with Brooke Champagne 📚

Listen to us talk all about Brooke’s splendid 6 BOTBs + her outstanding memoir NOLA FACE, growing up all over New Orleans & the indefinable nature of the West Bank, translating the immense life & love of her Lala, seeing your name in a book for the first time, how to write from the perspective your child-self, finding peace in not knowing, Lala channeled through Clarice Lispector, self-definition/discovery/acceptance by writing honestly, and much more. Go listen now!!

Brooke’s Books on the Bed 📚

My Birthday Land Adventure

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Água Viva by Clarice Lispector

In Search of Lost Time Volume 1: Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust

The Liar’s Club by Mary Karr

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

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On Friday, October 2nd, I’m launching my second book, The Soulmate Project, with the wonderful @ernestandhadleybooks . To celebrate, we’re doing a giveaway! If you want to win a free copy of the book, please like this post, comment on this post, share it, or tag someone who you think needs to read this book. Each action gets you an additional entry, and the winner will be chosen randomly.

The winner will be announced at the book launch, and online afterwards. The free book can be picked up at @ernestandhadleybooks , which means you need to be able to be in Tuscaloosa, AL.

@ua_creativewriting, I want you to know about this.

This book was published by the amazing @west44books — here’s what it’s about!

In the near future, a scientific development is changing the way people have relationships. People no longer find their own spouses; they’re assigned them by the government using an AI program meant to create optimal happiness. The assignments happen at age 18, and Delphine “Del” Everett doesn’t want any part of it. She’s in love with her boyfriend Tobias and wants to stay with him. But she’s legally required to fill out an application explaining what she wants in a partner. She tries to tailor her application so that she’ll get assigned to Tobias, and he does the same with his. When their plan doesn’t work, Delphine is determined to make her relationship with her new partner, Jasper, fail. But she soon finds her future hangs in the balance between matters of the heart, and the science that claims to have all the answers.

#bookstagram #books #yabooks #scifi #giveaway

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This week, Sali went to Alabama

#pictureoftheday
#theshipikishaclub
#bookstagram

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IT'S THE OFFICIAL RELEASE DAY! My debut collection, Ará’lúèbó: The Immigrant Monologues, came out today and I couldn't be happier. Thank you to everyone who has supported this book so far by pre-ordering copies, sharing it with their network, inviting me to read, attending my signing events, and keeping my name in the literary press. I appreciate your gift of community. Love you all!

The book is all yours now! Link to purchase in my bio :D

📷: @picklefaith

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We are honored to be hosting Book Signing & Talk with Gary Tyler: Author, Artist, Activist tomorrow afternoon starting at 5:30 pm in the Brick House.

From being the youngest man on death row to becoming a renowned artist and author, Mr. Tyler has a story that needs to be heard and discussed.

Join us. All are welcome. Registration is encouraged.

#indiebookstore #civilrights #quilting #indieauthor #GaryTyler

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Jacqueline Allen Trimble is Alabama’s Poet Laureate and a longtime friend and audience favorite of the Monroeville Literary Festival. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow (Poetry), a Cave Canem Graduate Fellow, and an Alabama State Council on the Arts Literary Fellow (2017, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in various journals including Poetry Magazine, The Louisville Review, Salvation South, and Poet Lore, as well as numerous anthologies. She is the author of American Happiness, winner of the Balcones Poetry Prize, and How to Survive the Apocalypse, listed as one of the top ten best poetry books of 2022 by New York Public Library. She lives and writes in Montgomery, where she is a professor of English and chairs the Department of Languages and Literature at Alabama State University. Trimble earned a B.A. from Huntingdon College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in English from the University of Alabama.

Jacqueline Trimble will interview her longtime friend Honorée Fanonne Jeffers on Friday, Feb. 27 at 11 a.m.

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~Your shelves are never full enough~ You can always get more books 📚✨

EGO book sale Feb. 9th.

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This month, I wrapped up my first semester of the MFA in creative writing program at The University of Alabama 🍐 roll tide

poem: “Matins” by Louise Glück

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Thanks, AL DENTE - food journal of Univ. of ALABAMA's Creative Writing Program - very cool use of digital technology +honored to be a visual-food branch in your esri ArcGIS StoryMap.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5d7927d2ab904a0f9df958b32f7f65dc

#storytelling #food #foodjournal #creativewriting #read #write #look #tasty #branch #tree #limb #trunk #alabama #bama

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At @ua_creativewriting ‘s first year reading series, I shared the first few pages of my upcoming Hi-Lo novel-in-verse, This Trauma is Sponsored, which is coming out in December with @west44books. This is my first book, and I’m so excited to get to share it with the world. Here’s the summary:

“Rosalie Solis has been the oldest daughter of an online influencer family for as long as she can remember. Her most private moments have been filmed, monetized, and put online for the whole world to see. She hates not having any privacy, but it’s the only thing she’s ever known. When her parents start pushing five-year-old Genevieve into the spotlight, Rosalie is concerned for her little sister’s well-being. Though she intends to put filming drama behind her, she’s finally forced into a situation that crosses a line. Rosalie needs to stand up for the life she wants, the relationship she’s hiding, and the trauma she’s suffered on camera. But how can she spoil the perfect picture her family has created?”

Want a copy? You can pre-order it here:

https://enslow.com/title/This-Trauma-Is-Sponsored

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We asked a bunch of MFA directors to tell us their BEST tip for standing out during the application season and it’s been eye-opening.

This one is courtesy of John Estes, Director of Creative Writing at The University of Alabama, and the fact that it sounds poetic in and of itself is just…well perfect.

#WritingMFA #CreativeWritingMFA #MFAProgram #MFAWriter #AmWriting #RollTide #UniversityOfAlabama #BamaBound

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