Celebrating our veteran students today 💐 Pictured: Eric Mansfield, U.S. Army (playwriting), & Julianne Taylor, U.S. Navy (fiction)

Deadline is this Saturday --- get those apps in 📝

TONIGHT

Want to start your MFA experience next semester? Get your applications in by Saturday, 11/15, to be considered for spring admission 💐 Details at neomfa.org/apply 📝

Next Friday!

New short story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up on After the Storm Magazine 🔥🔥🔥 afterthestormmagazine.com/2025/10/19/o...

🎃 Happy Halloween 👻 In honor of the spookiest day of the year, we're flashing-back (flashbacking?) to this bone-chiller, "I Never Saw the Knife," by current Kent fiction candidate @cheyenneshaffer.bsky.social, published recently in Cosmic Horror Monthly 🔪🩸🫣

The next 2x2 is Nov 7th, featuring a reading from current student Ashton Leigh & musical stylings from alum Matt Dettmer 🎙️🎸📚

Mark your calendars 🗓️ This Saturday (11am-1pm, 11/1) our Prog. Dir. @marybid.bsky.social will be at The Learned Owl Bookshop in Hudson OH for a book signing of her new novella-in-flash, "The Girl with the Black Lipstick" 🖤💛 Come say hi 👋 & pick up a signed copy ✍️ learnedowl.com/event/2025-1...

Mark your calendars 🗓️ The @midamericanreview.bsky.social Winter Wheat Festival of Writing is NEXT WEEKEND! Featuring workshops from current fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro & alum Anastasios Mihalopoulos (Poetry, YSU '23). casit.bgsu.edu/winterwheat/ See you there!

Congratulations to two NEOMFA alums, Carrie George & Benjamin Rhodes, on their Best of the Net nominations from @crayfishmag.bsky.social 🏆

Mark those calendars 🗓️

New story from fiction candidate Mish Gajewski-Zambataro up now on @thedodgemag.bsky.social 🦟

🚨Pub Alert🚨 A debut collection - Konbit - from alum Sony Ton-Aime (Poetry, Kent ‘19) 💫 Order here: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

💡Local Literary Event💡 Our neighbors at CWRU are hosting poet Pádraig Ó Tuama for "Encountering Self and Other: A Conversation" on Nov 6th 🗣️ Mark your calendars 🗓️ case.edu/artsci/baker...

Read the latest piece from poetry candidate @ironbrewer.bsky.social - “Gas Guzzler Ghazal” - up at Wildscape Lit ⛽️🪾☠️ wildscapelit.com/gas-guzzler-...

Spectacular NEOMFA poets El Bentivegna & Julia Cilano spotted at the @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 👀👀 Come say hi 👋 we’re here til 4pm 📚

Tonight at Last Exit Books in Kent, come hear words from fiction candidate Willow Campbell 🎙️🌈💫

Tonight!

ONE MONTH until our first application deadline! Writers interested in spring 2026 matriculation: plan on hitting submit by 11/15 📝

Playwriting candidate Eric Mansfield is holding a staged reading for his new full-length drama, "Ride or Die," on Nov 14th, 7:30pm, at the Coach House Theatre in Akron. Tix are FREE; register here: makeshift.booktix.com/dept/main/e/...

@lityoungstown.bsky.social kicks off this week with readings from @crayfishmag.bsky.social, featuring two current NEOMFA writers: Bella Kaufman & Julia Cilano 🦞🎙️📚 www.lityoungstown.org/2025-festiva...

Next weekend!

This issue also features poetry from alum Caid Young — another great reason to check it out 🍅🍅🍅

Check out the NEOMFA contributors to @crayfishmag.bsky.social's second issue, 🚀 FUTURES 🚀 📵 fiction from Alexandra Salata (Kent '24) 🔥 poetry from Olivia Mirmohamed (Kent '26) 🛰️ guest-editing from Isaiah Hunt (Kent '22) Read it all: www.crayfishmag.com/number-two-c...

New prose poem from @marybid.bsky.social out now at @thimblelitmag.bsky.social ❤️‍🩹 Read here: www.thimblelitmag.com/2025/07/21/e...

Tonight!

Final weekend!

One week left to check out "The Art of Seeing: Reflections on Art through Poetry" at the Kent School of Art, featuring poetics from several current students & alum. Pictured is Lauren Merry Vale, class of 2013, poet & associate professor at KSU. Learn more: www.kent.edu/art/news/art...

New work from faculty Caryl Pagel (CSU) in the inaugural issue of Either/Or Magazine 💫 Check it out: www.eitherormagazine.com/store-1/p/is...

New poem - "Another Round" - from poetry candidate Corey Miller (CSU) in the Fall 2025 issue of The Potomac Review 💫 mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/potomacrevie...

So many NEOMFA students/alum/faculty involved in this year's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival 📝📚 We're leading workshops & discussions on The Necropastoral, Poetic Soundscapes, Small Press Ecologies, & more 💜 Learn more: www.lityoungstown.org/2025-fall-li...

🚨Pub Alert🚨 New chapbook, "Crossing the Line," from alum Dan Dorman (poetry, CSU '17), out with Bottlecap Press 💫 bottlecap.press/products/cro...

Mark your 🗓️

Congratulations to alum Anastasios Mihalopoulos (Poetry, YSU ‘23), winner of the 2025 Felloweship for New Immigrant Authors from @blacklawrence.bsky.social blacklawrencepress.com/2025fellowsh...

🚨Pub Alert🚨 Alum Jon Conley (Poetry, CSU '22) has released "Deadheading," a poetry collection, with Community Mausoleum 🥀 Congrats, Jon! Check it out, pick it up: www.communitymausoleum.org/books/p/dead...

Mark your calendars 🕸️ Featuring @marybid.bsky.social

Events begin tonight 🌿

Check out the latest short prose from our Program Director & UA faculty, @marybid.bsky.social, up at @whaleroadreview.bsky.social 🐳 www.whaleroadreview.com/biddinger/

New poem by candidate Corey Miller up at @mudroommag.bsky.social 👟 www.mudroommag.com/corey-miller

🎙️ Tonight Tonight Tonight 🎙️

Our friends at Kent’s Wick Poetry Center are celebrating their new publication, “The Nature of Our Times,” with a number of events — be sure to check them out 🌱🌱🌱 www.kent.edu/wick/reading...

Holding steady at @literarycleveland.bsky.social Inkubator 25 ✍️🔥 Come say hi 👋

CSU fiction candidate Willow Campbell reviews “Realistic Fiction” by Anton Solomonik for Cleveland Review of Books 💫 clereviewofbooks.com/anton-solomo...

Important news about "Important Groups" by faculty Hilary Plum: it's back in print. www.communitymausoleum.org/books/p/impo...

"No One Knows Their Blood Type," published by the CSU Poetry Center, has been long-listed for the 2025 National Translation Award in Prose from @littranslate.bsky.social 💫 literarytranslators.org/awards/2025-...

This week!

Tonight w/ @marybid.bsky.social!!!

Tonight!

Mark your 🗓️ Faculty Hilary Plum & @marybid.bsky.social are reading alongside alum Jon Conley & others at Rhizome House, Monday, 9/15 — don’t miss it!