Interview with Irene McKinney

The FSU Center for Creative Writing recently hosted a reading by poet Irene McKinney.  She is the author of six books of poetry, the most recent being Unthinkable: Selected Poems (2009).  McKinney has been the poet laureate of West Virginia since 1994 and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in [...]

Scary Story Contest

The Frostburg Center for Creative writing is happy to announce our third annual scary story contest. Stories must be 750 words or less and must be submitted as a .doc or .pdf attachment by Oct. 24 to cwcenter@frostburg.edu. Please do not put your name on the story itself but include it and the story title [...]

Poetry Slam

Come out Thursday, October 13, 2011, to Dante’s Bar to participate in the Poetry Slam, hosted by the Frostburg’s Center for Creative Writing. For a chance to win cash prizes, participants must read their poems on stage in front of a crowd of people and be judged on their performance and the quality of their [...]

Interviews for the Fifth Annual Western Maryland Small and Regional Press Festival

The fifth annual Western Maryland Small and Regional Press Festival will be held on the weekend of the 14th and 15th of October. This is an event that brings editors and publishers together with writers and teachers from Western Maryland. Free and open to the public, this is a chance to bring writers from all [...]

Poet Irene McKinney Read at Lyric Theater

Appalachian poet Irene McKinney, previous poet laureate of West Viginia, read at the Lyric Theater, Frostburg, MD on Tuesday, September 27. McKinney’s poetry revealed striking imagery and narrative of what it’s like to grow up in the secluded heartland of West Virginia. FSU student Deborah Wiles says about McKinney, “[She is] an insightful poet who [...]