2012 Backbone Mountain Review Call for Submissions

CALLING ALL REGIONAL POETS & WRITERS! Do you write poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, or plays? Do you reside in Allegany County, or the surrounding four-state region? If so, the . . . 2012 Backbone Mountain Review is now calling for submissions!!! An annual, literary publication of the Allegany Arts Council, the Frostburg Center for Creative [...]

News From Our Friends

Lines + Stars The Spring 2011 issue of Lines + Stars, “Recurrence,” is online! Submissions are open for the Summer issue.  The topic for the Summer issue is “distractions and amusements.” The deadline is May 20th, 2011. Furniture Press Books Christophe Casamassima, Director of Literary & Performance Arts and editor of Furniture Press Books is [...]

Summer Nightsun Writers Conference

Nightsun Writers Conference The Frostburg Center for Creative Writing is happy to announce the fourth annual Nightsun Writers Conference scheduled to be held Thursday, July 28, through Sunday, July 31, in downtown Frostburg, MD. The conference will feature workshops with Kim Dana Kupperman, (creative nonfiction), Jim Daniels, (poetry) and Brad Barkley (fiction). The weekend will [...]

Daryl Gregory Reading

Frostburg State University and the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing welcome noted Science Fiction author Daryl Gregory on Tuesday, April 12, 2011 at 7:30 p.m at the Lyric Theater. Gregory is the author The Devil’s Alphabet (2009) and Pandemonium, his first published novel that won the 2009 World Fantasy Award and were finalists for The [...]

Literary Journal Subscriptions at the Center

Here’s a list of  the Center for Creative Writing’s current literary journal subscriptions. Check out their websites and stop by the Center to take a look at recent issues! Bayou Magazine A young publication with an old soul, each issue of Bayou Magazine contains stunningly beautiful fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Bellingham Review Literature of palpable [...]