Frostburg Center for Creative Writing

The Frostburg Center for Creative Writing provides a variety of opportunities in the literary arts for the greater Frostburg community (the Western Maryland panhandle, the Eastern WV panhandle, and Southwestern Pennsylvania) including access to living writers, writing workshops, and radio programming, as well as publication of a national literary journal (Nightsun) with significant distribution to area schools and a website with dedicated pages for educators to use with the journal.

Welcome

Housed in Tawes 215, The Frostburg Center for Creative Writing works to bring creative writing and writers to both Frostburg State University and the greater Frostburg community, including sections of Western Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.

For information on the center's activities, download our newsletter, The Writer's Notepad (downloadable PDF file). The center's activities include bringing writers to campus for public readings, workshops, and discussions; the publication and distribution of the national literary journal Nightsun; production of Oasis, a short weekly radio program on WFWM; a reading space with contemporary literary journals and access to a selection of the Lannan videos featuring writers such as Li-Young Lee, Adrienne Rich, Louise Gluck, and Octavio Paz; and literary opportunities for students and community members.

Click Here for a list of our donors.

Future goals for the center include the development of a creative writing house where visiting writers, students and community members could gather which would include a reading library of journals and books of contemporary literature; an annual writing conference; community workshops and internships; writing contests for area high school students; and creative writing forums/salons during which visiting and local writers would discuss a particular topic with community members and students.

Cosponsored by:

The Allegany Arts Council and The Allegany County Library System

Fall 2008-Spring 2009
Readings & Events

October:

10/2

7 pm

Banned Book Reading on the 5th floor of the FSU Library in Frostburg, MD

10/9

8 pm

Poetry Slam at Dante's in Frostburg, MD

10/19

1-3 pm

Poetry Tea featuring Jennifer Merrifield at the Saville Art Gallery in Cumberland, MD

10/21

7:30 pm

Susan Perabo Reading in FSU's Cook Chapel in Frostburg, MD

10/28

7 pm

Spooky Short Story Contest Reading in FSU's Lane Center in Frostburg, MD

November:

11/15

noon-4 pm

Writing and Music Workshop

11/16

1-3 pm

Poetry Tea featuring Brad Barkley at the Saville Art Gallery in Cumberland, MD

11/17

1-3 pm

Barbara Hurd reading at Main Street Books in Frostburg, MD

December:

12/21

1-3 pm

Special Children's Christmas Poetry Tea at the Saville Art Gallery in Cumberland, MD

February:

2/12

7:30 pm

Valentine's Day Reading at the Arts Council's facility in Downtown Cumberland, MD

March:

3/29

noon- 4 pm

Writing and Art Workshop

June:

6/21 -
6/27

Savage Mountain Creative Writing Workshop

August:

8/06 -
8/09

Nightsun Writer's Conference

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