Events & Announcements

Save the dates for these Center for Literary Arts events, and check back or keep an eye on our Instagram and our Facebook group for links and further details. 

Reading Series

9/27 George Guida, 7 PM, Clatter 

Indie Lit Kickoff Reading

George Guida is the author of ten books, including the novels The Uniform (Guernica Editions, 2024) and Posts from Suburbia (Encircle Publications, 2022); and The Pope Stories and Other Tales of Troubled Times (Bordighera Press, 2012), as well as the poetry collections Zen of Pop (Long Sky Media, 2020), New York and Other Lovers (Encircle Publications, 2020), and Pugilistic (WordTech Editions, 2015). He curates the Finger Lakes Arts Series in Dansville, New York and teaches writing and literature at New York City College of Technology.

This reading is part of the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, a weekend celebrating the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent publishing.

For additional information see the festival website. 

10/10 Amanda Newell, 7:30 PM, Main Street Books

Amanda Newell is the author of Postmortem Say (Červená Barva 2024) and I Will Pass Even to Acheron, a winner of Rattle's 2021 chapbook prize. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Barrow Street, Bellevue Literary Review, Cimarron Review, Gargoyle, and elsewhere. A graduate of Warren Wilson's MFA Program, she has received scholarships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and The Frost Place and a fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is an associate editor at Plume. www.amandanewellpoet.com

10/24 Todd Davis, 7:00 PM, Lewis J. Ort Library, 3rd Floor 

Todd Davis is the author of eight full-length collections of poetry — Ditch Memory: New & Selected Poems, Coffin Honey, Native Species, Winterkill, In the Kingdom of the Ditch, The Least of These, Some Heaven, and Ripe — as well as of a limited edition chapbook, Household of Water, Moon, and Snow. He edited the nonfiction collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball, and co-edited A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia and Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets. His poetry has appeared in Ted Kooser's syndicated newspaper column American Life in Poetry and has been anthologized in such books as The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry and Bedford/St. Martin's textbook, Approaching Literature. His poems have won the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editor's Prize, the Midwest Book Award, the ForeWord INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. More than 400 of his poems have appeared in such noted journals and magazines as American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, Ecotone, North American Review, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, Poetry Northwest, Gettysburg Review, Orion, West Branch, Southern Humanities Review, and Poetry Daily. He teaches creative writing, American literature, and environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.

Coffee With A Writer/Artist 

These informal readings and discussions begin at 10 AM in the Center for Literary Arts, RM 237 Lewis J. Ort Library

10/5--Bob Walicki

11/2--Cole Fiscus 

12/7--Julie Castillo 

All Center for Literary Arts events are supported by the Allegany Arts Council, the Community Trust Foundation, the City of Frostburg, MD, the Lewis J. Ort Library, and several offices at Frostburg State University, including the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Department of English and Foreign Languages.

FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services, and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. You may request accommodation through the Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Office, 301.687.3035, TDD 301.687.7955.

FSU's campus parking lots are open to all in the evening, no permit required.

Some past Center for Literary Arts Events have been archived on YouTube.