Category: Creative Writing

The November 30, 2017 launch party for Reunion: The Dallas Review, Volume 7, was held at Deep Vellum Books in Deep Ellum. The staff, graduate students Chelsea Barnard, Kenady Toombs, Jennifer Crumley and Brian DiNuzzo, organized a warm and cordial gathering in an intimate space. The issue itself is a grand accomplishment, and it is one in […]

Two graduate students won first-place awards from the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers and have been invited to read at the association’s annual meeting in September in San Antonio. Jennifer O’Neill, who is pursuing a master’s degree in studies in literature, took first place in the Graduate Student Fiction category. O’Neill studied under Dr. […]

The School of Arts and Humanities welcomed two new professors this fall to expand the literary studies program at UT Dallas. Dr. Ashley Barnes, assistant professor of literature, focuses on 19th- and 20th-century American literature. Dr. Manuel Martinez, professor of creative writing and literature, is an expert in Chicano and American countercultural literature. “The addition […]

Dr. Clay Reynolds, director of creative writing at UT Dallas, sat down recently with Lone Star Literary Life to discuss his career as an award-winning author. “My wife worked evening shifts, and we had two small children in diapers at home,” he said in the interview. “Reading or really doing much of anything else was […]

Jessica Miller, UT Dallas graduate student, has had her story, “A Matter of Procedure,” accepted for publication in Shenandoah, one of the more prestigious literary reviews in the country. Publication is slated for the Fall 2014 edition of the magazine. Clay Reynolds’ story, “Gethsemane,” has been named a finalist for the Best Short Fiction Award in […]

Clay Reynolds’ collection of personal essays, Of Snakes and Sex and Playing in the Rain, has been reissued in e-book format by Baen publishers. This collection, originally published in limited edition in 2007 by Stone River Press, a small literary publishing company, contains Reynolds’ observations on such subjects as coffee, urban legends, children’s literature, and […]

Faculty from the creative writing department have published new works over the summer, including a book-length collection of short stories. In his new book titled, Vox Populi, Dr. Clay Reynolds, director of creative writing a UT Dallas, puts himself in the shoes of a nameless and sometimes hapless narrator that moves through a series of […]

A poem from creative writing prof Susan Briante has been selected by the Academy of American Poets for their Poem-A-Day program. Briante’s poetry has appeared in more than 90 journals including New American Writing, TriQuarterly, and Ploughshares as well as been featured on the Academy of American Poets Poem-A-Day website and as part of the Poetry in Motion […]

2011 Spur Award winner and UT Dallas professor Clay Reynolds has re-issued all his works of fiction in ebook format. The ebooks include the historical western and Pulitzer and WWA Spur Award finalist and Violet Crown-winning novel Franklin’s Crossing, along with the historical western The Tentmaker, and novels set in contemporary or near-contemporary times, Monuments, Ars Poetica , Threading […]

Dr. Matt Bondurant’s 2008 book, The Wettest County in the World, has made the leap to the big screen, and on Wednesday, Aug. 29, the film adaptation opened in theaters in a movie called, Lawless, starring Shia LaBeouf. Read more.