The Center for Writers

The Center for Writers The Center for Writers is the creative writing program at the University of Southern Mississippi Between 35 and 40 students work toward M.A. and Ph.D.

degrees in English with emphases in fiction or poetry, and each student completes a creative thesis or dissertation to fulfill requirements for the degree. The tone of the program is serious but informal, with workshops offered in fiction, non-fiction, prose, and poetry by the program's distinguished faculty. Additional courses in craft, literary forms, and teaching creative writing are also offer

ed regularly, and students participate in a regular reading series and in the publication of a student journal, Product. The department is also home to the Mississippi Review, a nationally recognized literary magazine. Students and graduates have won the Whiting Award, the Henfield Prize, the Flannery O'Connor Award and National Endowment fellowships and published books with Counterpoint, William Morrow, St. Martins, Ticknor and Fields, Georgia, Red Hen, Faber & Faber, Atlantic Monthly Press, Prentice Hall, Sarabande, and a number of other first rank presses.

Congratulations to Emilee KinneyStreu for being a 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project winner! Emilee's poem "Night Market in...
05/01/2026

Congratulations to Emilee KinneyStreu for being a 2026 AWP Intro Journals Project winner! Emilee's poem "Night Market in Dresden, Ontario" will be published in Puerto del Sol.

04/17/2026
We loved hosting Elizabeth Miki Brina and Daniel SC Sutter for our final Visiting Writers Series of the Spring semester....
04/17/2026

We loved hosting Elizabeth Miki Brina and Daniel SC Sutter for our final Visiting Writers Series of the Spring semester. Liz (author of Speak, Okinawa) read from her new work and Dan read us an incredible short story from his collection Debris coming out May 3rd!

Join the Center for Writers at USM as we host Elizabeth Miki Brina and Daniel S.C. Sutter for our final Visiting Writers...
04/07/2026

Join the Center for Writers at USM as we host Elizabeth Miki Brina and Daniel S.C. Sutter for our final Visiting Writers Series of the Spring 26 semester! Elizabeth and Daniel will read their work and their books Speak, Okinawa and Debris, respectively, will be available for purchase at the event.

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