Our next festival will be in April, 2010.

Please check back at the start of spring semester for more information. 

Past Festivals

Here's a list of all of our Emerging Writers, from EWF 8 (2009) to EWF 1 (2002):

EWF 8 (2009)

K.A. Hays, Poetry

Shane McCrae, Poetry

Dash Shaw, Cartoonist/Graphic Novelist

Laura van den Berg, Fiction 

Jaed Coffin, Nonfiction

EWF 7 (2008)

Remica Bingham, Poetry
Rachel DeWoskin, Nonfiction
Ilya Kaminsky, Poetry
Jess Row, Fiction
Emily Rapp, Nonfiction

EWF 6 (2007)
Cynthia Cruz, Poetry
Lauren Groff, Fiction
Jay Kirk, Nonfiction
Kevin Moffett, Fiction
Amaud Jamaul Johnson, Poetry

EWF 5 (2006)
Catherine Barnett, Poetry
Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Poetry
Alix Ohlin, Fiction
Lewis Robinson, Fiction
Sean Wilsey, Nonfiction

EWF 4 (2005)
Samina Ali, Fiction
Gabe Hudson, Fiction
Brad Land, Nonfiction
Sabrina Orah Mark, Poetry
Jan Pineda, Poetry

EWF 3 (2004)
Jeffery Renard Allen, Fiction
Erin Belieu, Poetry
Ted Genoways, Poetry
Peter Orner, Fiction
Vendela Vida, Nonfiction

EWF 2 (2003)
Brock Clarke, Fiction
Miranda Field, Poetry
Major Jackson, Poetry
Sebastian Matthews, Nonfiction
Susan Steinberg, Fiction

EWF 1 (2002)
Steven Raleigh Byler, Fiction
Meghan Daum, Nonfiction
Julie Otsuka, Fiction
Christine Perrin, Poetry
Joe Wenderoth, Poetry