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Michigan-born author Matt Bell shared passages from his novel Appleseed as a part of the English departments reading series on April 5. (Rebeca Mertins Chiodini)

Reading series explores climate change, exploitation

MacKenzie Rogers, Staff Writer April 14, 2023

As a part of its Reading Series program, the creative writing   program hosted Arizona State University creative writing Professor and The New York Times...

Kentucky Shakespeare Company pose outside of their van before the beginning of their Hamlet tour, which started in Murray. (Photo courtesy of @kyshakespeare on Instagram)

Shakespeare festival explores grief through ‘Hamlet’

Ava Chuppe, Senior Writer March 16, 2023

The Department of English and Philosophy held its annual Shakespeare Festival from March 8 to 10,  which brought in K-12 students from the surrounding...

The Notations journal is a student-run digital literary journal that publishes the work of Murray State students. Submissions are due by Feb. 26. (Photo courtesy of @murraystatecreativewriting on Instagram)

Student-run journal opens for literary submissions

MacKenzie Rogers, Staff Writer February 16, 2023

The undergraduate literary journal ”Notations” has returned for the 2023 semester and opened submissions up to all undergraduate students for the first...

English and Creative Writing professor Ray Horton was named College Teacher of the Year. (Photo courtesy of murraystate.edu)

Professor named ‘College Teacher of the Year’

MacKenzie Rogers, Staff Writer February 9, 2023

After only six years of teaching, English professor Ray Horton was awarded the 2023 College Teacher of the Year award from the Kentucky Council of Teachers...

The Brady Cole Scherer Memorial Scholarship honors 21 alumnus Cole Scherer. (Photo courtesy of Scherer family)

Memorial scholarship celebrates student’s legacy

Erinn Finley, Staff Writer December 1, 2022

The parents of a former Murray State student launched a scholarship for English and creative writing students in memory of their son who died in February. Christopher...

Donald Quist spoke about his published work and his in-progress novel in Faculty Hall on Nov. 9. (Photo Courtesy of @murraystateenglish on Instagram)

Author explores racism, identity in Reading Series

MacKenzie Rogers, Staff Writer November 17, 2022

The creative writing program hosted Forward INDIE Bronze Winner and International Book Award Finalist Donald Quist on Nov. 9 as the final Reading Series...

Art from Ray Hortons essay The Praise Band to English Professor Pipeline featured in Post45s collection W(h)ither the Christian Right?

Professor’s early life prompts writing, research

Raleigh Hightower, Lifestyle Editor September 28, 2022

In an exploration of literary analysis and his own personal experiences within a fringe movement of Christianity, Assistant Professor of English Ray Horton...

Kentucky author Silas House speaks in the Curris Center Ballroom as part of the Clinton and Mary Opal Moore Appalachian Writers Residency.

Writers residency returns with Kentucky author

Ava Chuppe, Staff Writer September 21, 2022

Kentucky author Silas House spoke about his new novel in the Curris Center Ballroom as part of the Clinton and Mary Opal Moore Appalachian Writer’s Residency. House,...

Educator, activist and minister, Alicia Crosby, led a discussion on religious trauma in partnership with the Episcopal Campus Ministry on April 4.

Minister addresses trauma, preaches joy

April 7, 2022

Raleigh Hightower Lifestyle Editor [email protected] Offering a space where people can recognize “religious violence” but still experience...

James Han Mattsons 2021 novel, Reprieve, which he worked on during his time at Murray State.

Reading series hosts James Han Mattson

March 10, 2022

Ava Chuppe Staff Writer [email protected] As part of the spring reading series, the creative writing program hosted author and former faculty...

The Notations literary journal is currently taking submissions from undergraduate English majors and minors. Submissions are due by Sunday, Feb. 20.

Student-run journal invites literary submissions

February 17, 2022

Dionte Berry Editor-in-Chief [email protected] The student editors behind “Notations” a yearly digital literary magazine are accepting...

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