We had an amazing time at the 2025 Delta Mouth Festival, ran and organized by our very own MFA students! Can't wait to see our festival continue to flourish and create community within and outside of Baton Rouge, LA!

LSU Creative Writing presents their Visiting Writers Series, featuring poet Natalie Shapero! Join us on April 22nd at 7pm in the French House Saloon to hear her amazing work!

Help us in congratulating one of our graduating MFAs! Kayla Jackson is an interdisciplinary artist from New Orleans. She earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Tulane in 2018 and is now set to graduate from Louisiana State University. Congratulations, Kayla!

Current LSU MFA Rose Marie Torres published her flash piece, "I like when my ass hangs out of my shorts" with The Good Life Review last week! She also attended the 2025 Tin House Workshop for creative nonfiction, working with Lilly Dancyger this past winter. Congratulations Rose!

GRADUATING STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sunny Rosen is from Newark, Delaware. Her work has appeared in The Chicago Review and Taco Bell Quarterly, among other outlets. For her thesis, she completed a novel entitled Ocean Bluffs. We are so lucky to know her!

GRADUATING STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Halley McArn is an MFA candidate at Louisiana State University with a focus on prose writing. She is the current editorial assistant for The Southern Review and has worked as an editor for New Delta Review and Speculative Nonfiction. Huge congrats!!

GRADUATING STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: A native of South Texas, Rose Marie Torres has focused on creative nonfiction and screenwriting. She received support from Tin House and appears in The Good Life Review, Hothouse, and more. In her free time, Rose is a karaoke enthusiast.. Congrats!

🎉 We're thrilled to celebrate the release of MFA alumna Amy Rossi's debut novel! 🎉 Published by HarperCollins, THE COVER GIRL is a brilliant rock and roll reckoning for the metoo era. Enormous congrats, Amy, from your fans in Baton Rouge! 🐯

Lights.. camera.. MoMA?! Big shoutout to Professor Zack Godshall on the inclusion of his documentary short THE BOATMAN (2017) in the film series WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN at MoMA The Museum of Modern Art ! Catch a screening of THE BOATMAN today (!) at 4 PM or on Sunday, August 31, at 1 PM.

Aaaand we're back! 💋 Join The Underpass Reading Series and Delta Mouth for a kickoff reading and fundraiser at the Radio Bar on September 7th at 2 PM.

The inimitable poet Keetje Kuipers kicks off this semester's visiting writers series! Join us at Hill Memorial Library on September 11 for a reading that's sure to go down in the history books 📖 🐯

What’s that? You didn’t hear?! 📣 THREE (!) of our MFA-affiliated writers received Tin House Writing Workshop Scholarships this summer! 🌟 Current MFA second-years Sirong Li and Carolina Murriel 🌟 MFA alum an chang joon ('23) Beyond proud of these writers 💐

Third-year MFA student Brett Hymel has found homes for two new stories! "Self Care" is available NOW as an online special feature in The Cincinnati Review, while "Four Teachers Stapled Together" will appear in issue 52.1 of Black Warrior Review. Big congrats, Mr. Hymel! 🏆

First Underpass of the semester ✅ ✅ ✅ First-years Finnegan Bly and Naomi Claudette Ortiz and second-year Carolina Murriel brought the house down last night! Enormous thanks to everyone who came out to support these fabulous writers and to the lovely Brickyard for hosting 🍾

Major congrats to Creative Writing Professor Joshua Wheeler, whose kaleidoscopic novel THE HIGH HEAVEN from Graywolf Press launches in just two weeks! ☄️ Out October 7, BUT available for pre-order now! 🌌 🌑

Community isn’t a buzzword to us! Like true Louisianans, our grad students never miss a chance to celebrate and connect. Here are a few of our writers at a recent back-to-school shindig 🪩 Itching to learn more? Check out our Linktree above 🐊

LSU English alumna Jordan LaHaye Fontenot's true crime memoir has reached national bestseller status! 🔍📚 HOME OF THE HAPPY: A MURDER ON THE CAJUN PRAIRIE explores the devastating murder of Fontenot’s great-grandfather and the lasting effects it had on her family and hometown.

Another wildly successful Underpass for the history books!! 📚 First-years Bree Atkins and Mary Thames read alongside second-year Manuela Silvestre Martinez at the always lovely Brickyard South. We'll see you in November for the final Underpass reading of the semester! 🔮