Creative Writing Reading Series
The Creative Writing Program at Texas Tech hosts an annual reading series with performances given by five to ten visiting, faculty, and student writers. We will be hosting some in-person events this year, but as this COVID-19 pandemic endures, we will also be offering many virtual events and live-streaming our face-to-face events. It's important that writers combat the isolation we're all experiencing right now. Stay connected with other artists by attending one of our events—in-person or online. Per CDC recommendations, masks are encouraged for in-person events.
If you are going to give a virtual reading, or would like to suggest one to list on this page, please email Marcus Burke (marcus.burke@ttu.edu).
Fall 2025 Reading Series
October 10
LHUCA Literary Series featuring Ama Codjoe
Location: Onsite at LHUCA (511 Avenue K) in the Firehouse Theatre at 7:00 PM
Once per semester, the LHUCA Literary Series features a visiting writer, a TTU graduate writer, and undergraduate writer. Light refreshments will be provided. Our visiting writer for fall 2025 is Ama Codjoe.
Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall foundations as well as from Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Hawthornden Literary Retreat, Willapa Bay AiR, MacDowell, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. Among other honors, Codjoe has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, the New York State Council/New York Foundation of the Arts, and the Jerome Foundation. In 2023, Codjoe was appointed as the second Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum. She is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award and a recipient of a 2024 Arts and Letters Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Spring 2026 Reading Series (TBA)
Department of English
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Address
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