Spring Festival

足彩app哪个是正规的 annual Spring Festival for the MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics program features readings and performances by graduating MFA candidates and a guest writer or artist. MFA candidates showcase selections from their MFA thesis projects.

2026 Spring Festival

Saturday, June 6, 2026| 10:00 AM – 5:00 PM
University of Washington Bothell |  North Creek Events Center (NCEC)
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested

2026 Schedule – Tentative

Spring Festival Archive:

Congratulations to our previous graduating cohorts!

2025

Featured Guest Artist: Cedar Sigo

GRADUATES:

• Noor Alnaaz, Homebound ~
• Mikayla Coleman, It’s Always Something Different in the End
• Geneviève Hicks, our shoulders branch across time
• Bethany Hudson, Everywhere the Light Touches/Alice Through the Looking Glass: Exposing the History of a Well-Behaved Woman
• Nat Mannino, re-
• Elfie Nelson, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Eschatology Database
• Mason Peterson, Carry-On
• Harley Tonelli, [COMMITMENT]

2024

Featured Guest Artist: Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

GRADUATES:

• Elisa Balabram, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Lighter Way
• Mae Barbee, Playgod: Entertainment for Fools
• Pria Dalrymple, Greetings from the Meat Aisle
• Phoenix Kai, Trans Universe 足彩app哪个是正规的ory
• Lindsey Keefer, Propagation
• Farron Knechtel, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Internet Sad Boi Journals
• Melissa M. Knopp, Little Sufferings
• Emma McVeigh, We Might Have Been a River
• Korede Oluwaseyi Oseni, Fractured Personifications
• Felicia Madrid Payomo, T R I N K E T
• Parker Dean Smith, Bird Boy: Evolution at Lightspeed
• Kathryn M. Tran, Fragmentary Mother
• Candace Whitney-Morris, Variable Proximities: calculations of closeness | diagrams of distance
• Gradon Wong, Borrowed Mysteries: Lines Composed on Tantalus

2023

Featured Guest Artist: Robert Farid Karimi

Graduates:

• Alexandria Simmons, Fantasy and Folklore: 足彩app哪个是正规的 Education of Half-Orc Scarlette Urrug
• Alysa Levi-D’Ancona, Mist Manifesto
• Amy Eldridge, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Panther
• Bujinlkham Erdenebaatar, Veiled Street
• Connor James, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Carolyne Project: A Speculative Experiment of Narrative Structure
• Marwah M. Shebl, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Last of Our Days
• Matt Livezey Whitehurst, Anti-Parietal Epithalamus
• Raelynne Woo, Beyond the Curtain

2022

Featured Guest Artist: Selah Saterstrom

Graduates:

• Amy Hirayama, Japanese Blood in the Heart of the Gothic: An Anthology of Gothic Stories from the Japanese Diaspora.
• Meta LeCompte, Life Could Be What It Is Right Now.
• Emily J. Mundy, What Blooms in the Dark.
• Tricia Goetschius Fuentes, Sabotage of the Sunflowers.
• Carson Thomas, Suspension.
• Madison Nikfard, It’s Still You: An Intimate Glimpse into Girlhood and Growth.
• Sky O’Brien, Beginners.
• Maria Delgado Stevens, He Died in the House, A Performance.
• Harrison Lee, PLEASE.

2021

Featured Guest Artist: Diana Khoi Nguyen

Graduates: 

• Yuan Zhuang, Feather Coat.
• Scott Bentley, Bwai \ Remapping.
• Gregory Buck, … S& W8.
• Annika G. Rundberg Bunney, Long Exposure.
• Alec Gabin, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Son.
• Troy Landrum Jr., Dreaming of the Great Migration.
• Chris Ryan Lauer, La Fin du Monde.
• Sanika Nalgirkar, Memories- A Grief Journal.
• Joseph Niduaza, Chimera.
• Rose K. O’Connor, Dutch Boats.
• Julie Voss, A Woman’s Mutation.
• Cliff Watson, 6-foot pine.
• Simon Wolf, Charging.

2020

Featured Guest Artist: Don Mee Choi

Graduates: 

• Eric Acosta, Virgo.
• Marina Burandt, A Tiny Miniature World Where the Proportions Are Slightly Off.
• Nicolas Hauser, Ask the Doctor, He Might Know!.
• Sabina Livadariu, Behind the Curtain.
• Abigail Mandlin, Muses.
• Ashley Noelle, Asymptomatic.
• Matt Porter, A Soft-Boiled Potato.
• Stephanie Segura, Open Door Behind You.
• Nicholas Sweeney, Bed of Leaves.

2019

Featured Guest Artist: Dao Strom

Graduates: 

• Woogee Bae, Mung.
• Aya Bram BonnLuders, North of Nothing.
• Peter Buller, Pterratactile.
• Amy Jones, AOTA: all of the above.
• Reed Lowell, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Summer Years.
• dana middleton, the corridor closes at both ends.
• Virginia Soileau, Versus Jane Doe.

2018

Featured Guest Artist: Suzanne Morrison

Graduates: 

• Jacq Marie Babb, WEYOUI.
• Michael Warren Bagby, Weighing Words.
• Cristina Cortez, Unbound.
• Jessica Hagy, Watermarks.
• Dylan Hogan, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Streets Around Here Tell You Exactly Where You Are.
• Mitchell Kopitch, Din’s Grimoire: Of Games, Gender, Memories, and Self Acceptance.
• Amanda Lybeck, Black Lake.
• Tomm McCarthy, Selections from Dakopeta.
• Subha Nair, To the Moon I Go and Other Stories.
• Katelyn Oppegard, Near Before and After.

2017

Featured Guest Artist: Renee Gladman

Graduates: 

• Corbin Louis, No Way Out But Through.
• Yohandra Cabello, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Anatomical Grip.
• Brent Cox, 足彩app哪个是正规的 River Twice.
• Terrell Fox, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.
• Liezel Moraleja Hackett, Matindi.
• Amanda Hurtado, POST.
• Nicole McCarthy, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Blueprints of Memory. 
• Denise Calvetti Michaels, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Things Downriver.
• Allison Morton, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Missing Hour.
• Joshua Osborn, Mother, Memory, Monotony.
• September Thorlin, A Nursery Rhyme from Another Summer.
• Cora Walker, Hindsight 2050.

2016

Featured Guest Artist: Nathaniel Mackey

Graduates:

• Ben Burland, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Tuck.
• Andrew Carson, Self Taut.
• Ellen Donnelly, Bag of Flesh.
• Tracy Jane Gregory, Helene.
• Andy Hoffman, Black Medicine.
• Anthony Johnson, Beastiarium.
• Greg S. Prichard, Stand-To.
• Dave Sanders, County.
• Carol Anderson Shaw, On My Mind.
• David Shrauger, Images of a Broken World.
• Natalie Singer-Velush, California Calling.
• Jack Wyss, Divine Immolation.
• Kaitlin Young, We/Me.

2015

Featured Guest Artist: Julie Carr

Graduates: 

• Sarah Baker, Water’s Work.
• Breka Blakeslee, Probably It Will Not Be Okay.
• Scott Brown, Private Browsing.
• Laura Burgher, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Researcher’s Book of Her/mes.
• Samuel Iniguez, HisJazzRaptoMe: Hip Hop Vignettes & Quarter Waters.
• Denise Coville, Chairs.
• Lynarra Featherly, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Feminology of Spirit.
• Colin MacArthur, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Boatman of Hades.
• Megan McGinnis, Newness and Nowness.
• Penny Quinteros, Toeing the Line: A Short Story Collection.
• Travis Sharp, Love Poems to the Poet’s Body.
• Todd Simmons, Still We Rise.
• Christine Smith, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Spirit Cabinet.

2014

Featured Guest Artist: CAConrad

Graduates: 

• Ellen Bauer, Ordinary Saints and Monsters.
• Marcus Bingham, Restless.
• John Boucher, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Chirurgeon.
• Susan Marie Brown, Love & Courage: Historic Fiction.
• Chelsea Carter, Read Without Listening.
• Margaret Chiavetta, Untitled Collection of Essays.
• Sandy D’Entremont, 足彩app哪个是正规的 Beauty of Molokai’i.
• Kelle Grace Gaddis, Polishing A Gem On 足彩app哪个是正规的 Surface Of 足彩app哪个是正规的 Sea.
• Aimee Harrison, Autoorthography: identity poetics with poetry.
• Andrew Huskamp, Tales from Here and 足彩app哪个是正规的re.
• Lauren Light, Dieter.
• Jay Loomis, Blade Against the Heart.
• Rev.Tiare L. Mathison, A~Mash~Up: A Poetics of Defiance in the Age of the Internet of Everything.
• Michael Paschall, phrases of the moon.
• Billy Phillips, Fractured Poetics.
• Talena Lachelle Queen, Fourteen.
• J.D. Satlin, A Poetics of Miscommunication.
• Diana Savora, Quivering Tongues.

2013

Featured Guest Artist: Bhanu Kapil

Addidtional Featurings:

Roundtable on “Hybrid Forms, Organisms, Biologies,” with Bhanu Kapil, Jennifer Calkins and Sarah Dowling and Reading & Conversation Workshop with Robert Glück 

Graduates:

Margaret Chiavetta, John Boucher, Sandy D’Entremont, Kat Seidemann, Susan Brown, Kelle Gaddis, Marcus Bingham, Lauren Light, Michael Paschall, Chelsea Carter, Talena Kettrell, Jay Loomis, Tiare Mathison, Ellen Bauer, Andrew Huskamp, Billy Phillips, J.D. Satlin, Aimee Harrison, Diana Savora.