Visiting Artist Seminar (UH 3200)

The Spring 2025 Visiting Artist’s Seminar – Immense Cosmologies: Spring 2025 Visiting Artist’s Seminar: Immense Cosmologies – Writing Brief Short Forms

• Enrollment is limited to 15 students. Permission from the Department is required to enroll. This seminar ensures personalized attention.
• Permit Request Form : (You must log in using your Pipeline username and password.)

Class Dates (Held in HONR 118):

• Thursday, February 13, 2025: 4:30-7:30 p.m. (CST)
• Thursday, February 20, 2025: 4:30-7:30 p.m. (CST)
• Thursday, February 27, 2025: 4:30-7:30 p.m. (CST)
• Thursday, March 6, 2025: 4:30-7:30 p.m. (CST)
• Thursday, March 20, 2025: 4:30-7:30 p.m. (CST)

Students will read, write, and experiment with various short forms during this Honors Visiting Artist’s Seminar. By the end of the seminar on short forms, participants will revise three of their works. They will then share them at a special creative writing showcase reception.

About the Visiting Artist: Fred Arroyo

Fred Arroyo, associate professor of English at MTSU, is an accomplished writer and the author of Alba and Other Songs. This book won the 3rd Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize (2024). The William Saroyan International Prize for Writing shortlisted his book Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging. Fred has published works such as Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names. Anthologies like Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Natural World have featured his writing, adding to his contributions to the literary seminar circuit.

He is currently working on The Book of Manuels, a collection of short fiction. Additionally, he is working on Emigrant Creek and Other Songs, a poetry collection. At MTSU, Fred teaches creative writing and literature courses. He offers students insight into the world of contemporary fiction and literary craft.