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.
• 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, participants will revise three of their works to be shared 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, which won the 3rd Gunpowder Press Alta California Chapbook Prize (2024). His book Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging was shortlisted for the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Fred has published works such as Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names, and his writing has been featured in 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.

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