Worldbuilding with Ursula Le Guin

The 50th anniversary of The Dispossessed , the utopian novel by Ursula Le Guin, brought faculty and students together to share the importance of public humanities.

How she knew Beloit was the right place

As a prospective student, Abbie Barsness’23 says Beloit stood out for the strength of its creative writing program and the student-edited Beloit Fiction Journal . It also just felt right from the moment she walked onto campus.

A conversation with Mackey Chair Janisse Ray

Students and faculty filled the rows of chairs facing the stage in Moore Lounge on Thursday, February 20 for the Mackey keynote reading. We listened attentively as this year’s Mackey Chair, Janisse Ray, read a piece she wrote during her time at Beloit.

Braving “Ulysses”

Bucket-list books like James Joyce’s Ulysses can be intimidating to read alone. English professor Shawn Gillen ’s “Ulysses at 100” course provides an alternative — a book club structure that aims to improve student engagement and enjoyment.

Beloit Fiction Journal behind the scenes

Beloit College has a rich history of producing literary publications , from Blue Moon to Pocket Lint , but only the annual Beloit Fiction Journal features professional works of fiction submitted by writers across the country and edited by Beloit students. Through creative writing courses, students consider more than 1,000…

Disrupting the binary in medieval lit

In Joseph Derosier ’s “Trans Before Trans” course this spring, students contemplate what it meant to perform gender in the Middle Ages and how queer experiences might be identified in medieval literature.  

New creative writing club creates community

Two years of Covid prevented creative writers on campus from coming together as a group outside the classroom. India David’25 wanted to fix that, so she gathered her friends and made a (well-attended) new club .  

“There’s just so many people on this campus who love to interact and write stories,” …