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Thursday April 10, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
We are thrilled to present one of our most longstanding festival events, our Regional MFA Reading! This event features an exciting lineup of readers from five Creative Writing Master of Fine Arts programs across the Northwest. Each school has sent us one MFA candidate to read their work, and students will be introduced by a creative writing faculty member. We are excited to get to know students and faculty members from these programs—this year we have Trey Hayden from Boise State, Trixie Zwolfer from University of Idaho, Ellison Rose from Oregon State University, Western Colorado University's Rebecca Williams, and of course, Abby Shaffer from our own Eastern Washington University represented. We hope you’ll join us to hear fiction, nonfiction, and poetry readings from our region’s rising talents!

*This event is virtual and will premiere on our YouTube Channel at the time listed above. Here is the direct link!

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Authors
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Ellison Rose

Ellison Rose is an MFA candidate in creative nonfiction at Oregon State University, where they are currently writing about ethnicity, inheritance, intergenerational trauma, and the words we use to describe ourselves. Their work as both a nonfiction writer and poet will always be heavily... Read More →
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Trey Hayden

Trey Hayden is a third-year poetry student in Boise State University’s MFA program. Born and raised in Kentucky, he received a BA in economics from Rhodes College (Memphis) before moving to Idaho. He’s currently working on his thesis, which blends together poems about classical... Read More →
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Abby Shaffer

Abby Shaffer is a MFA student at Eastern Washington University who writes poetry about the intersection between the body and the world; between emplacement and displacement; between illness and folklore. She loves talking with friends, making art, singing, and spending time with... Read More →
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Rebecca E. Williams

Rebecca E. Williams is a current MFA student in Western Colorado University's Nature Writing Program. She works in paint, poetry, lyrical prose, and occasionally a little new journalism. Her focus is on ecopoetics and especially the necropastoral as a lens to view the connections... Read More →
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Trixie Zwolfer

Trixie Zwolfer is a third-year fiction student at the University of Idaho. Her stories frequently draw from fairy tale tradition, centering around strange forests, bodily transformation, and creatures with sharp teeth. Her work has appeared in Stoneboat Literary Review and Corvid... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2025 12:30pm - 1:30pm PDT
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