Creativity Workshop with Mackey Chair Lynda Barry

Cartoonist, author and creative genius Lynda Barry leads a creativity workshop for faculty and staff.

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) newclub.

“There’s just so many people on this campus who love to interact and write stories,” says India. “Since Covid, people have learned to live by themselves and in their own world. We had to get that going again.”

2023 Mackey Chair Lynda Barry Keynote

Please join the English Department as we enjoy a reading by the 2023 Mackey Chair, Lynda Barry.

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-editedBeloit Fiction Journal. It also just felt right from the moment she walked onto campus.

Three Beloiters join local RENT production

音乐wi简斯维尔导演给所爱的人th all-LGBTQ+ actors — including three of Beloit’s own — for the first time and received video messages of support from two original cast members. “This is the exact time you should be doing a show like this,” they said. “You’re part of theRENTfamily now.”

Beloit Professor Chris Fink forages like a bear

Professor Chris Fink and editor of the Beloit Fiction Journal researches and compares the foraging habits of bears to humans during his summer adventures in the northern Minnesota woods. Read and listen to Chris Fink’s Northern Public Radio piece.

Addressing a health crisis in a war zone

Adam Keehn’80 and his team at Americares are bringing much-needed medicines and medical supplies to people in Ukraine.

Cartoonist Lynda Barry is 2023’s Mackey Chair in Creative Writing

Graphic novelist and educator Lynda Barry has been named 2023’sMackey Chair. The 2019 MacArthur Fellow researching the role of words and pictures in encouraging creative output in young children will teach the Mackey Workshop half-semester course for students in the spring of 2023, as well as host a creativity workshop with faculty and staff. Her much-anticipated reading is slated for February.

Beloit Fiction Journal behind the scenes

Beloit College has a rich history of producingliterary publications, fromBlue MoontoPocket Lint, but only the annualBeloit Fiction Journalfeatures professional works of fiction submitted by writers across the country and edited by Beloit students. Throughcreative writingcourses, students consider more than 1,000 submissions, choose the journal’s cover, design the pages, and hold a celebratory reading on campus each spring.

Teaching on a Native American Reservation

Alumni Delanie McMahon ’18 graduated from Beloit college on “a rainy day in 2018,” McMahon said in an interview. While at Beloit, she obtained two majors; Education and Youth Studies and English. She now teaches at Menominee Indian High School, a school on a reservation in Wisconsin.