center for the literary arts
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Open Field: 50 years of creativity
Open Field, Cornell College’s annual literary magazine was first published half a century ago, in 1968. Fifty years later, the publication still brings joy to the students involved.
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Alumni at a Glance: Elizabeth Evans ’75
After graduating from Cornell, Elizabeth Evans ’75 started graduate school at the University of Iowa, where she received her masters of fine arts (M.F.A.) from the Writers Workshop. Today, she’s a fiction writer who has published six books: “As Good As Dead,” “Rowing in Eden,” “Carter Clay,” “The Blue Hour,” “Suicide’s Girlfriend,” and “Locomotion.”
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Alumni at a Glance: Dan Kellams ’58
Biographer, memoirist, freelance writer and editor, public relations consultant, and Army information specialist—what do all these honorific titles have in common? You can assign every last one of them to an accomplished Cornell College graduate of the Class of 1958, Dan Kellams.
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9 new faculty to teach at Cornell College
A new academic year begins today at Cornell College, and the college welcomes nine new faculty members in the arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
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Distinguished Visiting Writers named for 2018–19
Cornell College’s Distinguished Visiting Writers for 2018–2019 are podcast writer, poet, journalist, and photographer Kathleen Maris Paltrineri and novelist and essayist Mylène Dressler.
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Fall 2017 Visiting Writers Series
In fall 2017 Cornell College’s Center for the Literary Arts is hosting authors Dilman Dila, Esther Dischereit, and Rebecca Entel; Essayist Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel; poet D.A. Powell; and the one-act play “Elizabeth I—In Her Own Words.”
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Distinguished Visiting Writers named for 2016-17
The Cornell College Center for the Literary Arts announces two Distinguished Visiting Writers for 2016-2017: screenwriter Brian Sloan and live lit performer Kate Harding.
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$500,000 gift endows writing position
A 1960s Cornell College alumnus has given the college $500,000 to permanently endow the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellowship.
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Rubinstein named Dana Fellow
Helen Rubinstein has been named the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellow for 2015-16.
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Michelson finds intersection of art and literature
A course using Cornell College’s 19th-century letterpress inspired junior Laura Michelson to discover her love of book arts.
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Best-selling novelist reading Feb. 19
Best-selling novelist Lauren Groff will give a reading at the Van Etten-Lacey House at 7:30 p.m. on Feb. 19.
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Entel was writer-in-residence in Lithuania
Rebecca Entel was a writer-in-residence at the Summer Literary Seminars program in Vilnius, Lithuania, from July 13-26.
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McAuliffe chosen as Dana Fellow
Shena McAuliffe has accepted the Robert P. Dana Emerging Writer Fellowship with Cornell College’s Center for the Literary Arts.
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The Urgency of Narrative with Nathan Schneider
Literary journalist Nathan Schneider discussed the importance of storytelling in our encounter with the world and world-tested advice about how to survive as a young writer on April 25.
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Literary journalist speaking at Cornell College
Literary journalist Nathan Schneider will speak at 4 p.m. on Friday, April 25 in the Van Etten-Lacey House about the importance of storytelling in our encounter with the world and give world-tested advice about how to survive as a young writer.
Open Field: 50 years of creativity 
Alumni at a Glance: Elizabeth Evans ’75 
Alumni at a Glance: Dan Kellams ’58 
9 new faculty to teach at Cornell College 
Distinguished Visiting Writers named for 2018–19 
Fall 2017 Visiting Writers Series 
Distinguished Visiting Writers named for 2016-17 
$500,000 gift endows writing position 
Rubinstein named Dana Fellow 
Michelson finds intersection of art and literature 
McAuliffe chosen as Dana Fellow 
Literary journalist speaking at Cornell College