Congratulations to ReeAnn Hyde, aka M. R. Hyde, for taking home two well-earned ribbons for her incredible art at the Colorado State Fair Fine Arts Show. She said she was honored to participate alongside many talented artists, including her 87-year-old mother! ReeAnn’s work is joyful, a celebration of the natural world; it’s no wonder it … More M.R. Hyde: Colorado State Fair and September Art Shows
ReeAnn Hyde was thrilled to have her artwork accepted for this year’s Art Aloud and have her work hung at Academy Art and Frame Company and Sand Creek Library. She also read some new poems she wrote for this to accompany my artwork. That was a fun challenge and it was very rewarding to be … More Exhibit at Art Aloud- ReeAnn Hyde
The Studio West black box theater was full on the evening of March 23, making the Spring Reading featuring Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius the most widely attended literary reading at PPSC in recent history. Nearby Universe founder and facilitator and English faculty member Brook Bhagat organized and MCed the event. “I want to help my … More Student/Faculty/Nearby Universe Spring Reading featuring Poet Laureate Ashley Cornelius packs the house
A write-in, if you haven’t heard of it, is an event where writers get together, talk about their work and ideas for a small amount of time, and write near each other for a large amount of time. It’s basically parallel play for grown-ups, and it’s just as much fun 🙂 After two years of … More The Nearby Universe celebrates its five-year anniversary at the winter write-in
Five years ago this month, I showed up half an hour early and unlocked room A-354 at Centennial, which was known at the time as Cathy Henrich’s lit room. I didn’t know what I was doing or if anyone would come. I had never even been in a writer’s group, much less started one. There … More Happy birthday to us! The Nearby Universe turns five
Candace R. Craig’s creative nonfiction, “Eerie Lake,” was nominated for Best of the Net by the editorial staff of the Great Lakes Review, where the story was recently published. “Eerie Lake” was workshopped twice in The Nearby Universe. In “Eerie Lake,” a fascination with mythological monsters and the tragic drowning of a young classmate unleashes a true horror story about the … More Candace Craig nominated for Best of the Net
Brook Bhagat is proud to share her publication as a featured author in the gorgeous fall issue of The Dribble Drabble Review! Two 50-word prose poems and two 100-word ones were published here today; three of the four are adapted from pieces in her poetry collection, Only Flying. TDDR has been recognized by the Communicator … More Featured Author: The Dribble Drabble Review
One of Brook Bhagat’s favorite things about the Nearby Universe is the deadlines! She composes snippets of poetry or prose for the email meeting invitations to PPSC employees and is often able to revise and publish these pieces elsewhere. Her flash fiction/prose poetry “August Drops” began like this, at the top of the August email. … More “August Drops” published on A Story in 100 Words
Brook Bhagat’s narrative poem, “The Homes of Birds,” was a first-round winner in the 2022 Colorado Hearts and Minds Poetry Contest, a statewide competition that featured entries from 46 different counties. The poem, originally published in 2020 in the anthology A Walk with Nature, also won the 2020 nature writing contest at A Story in … More Another Accolade for “The Homes of Birds”
Brook Bhagat is excited to share that she will be reading and signing Only Flying, a collection of surreal poetry and flash fiction, at Barnes & Noble in Colorado Springs on Friday, July 29 from 5-7 pm.
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