Potter College News

Mar 6th, 2026

The Goldenrod Poetry Festival is an annual Spring event held by the WKU English Department to highlight student work and connect with other writers. The festival will be held Monday, April 1st, and submissions are due Tuesday, March 10.

Mar 2nd, 2026

Feb 19th, 2026

Dec 4th, 2025

The Ted Hovet Conference reveals just how much brilliance is unfolding inside WKU’s English classrooms. The Ted Hovet Conference convenes each fall to showcase undergraduate essays in research, linguistics, literary analysis, and related fields.

Nov 17th, 2025

Oct 23rd, 2025

Dr. Sarah McFarland, an author, professor, and avid ecocritic, explores this question in her upcoming presentation at WKU, highlighting her book Ecocollapse Fiction and Cultures of Human Extinction.

Oct 16th, 2025

The Gender & Women’s Studies Program will host their annual Genderations Luncheon on Friday, October 24, in HCIC 1011.

Oct 10th, 2025

The WKU English Department will celebrate the 10 finalists of the 29th annual Mary Ellen and Jim Wayne Miller Celebration of Writing on October 15 at 6:00 pm at the Western Kentucky University Alumni Center.

Apr 23rd, 2025

Poet Heather Neidlinger, a teaching graduate assistant and second-year student in WKU’s three year Master of Fine Arts (MFA) Creative Writing program, has won the highly-competitive Intro Journal Award.

Apr 15th, 2025

Students from WKU’s Creative Writing Graduate program traveled to Los Angeles, California on March 26th to attend the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference (AWP).