About the NWS

Since it began in the fall of 1999, the UMaine New Writing Series has hosted more than a hundred poetry and fiction readings at the University of Maine’s flagship campus in Orono.

Conceived as an instrument for investigating the whole spectrum of possibilities for contemporary work in poetry, prose, translation, and the new media, the NWS puts an emphasis on innovative, adventurous, and/or unduly neglected writing.

The NWS is sponsored by the English Department of the University of Maine with assistance from the National Poetry Foundation and financial support from the Lloyd H. Elliott fund and grants from the UMaine Cultural Affairs Committee.

A list of all NWS events to date can be viewed here. A descriptive catalog of archival materials associated with previous NWS events is under construction here.