UMSL Creative Writing MFA Program

Friday July 19 6:00 p.m. Left Bank!

Minsoo Kang - The Melancholy of Untold History Left Bank Books presents St. Louis novelist and historian Minsoo Kang

Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé: the 21-year-old British student with a million-dollar book deal Author says she was ‘just a broke student writing to make myself some fictional friends’ in her debut Ace of Spades, about two black students navigating racism at an elite school

We are thrilled to count Ron Austin as one of our own! That was true yesterday, and it's true today, when we learned that his novel-in-stories, Avery C**t is a Snake, a Thief, a Liar, won gold in the 2019 Foreword INDIES award for fiction! Congratulations, Ron!

2019 Foreword INDIES Winners in General (Adult Fiction) These are the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the cherries on top a metaphorical ice cream sundae of indie books. The General winners of the 2019 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards.