High School Creative Writing contest seeks entries
Entries are now open for the 10th annual Storytellers of Tomorrow competition, a high school creative writing contest presented by Ringling College of Art and Design. Submissions will be accepted through Jan. 15, 2025, and winners will be announced in February. Led by the Ringling College Creative Writing Program, Storytellers of Tomorrow was created in […]
Creative Writing program to collaborate with Sarasota Libraries on literary event
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Creative Writing program will collaborate again this year with the Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources for the 2024 Off the Page literary celebration, which launched today, Nov. 1. Interim Department Head for Creative Writing Ryan Van Cleave is part of the small team of organizers for the event. […]
Ringling faculty participate in inaugural comic convention
On Saturday, May 11, Creative Writing faculty Rick Dakan, Illustration faculty Gary Barker, and Liberal Arts faculty Glenn Schudel, will host a table at SiestaCon, a brand-new comic book convention in Sarasota. The event will take place at Robarts Arena, where the Class of 2024 Commencement ceremony took place last week. The group will be […]
Ringling College to host fifth-annual Anyone’s Game Conference
Calling all designers, players, and lovers of games! Ringling College of Art and Design will host Anyone’s Game from Friday, Feb. 23-Sunday, Feb. 25 on campus at the Roskamp Exhibition Hall. Anyone’s Game is a tabletop game conference that explores creativity, design, and openness in gaming. Up-and-coming tabletop game developers can test their game designs […]
Ringling College faculty support local literary festival
Ringling College of Art and Design’s Creative Writing program partners with The Hermitage to support Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources in launching Off the Page: A Literary Celebration. The events commence on November 1, with a novel writing workshop at Betty J. Johnson North Sarasota Library. The NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) workshop, led […]
Tackling AI: Ringling’s Task Force explores its uses and ethics
As interests and concerns about Artificial Intelligence flared world-wide this year, Ringling College of Art and Design rose to the challenge—creating an AI Task Force to research the scope of possibilities and potential challenges of using, working with, and learning from the artificial intelligence machines and software with a particular focus on artists, designers, and […]
Creative Writing hosts fourth annual charitable Anyone’s Game Conference
Nearly 100 table top-game enthusiasts, professionals, and Ringling College of Art and Design students attended the fourth annual Anyone’s Game conference hosted by Ringling College’s Creative Writing program from Friday, Feb. 17-Sunday, Feb. 19. Game designers and players traveled as far as South Carolina to attend the events. The weekend featured ten registered game designers […]
Winners announced for Creative Writing’s high school competitions
Twelve high school students from across the globe have been selected as winners of Ringling College’s high school writing competitions. Ringling College of Art and Design’s Creative Writing program announced the winners of two writing competitions, Storytellers of Tomorrow and Anyone’s Game. Both competitions are exclusively for high school students, highlighting the College’s commitment to […]
Creative Writing program’s spring Visiting Writers Forum spans genres with exciting lineup
On Jan. 24, Ringling College will welcome Cooper Levey-Baker to campus to share his experiences as a journalist and novelist and to kick off the spring semester’s Visiting Writers Forum. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to attend the event which will be held from 7-8 pm in the Goldstein Library (room 113) […]
Ringling College adds Game Writing to its annual Creative Writing contests for high-school students
A new, free-to-enter Anyone’s Game contest joins Ringling College’s flagship Storytellers of Tomorrow global creative writing contest. The new contest offers young game writers a chance to win cash prizes and receive industry feedback. “Our Creative Writing majors have the option of taking a concentration in scriptwriting, game writing, and combining word and image, so […]