MASTER OF FINE ARTS IN CREATIVE WRITING
Spring 2010
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We are pleased to welcome visiting writer Jennifer Haigh for the Spring 2010 semester. Ms. Haigh is the author of the New York Times bestseller Baker Towers, winner of the 2006 PEN/L. L. Winship Award for outstanding book by a New England author; Mrs. Kimble, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction and was a finalist for the Book Sense Book of the Year; and most recently, The Condition (2008). Her fiction has appeared in Granta, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, and elsewhere. Jennifer Haigh will be teaching two courses, (ENGL682) Advanced Fiction Workshop and (CW697) Special Topics in Creative Writing: Short Story Revision Workshop. Jennifer Haigh will also participate in our Global Voices Reading Series, Date and Time TBD.
Spring 2010 GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES Schedule
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 2:00pm in the Bookstore: Writer Michael Greenberg will read from his latest work Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life (2009). A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement of London. He has also contributed many critical essays and cover stories to the TLS. Greenberg’s fiction and essays have appeared in such varied places as The New York Review of Books, O, The Oprah Magazine, Bomb, The Village Voice, the New York Times, and the Boston Review. Greenberg’s memoir, Hurry Down Sunshine, about his teenage daughter’s sudden psychotic break, was published by Other Press in 2008, and has been sold in seventeen countries around the world.
© Marion Ettlinger
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 at 4:00pm in the Bookstore: Poet Major Jackson will be on campus to read from his work. Major Jackson is the author of two collections of poetry: Hoops (Norton: 2006) and Leaving Saturn (University of Georgia: 2002), winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize and finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Hoops was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award in the category of Outstanding Literature - Poetry. His third volume of poetry Holding Company is forthcoming from W.W. Norton. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers' Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. He served as a creative arts fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and as the Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence at University of Massachusetts-Lowell. Major Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at University of Vermont and a core faculty member of the Bennington Writing Seminars. He serves as the Poetry Editor of the Harvard Review.
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Monday, April 26, 2010 at 12:00pm in the Bookstore: Writer Jill McCorkle will be on campus to read from her latest short story collection, Going Away Shoes (2009). Jill has written five novels and four collections of short stories. Her novels include Ferris Beach (2009 reprint), July 7th (1992), Tending to Virginia (1997), The Cheer Leader (2003) and Carolina Moon (1997) and her short story collections include Going Away Shoes (2009), Creatures of Habit (2001), Crash Diet (1997), and Final Vinyl Days (1998). Five of her eight books have been named New York Times notable books. Jill McCorkle is a professor in the MFA in Creative Writing program at NC State and she was one of the original core faculty members of the Bennington College MFA program and is a frequent instructor at the Sewanee Summer Writers Program. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Ploughshares, Oxford American, Southern Review and Bomb Magazine, among others. Two of her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories and several have been collected in New Stories from the South. Her story, "Intervention," is in the most recent edition of the Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. McCorkle has received the New England Book Award, The John Dos Passos Prize for Excellence in Literature and the North Carolina Award for Literature.
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Date and Time TBD: Poet Jericho Brown will be on campus to read from his work and to present the Academy of American Poets Prize. Jericho Brown worked as the speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. His poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, jubilat, New England Review, Oxford American, and several other journals and anthologies. His first book, PLEASE (New Issues), won the 2009 American Book Award.
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