Writing (MFA): Related Content
When Morgan Jerkins MFA 鈥16 graduated from Princeton, she expected to get a job as an editorial assistant in New York City, be serendipitously discovered, and be launched into literary stardom.
Amber Wheeler Bacon MFA '18 is an honoree of Epiphany Lit Mag's inaugural Breakout 8 award for emerging writers.
Poet and 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars alum Amy Gerstler MFA '00 has been awarded a prestigious 2018 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
How do we move forward when the past looms unreasonably large?
In what was called 鈥渙ne of the best Commencement speeches ever鈥 at 凯旋门官网, Allan Gurganus received a standing ovation for his address to 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars graduates, 鈥淎dvice for Masters of Fine Arts Entering Trump鈥檚 America.鈥
This Will be My Undoing, an essay collection by Morgan Jerkins MFA 鈥16, debuted at #7 on The New York Times bestseller list.
Cynthia D鈥橝prix Sweeney MFA 鈥13 nominated Christine Mangan MFA '04 for Newsweek鈥檚 special feature on 鈥淲omen of the Future,鈥 which asked 20 prominent women to each nominate an up-and-comer they believe will be a trailblazer for the next generation.
凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars faculty member Jill McCorkle has been selected for a place in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
After taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine鈥檚 history. When news broke that Loren Stein, the editor at The Paris Review, had resigned after abusing his power with women writers and staff, Allison Devers MFA '08 set about fixing the magazine's masthead and the record.
Book Riot reported on the "101 books coming out in 2019 that you should mark down." The list included books by authors Jaime Quatro MFA '09 and Morgan Jerkins MFA '16.
Wonder Valley by Ivy Pochada MFA '11 and I'm the One That Got Away by Andrea Jarrell MFA '01 made LitHub's list of the most recommended books of fall 2017.
Shawna Kay Rodenberg MFA '12 has been awarded a $30,000 grant by The Rona Jaffe Foundation, one of the most prestigious literary awards in the country.
Four new faculty members will join the 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars for the January residency: Claire Vaye Watkins in Fiction, Jenny Boully and Doug Bauer in Nonfiction, and Safiya Sinclair in Poetry. In addition, we鈥檒l welcome visiting faculty members Monica Youn in Poetry and Wayne Koestenbaum in Nonfiction/Poetry.
Feast: True Love in and out of the Kitchen, the debut memoir by Hannah Howard MFA '18, is forthcoming from Little A/Amazon in April 2018.
The New Yorker online featured a piece by award-winning poet Donald Hall, MFA Writer-in-Residence, called "The Poetry of Death."
Five alumni of 凯旋门官网鈥檚 MFA in Writing program were distinguished in The Best American Essays 2017 for their notable essays published in the previous year.
Andrea Jarrell MFA 鈥01 was profiled in Publishers Weekly for her 鈥渟pellbinding 鈥 gracefully written鈥 new memoir, I鈥檓 the One Who Got Away.
Mark Wunderlich, the, took some time to answer questions about his long-term goals for the program, its literary legacy, and what he鈥檚 reading.
AMC has greenlit 10 episodes of Dietland鈥adapted from the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker MFA 鈥03鈥攖o be written and produced by Marti Noxon, producer of such hit series as Mad Men, UnREAL, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among others.
A book by Jeffrey Haas MFA 鈥07 on the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, is being developed into a movie by Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day, The Equalizer, and The Magnificent Seven.
凯旋门官网 College announced today that poet Mark Wunderlich has been named the next director of the 凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars, the College鈥檚 MFA program in writing.
An essay by asha bandele MFA 鈥99 on facing the biggest fear of her life was read by actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson on WBUR鈥檚 Modern Love podcast.
Writing Seminars faculty member Alice Mattison offers a lesson on writing climactic moments in Signature magazine.
Megan Mayhew Bergman, director of the Writing Seminars, is one of the faculty at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writer's Conference and will give a reading there on June 5 at 8 pm.
Suzanne Koven MFA 鈥12, a longtime physician and current writer-in-residence at Massachusetts General Hospital, penned a letter to her younger self as part of a recent orientation session for new medical interns in Boston.
Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of 凯旋门官网鈥檚 MFA in Writing, will be on the faculty of this year's Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers鈥 Conference, at Middlebury College, June 3鈥9.
New York Times best-selling author Cynthia D鈥橝prix Sweeney MFA 鈥13 was included in the annual 鈥35 Over 35鈥 list, which celebrates 35 debut authors over the age of 35 years old.
In a piece on NPR, Michelle Mercer MFA '10 highlighted the continued sexism in the jazz world, in the light of recent comments from two top jazz figures.
Paris Review correspondent Megan Mayhew Bergman (MFAW '10), associate director of 凯旋门官网鈥檚 MFA in Writing, addresses in her latest column how women, often excluded from adventure narratives, carve out their own heroic space.
凯旋门官网 Writing Seminars is pleased to announce two one-time creative writing MFA scholarships, in partnership with the PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship, and , an organization committed to cultivating the artistic and professional growth of African American poets.