Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Carole Boston Weatherford! A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington launches today from Macmillan Children’s School & Library.
Creative Writing Professor Holly Goddard Jones has an essay in the latest issue of The Adroit Journal. Be sure to check it out! #UNCGEnglish Issue Forty-Three: How I Learned to Stop Worrying (As Much) and Love Exposition
What is it about “the strange” that allows us, readers and writers alike, to access some deeper human truth? How does strangeness operate on us—as we read it, as we write it, as we experience it? Some variation of this question was posed by one of my former professors, and… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Corrie Lynn White! Gold Hill Family Audio launches today from Southeast Missouri State University Press.
I struggled over the summer to get writing. I realize I’m not supposed to say I took a break in my writing regimen, especially before I started an MFA program, but after a year of struggling with writing, community, and my identity, I found myself resisting my usual practices and… Continue reading…
College hunger is a hidden problem. According to Spartan Open Pantry, 34.9% of UNCG students are food insecure, and 50% of UNCG students worry about paying their basic bills, and around the holidays these insecurities are multiplied. The English Department is partnering with the other Departments in MHRA to host a food drive that… Continue reading…
When I committed to attending UNCG for graduate school, I suddenly realized the amount of changes I had just agreed to. Like most of my colleagues, I was packing up and leaving the life I had made—my friends, my routines, my job—behind me in order to have two years where… Continue reading…
Dr. Keith Cushman is an emeritus faculty member who focuses on 20th Century British Literature.Dr. Cushman is an avid supporter of Greensboro Opera. He was awarded the 1990-91 Research Excellence Award. 1. What is your favorite time of day? Morning. 2. What was the best experience you had as… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Carole Boston Weatherford! Me and the Family Tree launches today from Sourcebooks.
In recent months, film festival audiences have seen renowned author and professor emeritus Fred Chappell on the big screen. To decades of former students, he’s already larger than life. Ruth Dickey ’04 MFA, a former student of his and now executive director of the National Book Foundation, introduced Chappell and the film at its early screening at the Greensboro Bound festival. “Fred Chappell: I Am One of You Forever,” produced by UNCG Media Studies professor Michael Frierson and financed in part by Light the Way campaign gifts, will be shown in early November on PBS NC statewide.
