Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Leslie C. Youngblood! Forever This Summer launches today from Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. “A glorious, big-hearted, and joyful novel! Forever This Summer celebrates three talented girls who discover, with love and empathy, they can triumph, heal, and inspire one another as… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Maria Hummel! Lesson in Red launches today from Counterpoint Press. “Astute insights into the shadow side of the art world, Hummel exposes the toxic competition at a top art school . . . The cutthroat arts milieu, precisely and… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Jennifer Militello! The Pact launches today from Tupelo Press. “What a beautiful book of songs, pacts, spells, love poems, chants, pledges, odes! Such lyric abandon here, and also such deep lyric knowlede. Knowlede of what? you might ask. Of how… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Scott Owens! Sky Full of Stars and Dreaming is now available from Red Hawk Publications.
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Ösel Plante! Waveland is now available from Black Lawrence Press. Poetry. The word ‘lush’ doesn’t even begin to describe these poems. And boy, do we need lushness, especially these days. The world empties us out, and only poetry can… Continue reading…
Fiction alumna and former Greensboro Review fiction editor Rose Himber Howse has been awarded a prestigious Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University. Many congratulations and best wishes from Greensboro, Rose! Read an interview from the GR archives with Rose here. Rose Himber Howse is a queer writer from North Carolina… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Leigh Anne Couch! Every Lash, winner of the Vassar Miller Prize for Poetry, launches today from the University of North Texas Press.
Ruth Dickey, alumna of our MFA Writing Program in poetry, has been named the new Executive Director of the National Book Foundation. Congratulations from all of us at UNCG! “My whole career has been working at the intersection of two questions: how do we build just, vibrant communities, and how… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Cathy Carr! 365 Days to Alaska launches today from Amulet Books. “Cathy Carr’s debut is a poignant novel about family and truth, particularly the uncomfortable truths between fathers and daughters, told in a voice full of insight, love, and humor. She’s… Continue reading…
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Kat Meads! Dear DeeDee launches today from Regal House Publishing. “The depth of field Meads painstakingly develops in Dear DeeDee creates a kind of Geertzian modality, a thick description of the valences of time, place, mood—all of which make it a… Continue reading…
