Congrats and happy pub day to Holly Goddard Jones, fiction faculty member in our MFA Writing Program! Antipodes comes out today from the University of Iowa Press. A new collection of short stories about living in “an era of unknowability, of persistent strangeness,” Antipodes is Holly Goddard Jones’ fourth book…. Continue reading…
We’re so pleased that the new issue of The Greensboro Review, #106, is now out in the world! And what better way to launch the fall issue than with features on both Poetry Daily and Verse Daily—including MFA alum Wesley Sexton’s “On Seeing a Bee Drink His Nectar” (winner of… Continue reading…
It’s the first day of summer! This has been a great year so far for Greensboro faculty and alums, so be sure to check out the University Communications reading recommendations among books published in 2019: https://newsandfeatures.uncg.edu/summer-reading-books-faculty-alumni/
Doua Thao, a graduate of the Greensboro MFA and former editor of The Greensboro Review, has received the 2019 O. Henry prize for short fiction in recognition of “Flowers for America” (published in Fiction). Congratulations to Doua for this great honor! https://lithub.com/announcing-the-100th-annual-o-henry-prize/
Joan Curbow’s Booklist starred review of Prairie Fever, coming May 2019 from Algonquin Books, applauds Parker’s new work as a “chimerical slipstream of a novel.” https://www.workman.com/products/prairie-fever
Author Jamey Bradbury, whose debut novel The Wild Inside was released last month by William Morrow, talks about her experience in Greensboro: “UNCG was absolutely essential to my development as a writer.” http://www.greensboro.com/go_triad/arts/books/new-author-uncg-was-absolutely-essential-to-my-development-as/article_a1679f39-ab8f-5276-9f83-bfe803b378a1.html
The third poetry collection by Emilia Phillips, faculty member at the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, is now available for pre-order from University of Akron Press: http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/book-details/index.dot?id=71fe05ca-8642-4380-bcfa-cf5cad806213
Greensboro writer Michael Parker talks about his new collection of flash fiction, Everything, Then and Since, over at Tin House: http://tinhouse.com/truly-brutally-alive-interview-michael-parker/
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, from MFA Writing Program alumna Nina Riggs, is highlighted as “one of the most helpful” non-self-help books of the year from the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/books/review/best-self-help.html
Holly Goddard Jones, fiction faculty at the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, talks about her post-apocalyptic novel The Salt Line over at Fiction Writers Review and Paste: http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/facing-the-scary-thing-in-the-dark-an-interview-with-holly-goddard-jones/ & https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-salt-line-holly-goddard-jones.html
