Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Dan Albergotti!
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Dan Albergotti! Circa MMXX launches today from Unicorn Press.
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Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Scott Owens!
Happy Pub Day to UNC Greensboro MFA Writing Program alum Scott Owens! Worlds Enough: Poems for and about Children is now available from Redhawk Publications.
Hot off the Press! Antipodes by MFA Writing Program Faculty Holly Goddard Jones
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…
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Steve Almond!
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Steve Almond! All the Secrets of the World launches today from Zando.
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program Faculty Member Stuart Dischell!
Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program Faculty Member Stuart Dischell! The Lookout Man launches today from The University of Chicago Press.
Greensboro Faculty Poets Reflect on National Poetry Month
In honor of the 25th anniversary of National Poetry Month this April, UNCG faculty poets Stuart Dischell and Emilia Phillips offer a few words about how poetry is necessary right now. Read more: https://news.uncg.edu/faculty-poets-reflect-on-national-poetry-month/
MFA Alumna Rose Himber Howse awarded Stegner Fellowship
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!
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.
Xhenet Aliu wins 2020 Townsend Prize for fiction
Greensboro MFA faculty Xhenet Aliu has won this year’s Townsend Prize for her novel, Brass. The Townsend Prize for Fiction is the state of Georgia’s oldest and most prestigious literary award, awarded biennially by the Georgia Center for the Book in partnership with the Chattahoochee Review. Congrats, Xhenet! https://www.ajc.com/entertainment/books–literature/xhenet-aliu-brass-wins-2020-townsend-prize-for-fiction/WXOCrzMBug7TtD5whvCsiP/
Camille Dungy, UNCG poetry alum, named University Distinguished Professor
Congratulations to UNC Greensboro alumna Camille T. Dungy for being named Colorado State University Distinguished Professor! “Camille Dungy, an award-winning poet, Guggenheim Fellow and faculty member in the Department of English, has been named a University Distinguished Professor. “Her record of creative activity is simply outstanding: scores of individual poems… Continue reading…