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.
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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…
Greensboro alum Kelly Link featured on BBC Radio’s Fantastic Journeys
Listen to “The Faery Handbag” by UNC Greensboro alumna Kelly Link over on BBC Radio 4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hlb0h?fbclid=IwAR0IeQGjuZHQ6-z9m4GrklrIhYFpFEE0SwJQwixgTmpGxaQ76qrTT_JielU
New Greensboro Review issue, with features on Poetry Daily, Verse Daily
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…
MFA professor and alumna receive NC Arts Council Fellowships
Two of this year’s NC Arts Council Fellowships were awarded to members of our UNCG creative writing community: Emilia Phillips, poetry faculty member, and MFA Writing Program alumna Jennie Malboeuf. Phillips plans to use the grant to fund experiential research and residencies toward the completion of a lyric essay collection…. Continue reading…
Poetry Professor Stuart Dischell profiled in UNCG Research Magazine
UNCG’s 2018 Senior Research Excellence Award winner Stuart Dischell (poetry faculty in the MFA Writing Program) profiled in UNCG Research Magazine: https://researchmagazine.uncg.edu/fall-2019/standing-on-z/