TLH book club selects “Pure” by MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Julianna Baggott as their first read of 2013: http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20130125/LIVING/301260002/New-TLH-Book-Club-starts-out-Pure-?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7Cfrontpage&nclick_check=1
Congratulations to MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Nina Riggs for winning a 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize! http://www.dorothyprizes.org/
James Ponsoldt, the helmer behind the upcoming Shailene Woodley vehicle, will write and direct the adaptation of MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Julianna Baggott’s popular book, “Pure.” http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/sundance-spectacular-director-boards-ya-413470
Live in Portland, Maine? Go see MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Steve Almond tonight at SPACE Gallery: http://www.space538.org/event_details.php?id=1737
Congratulations to MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum George Singleton, whose Dzanc Books collection “Stray Decorum” was listed by Library Journal as one the best Story Collections of 2012: http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2013/01/prepub/goodbye-2012-terrific-story-collections-and-small-press-bests/
Live in Coral Gables? Take a workshop with MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Lynne Barrett: http://www.flcenterlitarts.com/site/programs/writing/courses/spring_2013/cg-outreach/lbarrett.html
Congratulations to MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Maria Hummel, whose collection, ‘House and Fire,’ was selected by Fanny Howe as the winner of the 2013 Honickman Book Prize: https://www.aprweb.org/news/2013/01/02/2013-honickman-book-prize-winner-announced
Live in Boston? Take a workshop with MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Steve Almond over at Grub Street: http://grubstreet.org/index.php?workshopcategory=all&coursetype=all&level=all&instructor=Steve+Almond&id=402&ditto_tags#.UOQ6sonjl29
“Inch and Roly and the Very Small Hiding Place,” the latest from MFA Writing Program at Greensboro Melissa Wiley is now available for pre-order: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/144245279X/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=144245279X&linkCode=as2&tag=sdcm-20
Listen alum Kelly Cherry read her Tarumoto Prize-winning story over at Blackbird: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v11n2/features/tarumoto_prize/index_cherry_k.s…
