The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Jean-Luc Bouchard and Mary Sims on Friday, February 3rd at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2023 Thesis Reading Series, the event is free and… Continue reading…
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Kiana Govoni and Jordan Williams on Friday, January 27th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2023 Thesis Reading Series, the event is free and… Continue reading…
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Emily Mathis, Maddie Poole, and Maddy Porter on Friday, January 20th at 6:00 PM at Scuppernong Books, 304 South Elm Street. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2023 Thesis Reading Series, the event is… Continue reading…
What is it about “the strange” that allows us, readers and writers alike, to access some deeper human truth? How does strangeness operate on us—as we read it, as we write it, as we experience it? Some variation of this question was posed by one of my former professors, and… Continue reading…
I struggled over the summer to get writing. I realize I’m not supposed to say I took a break in my writing regimen, especially before I started an MFA program, but after a year of struggling with writing, community, and my identity, I found myself resisting my usual practices and… Continue reading…
When I committed to attending UNCG for graduate school, I suddenly realized the amount of changes I had just agreed to. Like most of my colleagues, I was packing up and leaving the life I had made—my friends, my routines, my job—behind me in order to have two years where… Continue reading…
It’s times like these—early September, the start of the semester, the twilight of another year—that I remember I am rarely this thing called myself. Hardly a month ago I moved to a new city in a new state, where I knew no one and no one knew me. With the… Continue reading…
We asked our graduating creative writers about their influences and inspirations, and how those may have grown over the course of the two-year MFA degree. When I came into this program, I was fairly new to literary fiction. I’d only been reading and studying it for a handful of years…. Continue reading…
We asked our graduating creative writers about their influences and inspirations, and how those may have grown over the course of the two-year MFA degree. I’ve always believed in taking influence and inspiration where you find it. That’s changed over the course of the last two years, as I’ve grown… Continue reading…
The MFA Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will host a fiction and poetry reading by Matt Coz and DJ Ferguson on Friday, March 5th at 7PM. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2021 Thesis Reading Series, this virtual event will be livestreamed via our YouTube channel. It is free… Continue reading…
