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Essays

Melt with Me - Coming of Age and Other ’80s Perils by Paul Crenshaw

Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Paul Crenshaw!

Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Paul Crenshaw! Melt with Me: Coming of Age and other 80’s […]


These Particular Women by Kat Meads

Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Kat Meads!

Happy Pub Day to UNCG MFA Writing Program alum Kat Meads! These Particular Women launches today from Sagging Meniscus Press. […]


how these blickity-black books are helping me build a love for reading: a story & a love letter by james daniels

So first, a confession: I’m a writing teacher, and a poet, with a book in the works, and I am […]


No Happy Endings: Dept. of Speculation, Little Weirds, and Sour Heart by Nellie Hildebrandt

I’ve always been a sensitive person. I mourn road kill before I’ve realized it’s only a plastic bag on the […]


I’m Hardly a Mystery Buff by Sierra Stonebraker

I’m hardly a mystery buff. In fact, I’ve been known to actively avoid the mystery section in most bookstores for […]


I have a set of bookmarks with a heading that says “Books I’ve Read!” by Nicholas Leon

I have a set of bookmarks with a heading that says “Books I’ve Read!” There are ten slots for books […]


Reading Up to the MFA Program by Gabrielle Girard

Looking back on the books I read in the months before moving to Greensboro, I see the UNCG application process […]


Familiar Strangeness: Reading the Unknowable by Katie Worden

What is it about “the strange” that allows us, readers and writers alike, to access some deeper human truth? How […]


A Lot of Things I’m Probably Not Supposed to Say or Reading, Writing, and Re-Adjusting Creative Energy or . . . by Calista Malone

I struggled over the summer to get writing. I realize I’m not supposed to say I took a break in […]


The Familiarity of Getting Lost in a Book by Caroline White

When I committed to attending UNCG for graduate school, I suddenly realized the amount of changes I had just agreed […]