COLUMBUS, Miss. — The low-residency MFA program in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women will hold a series of readings Sunday May 27 through Friday, June 1, featuring graduate students and faculty. All readings are open to the public and will be held in the Gail Gunter Multipurpose Room…
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Ponder Review, Mississippi University for Women’s newest literary magazine, recently made its debut, featuring submissions from around the globe. Produced and published by the low residency master’s of fine arts program in creative writing, the magazine represents a variety of genres. “Fiction, poetry and nonfiction are well-represented, but…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Seven students from the master’s of fine arts in creative writing program at Mississippi University for Women will bring their oral storytelling craft to downtown Columbus Wednesday, June 7 at 7:30 p.m. at Books and Boards. The students are part of a class focused on oral storytelling. …
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Students in the low-residency master’s of fine arts in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women are on campus, May 25 – June 2 for their full residency period, consisting of workshops, seminars and public readings by students, faculty, and guest writers. Featured are poet Jeannie Thompson,…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg, director of creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, is set to publish the introductory college textbook, “A Writer’s Craft: multi-genre creative writing,” with London-based Palgrave Macmillan. The book is scheduled to be released in August in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom,…
COLUMBUS, Miss. – Charles (C.T.) Salazar is honored to have his poem recognized as one of the eight best in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs’ Intro Journal Project. “I feel incredibly lucky. I know competitions like this pull in way more than eight `prize worthy’ poems, and the…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Kris Lee, visiting assistant professor in English and creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, along with cast and crew, won the Warren McDaniel Award for Best Production at the 2017 Mississippi Theatre Association Festival held at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The crew won…
JACKSON, Miss. – Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg of Columbus has been awarded a $4,500 Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission (MAC) to continue his work on new poems for his fourth book. This grant is a portion of the $1.5 million in grants the Commission awarded in 2016-2017. The grants…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Students in the low-residency master’s of fine arts program in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women are on campus May 27–June 5 for their first full residency period, consisting of workshops, seminars, mentoring and public readings by students, faculty and guest writers. Students and faculty will…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Dr. Allison Chestnut, who is enrolled in Mississippi University for Women’s low-residency master’s of fine arts in creative writing program, was recently awarded an honorable mention for her original poem submitted to the Intro Journals Project. The recognition for Chestnut, who also teaches at William Carey University,…
