COLUMBUS, Miss. — An official book launch to celebrate the release of Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg’s third poetry collection will be held Tuesday, March 29 from 5-6:30 p.m. in the Puckett House. During the launch, Dunkelberg will read from “Barrier Island Suite: Poems Inspired by The Life and Art of Walter…
Creating a poem in a social media platform restricted to 140 characters. Writing in an electronic medium with hyperlinks that take the reader to non-linear stories. Interacting with published authors and poets at the annual Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium. These are some of the ways in which 11 graduate students…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Beth Kander-Dauphin, a student in Mississippi University for Women’s new low-residency master of fine arts program in creative writing, has been selected for an internship as screenwriter with Mississippi Film Studios in Canton. Kander-Dauphin went through a rigorous application process of interviews and writing samples to be…
Local poet, Kendall Dunkelberg, will publish his third collection, titled Barrier Island Suite. The poems tell the story of Mississippi artist Walter Inglis Anderson as seen through his logs and his artwork. A well-known artist working in water color, charcoal, pen and ink, sculpture, and murals, Anderson lived in Ocean…
COLUMBUS, Miss. – After just one semester, Mississippi University for Women’s master’s of fine arts program in creative writing has received a No. 1 ranking. Ranking 1 0f 50 colleges and universities in the “Best Online Master’s in English & Creative Writing: Students Before Profits Award 2015-2016,” the program was…
COLUMBUS, Miss.—With recent approval from its accrediting agency, Mississippi University for Women this fall is offering its first-ever classes in a new low-residency master of fine arts in creative writing. The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges approved the program as part of the scope of current…
Mississippi University for Women has received a letter dated August 13, 2015, from Dr. Belle S. Wheelan, President of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges, acknowledging the receipt of all supporting documentation of our proposal to implement the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing and approving the…
COLUMBUS, Miss. — Mississippi University for Women will soon offer a new low-residency master’s of fine arts program in creative writing. On Nov. 20, 2014, The Board of Trustees of the state Institutions of Higher Learning of Mississippi approved the university’s proposal to offer the new program, which is set…
