{"id":176,"date":"2017-05-25T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/?p=176"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:54:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:54:06","slug":"mfa-in-creative-writing-presents-a-week-of-readings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/news\/mfa-in-creative-writing-presents-a-week-of-readings\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/web1.muw.edu\/as\/llp\/news\/4438-mfa-in-creative-writing-presents-a-week-of-readings\">MFA in creative writing presents a week of readings<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Callaway Hall\" class=\"wp-image-40\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/106A83451-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS, Miss. &#8212; Students in the low-residency master\u2019s of fine arts in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women are on campus, May 25 \u2013 June 2 for their full residency period, consisting of workshops, seminars and public readings by students, faculty, and guest writers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Featured are poet Jeannie Thompson, author of \u201cThe Myth of Water: poems from the life of Hellen Keller,\u201d who will read Saturday, May 27, and novelist Diana Spechler, author of the novels \u201cWho by Fire\u201d and \u201cSkinny,\u201d who will read Thursday, June 1. Core MFA faculty will also read from recent work: Kendall Dunkelberg will read Friday, May 26; Mary Miller, whose short story collection \u201cAlways Happy Hour\u201d was published in 2017, will read Sunday, May 28; and after a break for Memorial Day, Kris Lee will read Tuesday, May 30.<br><br>The MFA program\u2019s first thesis candidates will be featured Wednesday, May 31. Tammie Rice will read from her memoir manuscript \u201cThese Stones I Carry,\u201d and Beth Kander-Dauphin will read from her novel manuscript \u201cUnshelved.\u201d<br><br>The public is invited to attend any and all of these evening readings, which will be held in the Limbert Assembly Room of Cochran Hall on The W\u2019s front campus, beginning at 7:30 p.m. May 26-28 and May 3 \u2013June 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Miss. &#8212; Students in the low-residency master\u2019s of fine arts in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women are on campus, May 25 \u2013 June 2 for their full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}