{"id":183,"date":"2018-05-23T11:57:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/?p=183"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:59:04","slug":"mfa-thesis-readings-may-27-june-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/news\/mfa-thesis-readings-may-27-june-1\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA thesis readings May 27-June 1"},"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; 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All readings are open to the public and will be held in the Gail Gunter Multipurpose Room in Fant Library, starting at 7:30 pm. There will be no reading on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, May 27, will focus on poetry with featured readers, Kendall Dunkelberg, program director and author of \u201cBarrier Island Suite,\u201d and Kathleen Galvin, who will read from her thesis, \u201cPhilopatry,\u201d a collection of poems on her father\u2019s experiences during the Vietnam War and working with him on his memoirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, May 29, will feature Mary Miller, author of \u201cAlways Happy Hour\u201d and Allison Chestnut, reading from her thesis, a memoir titled \u201cVoice Lessons.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, May 30, will feature T. K. Lee, author of the forthcoming poetry collection \u201cTo Square a Circle,\u201d and Jeanna Graves, reading from her thesis \u201cWhat Did You Call Me?: A Collection of White Trash Writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, May 31, will feature Ellen Ann Fentress, writer and producer of the documentary film \u201cEyes on Mississippi,\u201d and Katrina Byrd, reading from her thesis, the novel \u201cSaving Grace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, June 1, will feature novelist Paulette Boudreaux, author of \u201cMulberry\u201d and Exodus Brownlow, reading from her thesis, the novel \u201cAfroze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each evening two or three MFA students will also give brief readings from the work they have been writing in the program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBUS, Miss. &#8212; 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 [&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-183","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\/183","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=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/184"}],"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=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}