{"id":192,"date":"2019-05-21T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/?p=192"},"modified":"2022-12-05T12:05:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T18:05:35","slug":"mfa-program-hosts-thesis-readings-starting-may-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/news\/mfa-program-hosts-thesis-readings-starting-may-26\/","title":{"rendered":"MFA program hosts thesis readings starting May 26"},"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\/DJI_0711-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Aerial view of Callaway Hall\" class=\"wp-image-25\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/DJI_0711-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/DJI_0711-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/DJI_0711-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/DJI_0711-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2022\/11\/DJI_0711.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS, Miss. &#8212; The low-residency master of fine arts program in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women will hold a series of readings May 26 and 28-31, 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 Memorial Library, starting at 7:30 p.m. There will be no reading on Memorial Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sunday, May 26, will focus on poetry with featured readers, Jacqueline Trimble, author of \u201cAmerican Happiness,\u201d and Thomas B. Richardson, who will read from his thesis, \u201cHow to Read.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, May 28, will feature Paulette Boudreaux, author of \u201cMulberry\u201d and Robin Taylor Murphy, reading from her thesis novel \u201cSpinning Still.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday, May 29, will feature Ellen Ann Fentress, writer and producer of the documentary film \u201cEyes on Mississippi,\u201d and Courtney Clark, with a dramatic reading of her playscript \u201cPieces.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday, May 30, will feature T. K. Lee, playwright and author of the poetry collection \u201cTo Square a Circle,\u201d and Sally Lyon, reading from her fiction thesis, \u201cSomeone Like You.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, May 31, will feature novelist Mary Miller, reading from her newly released novel, \u201cBiloxi,\u201d and Ashley Hewitt, reading from her thesis, the novel \u201cThe Cost of Time.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each evening current 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 master of fine arts program in creative writing at Mississippi University for Women will hold a series of readings May 26 and 28-31, featuring graduate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","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\/192","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=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/mfacreativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}