MFA Creative Writing

Name: MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 7
Start: 2026-06-04T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2026-06-04T20:00:00-05:00
Location: GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

Events from this organizer

October 2025
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium Keynote

Featured October 23, 2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

Featuring Ashley M. Jones, Lullaby for the Grieving Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Friday AM

Featured October 24, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

Featuring: drea brown, Conjuring the Haint: The Haunting Poetics of Black Women, Welty Prize Addie E. Citchens, Dominion Kathleen Driskell, Goat-Footed Gods Rickey Fayne, The Devil Three Times Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Friday PM

Featured October 24, 2025 @ 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

Featuring: Robert Busby, Bodock Olivia Clare Friedman, An Arm Fixed to a Wing Carrie R. Moore, Make Your Way Home: Stories Ephemera Prize Winners: Colin Chung, Jake Heisler, Anthony Nguyen, Ryan Wei, and Althea Wells Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium, Saturday AM

Featured October 25, 2025 @ 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Eudora Welty Writers’ Symposium

Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter Hall

Featuring: Kendall Dunkelberg, Tree Fall with Birdsong Jordan LaHaye Fontenot, Home of the Happy Samyak Shertok, No Rhododendron Lauren Rhoades, Split the Baby Watch Live View the full schedule

Free
May 2026
MFA Short Residency Reading

May 28 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

readings by Kendall Dunkelberg, Johnelle Lamarque, Amy Wilson, Meriwether Nichols, Bev Heasley, Leigh Latham, Lisa Bevevino, and Jordan Taylor Barlow
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 1

May 29 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

G.P Gunter Room

Mckensi White and Morgan Wilson with Jordan Taylor
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 2

May 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

Mary Miller and Rachel Sedore with Leigh Latham and Amy Wilson
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 3

May 31 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

L. Lamar Wilson and Katerina Canyon with Tomia Jones and Lisa Bevevino
June 2026
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 4

June 1 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

Brandy Wilson and Alasdair Rivers with Gwynnedra Vance and Bev Heasley
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 5

June 2 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

L. Lamar Wilson and Karin Fazio Littlefield with alumni reader Celeste Schueler
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 6

June 3 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

T. K. Lee and Leslie Cardwell with Devon Boan and Meriwether Nichols
MFA Full Residency 2026 Reading 7

June 4 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

GPG Room- Fant Memorial Library

Ellen Ann Fentress and Teresa Nicolas with Anne Gunter and Gavin McLemore

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