Michener fiction alum Rachel Heng (MFA ’20) was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship for Creative Writing. Congratulations, Rachel! Read more about Rachel and the NEA here.
MCW Alum Rachel Heng Named NEA Fellow for 2022
Author: Holly Doyel
MCW Graduation Readings in May!
The Michener Center is thrilled to celebrate our classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 this May! Please join us for three public readings (5/7, 5/13, and 5/14) at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC). Details for each reading below.
Reading for the Class of 2022
May 7, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Chichi Abii, Emmie Atwood, Beverly Chukwu, Kendra Daniels, Rickey Fayne, Ryan Paradiso, Mary Lee, Alejandro Puyana, Jaymes Sanchez, Zack Schlosberg, Leela Srinivasan, & Molly Williams.
Reading for the Class of 2020
May 13, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Desiree Evans, Shangyang Fang, Annelyse Gelman, Nathan Harris, Rachel Heng, Michael Herr, Paul Kruse, Cecelia Raker, Tracey Rose, Daniel Ruiz, Kim Tran, & Minghao Tu.
Reading for the Class of 2021
May 14, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Amanda Bestor-Siegal, Maryan Captan, Hedgie Choi, Willie Fitzgerald, Lauren Green, David Grivette, Jackson Holbert, Gursimrat Kaur, Bismarck Martinez, Sam Mayer, Soeun Seo, & Avigayl Sharp.
MCW Alum Nathan Harris’ Debut Novel Chosen for Oprah’s Book Club
Nathan Harris’ debut novel The Sweetness of Water is the latest pick for Oprah’s Book Club. Watch Nathan’s appearance alongside Oprah Winfrey on CBS This Morning.
Michener Fellow Bev Chukwu Wins BlueCat Screenplay Competition
Michener Fellow Beverly Chukwu’s screenplay, “Prince of Lavendale Street,” was named Feature Winner in the 2021 BlueCat Screenplay Competition! Winners receive a cash prize and have their scripts forwarded to managers, agents, and other industry members. Congratulations, Bev!
Fall Visiting Faculty Mitchell Jackson Wins Pulitzer
MCW visiting faculty Mitchell Jackson was awarded a Pulitzer in Feature Writing for “Twelve Minutes and a Life,” a long-form piece published in Runner’s World. In Fall 2021, Mitchell Jackson will teach a graduate workshop in Nonfiction at the Michener Center.
MCW Alum Reina Hardy’s Play at The Know Theatre
A production of MCW Alum Reina Hardy’s play, Glass Heart, is at The Know Theatre in Cincinnati through December 12th. More details here.
MCW Alum Lauren Green Wins 2021 Poetry Society of America Award
MCW alum Lauren Green’s chapbook A Great Dark House was selected by Joshua Bennett for the 2021 Poetry Society of America’s Chapbook Fellowship Award. Read a poem from Lauren’s manuscript here. Congratulations, Lauren!
MCW Alum Rachel Heng in The New Yorker
MCW Alum Nathan Harris in Publishers Weekly
Nathan Harris, a Michener alum in fiction (MFA ’20) was featured in Publishers Weekly. Read more about Nathan and his forthcoming debut novel, The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown and Company, 2021):
What Does Freedom Mean? A Debut Novel Is Asking.
Recent & Upcoming Faculty & Visitors
In 2020-21, the Michener Center is thrilled to welcome visiting faculty Molly Antopol, Joanna Klink, Maya Perez, and Natasha Trethewey. Read more about them here.
While we are still putting together our roster of guests and visiting faculty for the coming year, we are thrilled to announce that, in 2021, we will host Mary Szybist and Mitchell Jackson among others.