Congratulations to MCW poetry alum Sarah Matthes, who was awarded the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize from Persea Books!
MCW Poetry Alum Sarah Matthes Wins Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize
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MCW Alum Greg Marshall Awarded 2020 NEA Fellowship for Prose
Congratulations to Greg Marshall (Fiction, MFA 2013) who was named recipient of a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship.
“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support our nation’s writers, including Greg, and the artistry, creativity, and dedication that go into their work,” said Mary Anne Carter, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Marshall was selected from nearly 1,700 eligible applicants. Fellowships alternate between poetry and prose each year and this year’s fellowships are to support prose writers. The full list of FY 2020 Creative Writing Fellows is available here.
MCW Poet Annelyse Gelman Published in The New Yorker
Michener Fellow and poet Annelyse Gelman’s poem, “The Climate,” was published in The New Yorker. Read and listen to a recording of the poem here.
(Photo by Dirk Skiba.)
MCW Alum Sarah Matthes Wins 2019 Gutow Poetry Prize
Sarah Matthes (MFA 2019) was named Graduate Prizewinner of the 2019 Andrew Julius Gutow Poetry Prize for her poem 613 Mitzvot. Read the poem here.
Event: An Evening with Lauren Groff
6PM
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Harry Ransom Center
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We are thrilled to have Lauren Groff for a reading at the Ransom Center on October 10th. She is the author of numerous books including Fates and Furies, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Prize, and was a New York Times Bestseller. It was President Barack Obama’s favorite book of 2015. Groff is also the author of the recent and acclaimed short story collection Florida.
“Lauren Groff is a great storyteller . . . Florida is restorative fiction for these urgent times. Its final gestures, even the most ominous . . . lean toward love and the promise of good people, in not just this state but the world.” –New York Times
Sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center.
This reading is free and open to the public.
MCW Alum Lara Prescott Profiled in NYTimes
Lara Prescott (MFA 2018) was profiled in The New York Times about her forthcoming book, The Secrets We Kept Knopf (2019). Read the profile here.
Screening: Running with Beto with MCW Alum and Director David Modigliani
6PM
Friday, September 20, 2019
Texas Union Theatre
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Friday, September 20, 2019
Texas Union Theatre
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Documentary director and Michener Center alum David Modigliani will be in attendance for a screening of his film Running with Beto. A Q&A will follow the screening. This event is free and open to the public.
Reading: Joanna Klink
6PM
Tuesday, September 24
Mulva Auditorium
Engineering and Education Research Center (EER)
2501 Speedway
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Joanna Klink is the author of They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000), Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007), Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010), and Excerpts for a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015). She has received awards and fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, Civitella Ranieri, The Bogliasco Foundation, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana.
Joanna Klink is the Fall 2019 Visiting Poet at the Michener Center for Writers. This event is free and open to the public.
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MCW Fellow Minghao Tu’s Play FOR THE SMOG IS RISING Presented at NYPL
MCW playwright Minghao Tu’s play FOR THE SMOG IS RISING will be presented in a staged reading at 53rd Street New York Public Library (18 W 53 Street, across the street from MOMA), Thursday August 15 at 7pm. More details here.
MCW Alum Nathan Patton Wins Script Pipeline Contest
MCW alum Nathan Patton won the 2019 Script Pipeline TV Writing Contest for his script Redflags.