MCW Poetry Alum Anna Maria Hong was awarded the 2019 Norma Farber First Book Award for her book Age of Glass. Congratulations, Anna Maria! Details about the award here.
MCW Alum Anna Maria Hong Wins Norma Farber First Book Award
MCW Alum David Modigliani’s Film RUNNING WITH BETO Premieres at SXSW
Running with Beto, a new documentary directed by MCW alum David Modigliani, premiered at SXSW. The film will air on HBO in late spring. Reviewed here in Variety. Congratulations, David!
MCW Poet Shangyang Fang Wins 2019 Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize
MCW Poet Shangyang Fang has won the 2019 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize. Shangyang was awarded first prize for his poem Argument of Situations. Congratulations, Shangyang! Details here.
Annie Baker & Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Join UT Playwriting Faculty
The University of Texas at Austin has announced that the award-winning playwrights Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will join UT’s playwriting faculty. More details at American Theatre.
MCW Reading: Jane Miller
7 pm Thursday, March 7, 2019 At Malvern Books Facebook Event Jane Miller is the author of the poetry volumes Thunderbird, A Palace of Pearls, Wherever You Lay Your Head, Memory at These Speeds: New & Selected Poems, August Zero, American Odalisque, and Who Is Trixie the Trasher? and Other Questions, all from Copper Canyon Press. Her honors include fellowships from the NEA …
Edwidge Danticat Gives Keynote Talk at UT
Join Black Studies at UT Austin as we sit down with Award-winning author and a MacArthur Fellow, Edwidge Danticat on the opening night for the Black Studies at UT 2nd Biennial Conference. A book signing will follow the keynote at 8:45 pm. For more information about Edwidge Danticat and the full conference schedule, please visit …
Elizabeth McCracken Featured in NYTimes Book Review By the Book
Elizabeth McCracken was interviewed by the New York Times Book Review for By the Book. Elizabeth McCracken is the author of two short story collections, Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry and Thunderstruck; a memoir, An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination; and three novels, The Giant’s House,Niagara Falls All Over Again, and Bowlaway, which will be published in February 2019. …
MCW Reading: Claire Vaye Watkins
7pm Thursday, Feb. 7th, 2019 Mulva Auditorium (EERC)Facebook Event Claire Vaye Watkins is the author of the short story collection Battleborn (2012) and the novel Gold Fame Citrus (2015). She is the recipient of The Story Prize and was named “5 under 35” by the National Book Foundation. In 2014 she received a Guggenheim Award. The Mulva …
Fall 2018 Visitors to MCW
In Fall 2018 the Michener Center was honored to bring the award-winning novelist and short story writer Edward P. Jones; the Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker Michael Ondaatje; playwright, activist, television writer, and novelist Kia Corthron; and National Book Award-winner, Pulitzer Prize-winner, and former United States Poet Laureate Robert Hass. Photos below.
MCW Screenwriter Nathan Patton Wins First Look Project Contest
Current MCW Screenwriter Nathan Patton has won a First Look Project contest for his screenplay Waitress #2. Congratulations, Nathan!