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.
MCW Alum Lara Prescott Profiled in NYTimes
Screening: Running with Beto with MCW Alum and Director David Modigliani
6PM Friday, September 20, 2019 Texas Union Theatre Facebook Event 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 Facebook Event 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 …
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.
MCW Alum Alen Hamza Awarded CSU Poetry Center First Book Prize
MCW graduate Alen Hamza was named winner of the First Book Poetry Competition by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center for his book EXIT EMPIRE, forthcoming September 2020. Read more here: http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/news-1/
MCW Alum Anna Maria Hong Named Double Finalist for Vermont Book Award
MCW Alum Anna Maria Hong was named Finalist for the 2019 Vermont Book Award both for her poetry collection AGE OF GLASS and for her novella H & G. Anna Maria Hong is the first ever double finalist for the prize, which is given annually by Vermont College of Fine Arts honoring work by Vermont …
MCW Alum Dominic Smith Reviewed in NYTimes
MCW Alum Dominic Smith’s new novel, THE ELECTRIC HOTEL, received a glowing review in The New York Times. Dominic Smith earned his MFA in Fiction and Screenwriting from the Michener Center in 2003.
MCW Alum Domenica Ruta Reviewed in NYTimes
MCW Alum Domenica Ruta’s new novel Last Day was reviewed by Terese Svoboda in The New York Times. Read the review here: “A Darkly Glittering Novel That Imagines the Earth’s Final Hours”
MCW Alum F. T. Kola Awarded Stegner Fellowship
MCW Alum F. T. Kola was awarded a Stegner Fellowship for 2019-2021. F.T. Kola was born in South Africa and grew up in Australia. She holds an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She was shortlisted for the Caine Prize for African Writing in 2015 and received …