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 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. …
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 …
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.
Current MCW Screenwriter Nathan Patton has won a First Look Project contest for his screenplay Waitress #2. Congratulations, Nathan!
The New York Times has published Edward Carey’s beautiful illustrated homage to Charles Dickens. Edward Carey is a writer and illustrator whose books include The Iremonger Trilogy: Heap House, Foulsham, and Lungdon; Observatory Mansions; and Alva & Irva: The Twins Who Saved a City. His artwork has been exhibited in Florence, Collodi, Kilkenny, Milan, London and Austin; his essays …
American Short Fiction has awarded MCW fiction faculty Elizabeth McCracken with a Gold Star for Excellence in Teaching. The award was given at ASF’s annual Stars At Night event. Congratulations, Elizabeth! 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 …
Congratulations to Fiction Faculty Peter LaSalle who was honored with a 2018 Co-op Award for his book, Sleeping Mask: Fictions.
MCW alum sam sax has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship of $25,800. Read more at Poetry Foundation.
7pm Thursday, November 15th Mulva Auditorium (EERC) The Michener Center is thrilled to present a reading by Robert Hass. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Poet Laureate of the United States. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. In 2014 …
