MCW Alum Virginia Reeves’ new novel The Behavior of Love: A Novel was reviewed in The New Yorker by Katy Waldman. Virginia Reeves received an MFA from the Michener Center in 2012. Read the review here: Virginia Reeves’s New Novel Explores What It Feels Like When the Mind Breaks
MCW alum Carrie Fountain was named Poet Laureate of the State of Texas. Congratulations, Carrie! More info here.
Come celebrate our graduating class of 2019! Friday, May 10 Reading at 7:30PM Avaya Auditorium (POB 2.302) Facebook Event (Photo caption back, left to right: Sam Boyer, Leah Hampton, Yuki Tanaka, Chessy Normile, Rachel Engelman, Nathan Patton, Lucas Loredo, Thom May; Front, left to right: Ally Glass-Katz, Sarah Matthes, Hannah Kenah, Sindya Bhanoo …
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.
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!
7 pm Thursday, April 25, 2019 Malvern Books Facebook Event Please join us for an evening with Cathy Park Hong. Her latest poetry collection, Engine Empire, was published in 2012 by W.W. Norton. Her other collections include Dance Dance Revolution, chosen by Adrienne Rich for the Barnard Women Poets Prize, and Translating Mo’um. Hong is …
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.
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.
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 …
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 …
