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 …
Don’t miss this chance to hear award-winning author Michael Ondaatje read selections from his latest novel, Warlight, which tells the dramatic story of two teenagers whose lives are changed when they are left in the care of a mysterious figure named “The Moth.” Ondaatje, who received the Golden Man Booker prize this year for his …
7 pm. Monday, Sept. 24th, 2018 Mulva Auditorium (EER) Edward P. Jones is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 2003 novel The Known World. He is also the author of the short story collections Lost in the City (1992) and All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006). His many other honors include a MacArthur Fellowship in 2004 and …
Screenwriter and Michener Fellow Nathan Patton placed 5th in the Launch’s screenplay contest. for his screenplay, “GREENWOOD.” UT’s RTF MFA student Brittany Worthington placed 2nd for her screenplay, “Golden State.”
Michener Center alum Fiona McFarlane, who graduated in 2012, has won a $30,000 Kibble Award, for her short story collection, The High Places.
3pm on 9/9. Resident of San Antonio, Naomi Shihab Nye was a longtime visiting writer at the Michener Center for Writers and a longtime friend of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders, and is a fan of many Austin writers. She is now on faculty at Texas State University in the Creative Writing …
Friday, July 20, 2018 7 pm BookPeople Katie Williams reads from her new book, Tell the Machine Goodnight. Her short fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, American Short Fiction, Prairie Schooner, Subtropics, and elsewhere. Williams earned her MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. She teaches writing and literature at Academy of Art University …
