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 …
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 …
