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. …
MCW Reading: Claire Vaye Watkins
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 …
Fall 2018 Visitors to MCW
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.
MCW Screenwriter Nathan Patton Wins First Look Project Contest
Current MCW Screenwriter Nathan Patton has won a First Look Project contest for his screenplay Waitress #2. Congratulations, Nathan!
Edward Carey Illustration in NYTimes
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 …
Elizabeth McCracken Awarded Gold Star for Teaching
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 …
Fiction Faculty Peter LaSalle Wins 2018 Co-op Award
Congratulations to Fiction Faculty Peter LaSalle who was honored with a 2018 Co-op Award for his book, Sleeping Mask: Fictions.
sam sax wins Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship
MCW alum sam sax has received a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship of $25,800. Read more at Poetry Foundation.
Robert Hass Reading
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 …
Ransom Center Event: Michael Ondaatje
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 …