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Alumni and Faculty from the MFA Program for Writers are welcome to submit their publication news directly to the Forum.  We publish various types of content including short excerpts from newly published poems, stories, interviews, recognitions, opportunities for alumni and more!

Celebrate 35 Years of Giving

Friends of Writers invites you to join us for an afternoon of readings, food, drinks, and community as we celebrate 35 years of supporting writers. Our 2026 fundraiser honors Friends of Writers’ 35th anniversary and generations of writers and readers, generous donors and volunteers who have sustained our work. The afternoon will feature readings by former Holden Scholars, poet A. Van Jordan and fiction writer Bora Lee Reed, as well as MFA Program for Writers faculty member and fiction writer Vanessa Hua.

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ABOUT US

Our mission is to foster vital literary voices and initiatives.

Our vision is a world in which literary community is vibrant, inclusive, and well-supported. We do this by soliciting, managing, and disbursing funds to support writers as they seek and fulfill their potential through graduate study and beyond. FOW values rigorous writing programs and projects that encourage the development of the individual’s finest work, and also values the diversity—in aesthetic, ethnicity, gender, age, occupational, geographic, and economic background—that will ensure American writing reflects the entire nation.

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FROM THE FORUM

Warren Wilson College MFA Graduation Speech, July 2026

July 21, 2026/by Nuha Fariha

Friends of Writers Summer 2026 Community Digest: Awards, Magazine Publications, and Other Achievements

June 30, 2026/by friendsofwritersblog

Friends of Writers Summer 2026 Community Digest: New Books

June 30, 2026/by friendsofwritersblog

“Against Melancholy” by Nathan McClain (Poetry ’13)

June 23, 2026/by friendsofwritersblog
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Scholarships and Projects

Friends of Writers raises funds that support students, faculty and alums.

We launch and support activities and infrastructure designed to ensure that our diverse community of poets and fiction writers continue to flourish.

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