It’s that time of year again: the Program is seeking your updates to the Alumni Bibliography—which currently lists 1500+ alum publications! In addition to being a point of pride and a source for your reading pleasure, the MFA Program uses the list for accreditation purposes and for recruitment. You can always view the alumni list here: https://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni-bibliography/

Please help us keep this list as complete as possible by uploading your new publication information through a form on the site:

https://docs.google.com/a/smith.edu/forms/d/1YazT-pftQh3Syg9q34Iesy26vqqsQDWAP11dFdeos1U/viewform

  • The form will ask for your:
  • first name, last name,
  • the year in which you graduated,
  • the genre in which you graduated, fiction or poetry,
  • whether you graduated from Warren Wilson or Goddard,
  • the title of your book, 
  • the name of your publisher,
  • year of publication, and 
  • specify novel, short fiction, novella, book of poems, chapbook, anthology (of which you were editor), translated poetry, translated fiction, or “other” (explain).

Please also share any additional information regarding awards the publication received.

Thanking you in advance,

Patrick Donnelly

Poetry 2003

2013 Poetry Grad and Holden Scholar Tommye Blount is a nominee!

Finalists over the years have included faculty members Jamel Brinkley, Angela Flournoy, Lauren Groff, Alan Shapiro, Joan Silber, Ellen Bryant Voigt, and Mary Szybist, who won in 2013 for Incarnadine. Poetry alum Victoria Chang was on the longlist this year h for her collection Obit.

It’s that time of year again: the Program is seeking your updates to the Alumni Bibliography—which currently lists 800+ alum publications! In addition to being a point of pride and a source for your reading pleasure, the MFA Program uses the list for accreditation purposes and for recruitment. You can always view the alumni list here: http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/alumni-bibliography/

Please help us keep this list as complete as possible by uploading your new publication information through a form on the site:

https://docs.google.com/a/smith.edu/forms/d/1YazT-pftQh3Syg9q34Iesy26vqqsQDWAP11dFdeos1U/viewform

The form will ask for your:

  • first name, last name,
  • the year in which you graduated,
  • the genre in which you graduated, fiction or poetry,
  • whether you graduated from Warren Wilson or Goddard,
  • the title of your book, 
  • the name of your publisher,
  • year of publication, and 
  • specify novel, short fiction, novella, book of poems, chapbook, anthology (of which you were editor), translated poetry, translated fiction, or “other” (explain).

Please also share any additional information regarding awards the publication received.

Thanking you in advance,

Patrick Donnelly

Poetry 2003

It’s that time of year again–please help us update the WWC MFA Alumni Bibliography. The program website includes a link to a bibliography of all alumni book publications of which the program is aware, currently well over 700 books:

THE MFA PROGRAM FOR WRITERS BIBLIOGRAPHY

Please help us keep this list as complete as possible by uploading your new publication information through a form on the site:

Bibliography Update Form

The form will ask for your:

  • first name, last name,
  • the year in which you graduated,
  • the genre in which you graduated, fiction or poetry,
  • whether you graduated from Warren Wilson or Goddard,
  • the title of your book,
  • the name of your publisher,
  • year of publication, and
  • specify novel, short fiction, novella, book of poems, chapbook, anthology, translated poetry, translated fiction, or “other” (explain).

Please also share any additional information regarding awards the publication received.

Questions to:  [email protected]

Request for Volunteers at AWP 2019

Graduates of the MFA Program for Writers planning to attend this year’s AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon are encouraged to volunteer at the program’s table in the Bookfair.  The Bookfair will be open Thursday, March 28 to Saturday, March 30 from 9:00 to 5:00. We seek volunteers for one- or two-hour shifts to answer prospective students’ questions and to talk about how this program and its community have informed and sustained your writing lives.

Interested alumni should contact Brent Walth (fiction, 2012) at [email protected] with specifics about availability. Brent will coordinate the schedule and will be back in touch with you to confirm as the conference nears.

Our thanks in advance for your assistance!

(Photo: Adrienne Perry and Noah Stetzer working the table at AWP 17)

Request for Volunteers at AWP 2019

Graduates of the MFA Program for Writers planning to attend this year’s AWP Conference in Portland, Oregon are encouraged to volunteer at the program’s table in the Bookfair.  The Bookfair will be open Thursday, March 28 to Saturday, March 30 from 9:00 to 5:00. We seek volunteers for one- or two-hour shifts to answer prospective students’ questions and to talk about how this program and its community have informed and sustained your writing lives.

Interested alumni should contact Brent Walth (fiction, 2012) at [email protected] with specifics about availability. Brent will coordinate the schedule and will be back in touch with you to confirm as the conference nears.

Our thanks in advance for your assistance!

(Photo: Adrienne Perry and Noah Stetzer working the table at AWP 17)

A reminder that the deadline for registering for the Annual Alumni Writing Conference is next Saturday, June 3. Prices and information can be found at http://friendsofwriters.org/the-2017-alumni-conference/. Don’t delay; it could be the most rewarding week of your summer!

It’s that time of year again: the Program is seeking your updates to the Alumni Bibliography—which currently lists 600+ alum publications!  In addition to being a point of pride and a source for your reading pleasure, the MFA Program uses the list for accreditation purposes and for recruitment.  You can always view the alumni reading list here: http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/alumni-bibliography/

Please help us keep this list as complete as possible by uploading your new publication information through google docs:

https://docs.google.com/a/smith.edu/forms/d/1YazT-pftQh3Syg9q34Iesy26vqqsQDWAP11dFdeos1U/viewform

The form will ask for your:

first name, last name,

the year in which you graduated,

the genre in which you graduated, fiction or poetry,

whether you graduated from Warren Wilson or Goddard,

the title of your book,

the name of your publisher,

year of publication, and

specify novel, short fiction, novella, book of poems, chapbook, anthology, translated poetry, translated fiction, or “other” (explain).

Please also share any additional information regarding awards the publication received.

Thanking you in advance,

 

Patrick Donnelly

Poetry ‘03