Request for Volunteers at AWP 2018

The MFA Program for Writers will once again have a table at the AWP Conference. This year’s gathering will be held in Tampa, Florida. The Bookfair is open Thursday, March 7 to Saturday, March 10, from 9:00 to 5:00. We seek volunteers in one- or two-hour shifts, to answer questions from prospective students and to talk about their experience in the MFA program.

If you’re coming to AWP and are able to donate some time toward staffing our table, please contact alumna Alison Powell (Fiction, 2010; [email protected], or via FaceBook), February 20 with specifics about your availability. Allison will coordinate the schedule and will be back in touch with you to confirm.

Our thanks in advance for your assistance. As one of our recent print ads stated, “Our graduates are our best advertisement.” Your many successes—and your abiding enthusiasm for our program—provide impressive evidence of what the Warren Wilson MFA yields and makes possible for our lives as writers.

As always, WWCMFA will represent in DC!  Click on the link below to download a PDF of readings, panels and presentations by faculty and alums of our program.*

Drop us a note if we missed your event.  We’ll include it in the next update.

DON’T FORGET:  Our reception for faculty, alumni, and students will take place at the Morrison-Clark Inn, 1011 L Street NW, on February 10 from 9 pm until midnight.  (The Morrison-Clark Inn is a half block east of the AWP HQ hotel.)

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*Visit the AWP website to find the listing of the MANY offsite events. AWP OFFSITE

We’re looking forward to seeing many of you at AWP 2017 in Washington, D.C.!  Come visit our Bookfair table (#306-T)–and mark your calendars now for our annual Friday-night gathering. Our reception for faculty, alumni, and students will take place at the Morrison-Clark Inn, 1011 L Street NW, on February 10 from 9 pm until midnight. 

This reception will be preceded by a reception for prospective students of color, so please pass along the information below to anyone who might be interested. If you know of prospective students or faculty of color you’d like us to invite directly, please send those details to [email protected].

We are organizing panel discussions for the 40^th Anniversary celebration on June 28^th.

On the docket are two morning panels of alumni and faculty supervisors and an afternoon panel with alums alone. These talks will highlight the rich and essential correspondence between student and supervisor that enabled each of us to grow as writers.

We hope you’ll want to share something you valued in the back and forth with any of your supervisors. This might be a moment when a craft element began to make sense and enrich your work.  You might want to talk about a humorous moment of self-reflection, or an aspect of your relationship with your supervisor that allowed you to break through to a new understanding. You might want to talk about a moment of frustration that later bore fruit.

We do hope you’ll share some of your wisdom with your colleagues. Please send to us at [email protected] a short proposal along with a selection of the correspondence you’d like to present at the event. We need your material by May 1.

Thanks so much, and looking forward to reading your selections,

Maeve Kinkead ’08 and Abby Wender ‘08