Join us tonight at 8:15 pm in Gladfelter, Cannon Hall for readings by:
Robin Romm
Connie Voisine
Dominic Smith
Eleanor Wilner
For more information, including a full schedule of public events, please visit the program website at http://wwcmfa.org/.
At 11:30 am in Fellowship Hall, James Longenbach speaks on “The Medium of the English Language.”
Join us tonight at 8:15 pm in Fellowship Hall for readings by:
Daisy Fried
Liam Callanan
Jennifer Grotz
Megan Staffel
For more information, including a full schedule of public events, please visit the program website at http://wwcmfa.org/.
Join us tonight in Gladfelter, at Canon Lounge for readings by:
Judith Grossman
James Longenbach
Jeremy Gavron
Monica Youn
For more information, including a full schedule of public events, please visit the program website at http://wwcmfa.org/
A reminder that applications are now being accepted for the 2014/2015 Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship. The Fellowship offers a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers a one-year, non-renewable teaching position in the undergraduate Creative Writing program at Warren Wilson College. The Beebe Fellowship is available to all Warren Wilson MFA alumni, including those who received the degree during the years the program was at Goddard College. Some teaching experience is required. This year’s Beebe Fellow will have a concentration in fiction, although a facility with multiple genres is most beneficial for the program.
Full guidelines are available at http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/fellowship-opportunities/beebe-fellowship/. The deadline is February 1, 2014.
Applications are now being accepted for the 2014/2015 Joan Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship. The Fellowship offers a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers a one-year, non-renewable teaching position in the undergraduate Creative Writing program at Warren Wilson College. The Beebe Fellowship is available to all Warren Wilson MFA alumni, including those who received the degree during the years the program was at Goddard College. Some teaching experience is required. This year’s Beebe Fellow will have a concentration in fiction, although a facility with multiple genres is most beneficial for the program.
Past Beebe Fellows include Rose McLarney (Beebe Fellow 2010-11), Matthew Olzmann (Beebe Fellow 2012-13), and Rachel Howard (Beebe Fellow 2011-12).
Full guidelines are available at http://www.wwcmfa.org/alumni/fellowship-opportunities/beebe-fellowship/. The deadline is February 1, 2014.
We’re happy to announce the faculty for the January 2014 Residency. For full biographies, see program website.
Fiction
Dean Bakopoulos
Karen Brennan
Liam Callanan
Jeremy Gavron
Judith Grossman
David Haynes
C.J. Hribal
Kevin McIlvoy
Antonya Nelson
Robin Romm
David Shields
Dominic Smith
Megan Staffel
Poetry
Debra Allbery (Director)
Marianne Boruch
Daisy Fried
Jennifer Grotz
James Longenbach
Maurice Manning
Alan Shapiro
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Connie Voisine
Alan Williamson
Eleanor Wilner
Monica Youn
The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College is delighted to welcome Tyler Cloherty, who will succeed Amy Grimm as the next Assistant to the Director of the Warren Wilson MFA Program.
Tyler is a North Carolina native. For the past several years, she’s worked as an editor of scholarly books at McFarland Publishing in West Jefferson, NC. Prior to that she was a grant writer and the PR point person for Eliada Homes, Inc. She holds a BA in English from the University of North Carolina-Asheville and an MA in English from Appalachian State. Her interests include theater, Irish dance, and Celtic and Medieval Studies.
Tyler’s training with Amy is now underway. She’s looking forward to meeting faculty and students in January!
For those who would like to take a look at some of the high spirited happenings at last May’s First Annual Spring Gala, presented by Friends of Writers to endow the Carol Houck Smith Scholarship, follow this link to watch the wonderful video.
Created by Frank Wing, the video features faculty and students from Warren Wilson, as well as new friends, who gathered to support the fundraising effort and to celebrate the MFA program by way of toasting Ellen Bryant Voigt’s birthday. Click the link to see friends and mentors enjoying the festivities. Listen to a reading by Meryl Streep and Bill Irwin of selected Ellen Bryant Voigt poems, as well as the Streep/Irwin comedic review of the contemporary poetry scene. (WARNING: any resemblance to the classic “Who’s on First” is entirely intentional!)
FOW was proud to have been able to fully endow the CHS scholarship by hosting such an enjoyable evening and looks forward to another successful fundraising event on behalf of the MFA Program in the spring of 2014.
The MFA Program’s Reed Turchi spoke with The Oxford American Magazine:
As a college student at the University of North Carolina, Reed Turchi was a folklore student and an occasional musician, but the driving, rhythmic propulsion of the Hill Country blues grabbed ahold of him like no other music had before. He got a guitar for Christmas his sophomore year and he began to imitate the Fred McDowell licks his professor, renowned blues scholar Bill Ferris, introduced him to. He schooled himself on famous Hill Country blues players, mythic figures who were long gone.
“All I knew was that Fat Possum had stopped putting out records in that genre for the most part,” Reed says now. “R. L. Burnside was dead and his juke joint had burned down. Junior Kimbrough was dead and his juke joint had burned down. Otha Turner was dead. All of the main icons were gone, and the physical places where this music had been played were gone. I wanted to know what was going on other than the North Mississippi All-Stars.” He drove to Mississippi on his spare weekends in college, recording what he could but mostly “using folklore as an excuse to see what the hell was going on down there.”
Read the rest of the article online here.
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