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MFA for Writers Winter Residency Public Events

Readings & Lectures

MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

Public Schedule – January 2019

 

With a schedule that includes national bestsellers and several Guggenheim fellows, the nationally-renowned Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers will hold a series of public readings and lectures from January 3 – 12, 2019 at the Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, North Carolina.

The nationally-recognized faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

encompass a range of aesthetics in poetry and fiction and include Pulitzer and National Book Award winners, national and state poets laureate, and NEA, Guggenheim, Fulbright, and MacArthur fellows. Residency lectures and readings in fiction and poetry are free and open to the public.

The MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College is the nation’s premier low-residency MFA program in creative writing, established in 1976 by poet and teacher Ellen Bryant Voigt. This rigorous and highly-selective four-semester graduate program, with study tracks in fiction and poetry, combines ten-day residencies on campus each January and July with five-month nonresident semesters in which students work individually with the country’s finest fiction writers and poets.

 

MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College

Public Lecture and Reading Series – January 2019

All events listed below are free and open to the public. Events last approximately one hour.

PLEASE NOTE: The winter residency will be held at Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, NC, not on the Warren Wilson College campus.

Location: Region Room of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. 84 Blue Ridge Circle; Black Mountain, NC 28711.

Further Details:

The schedule may be subject to change. Please check www.friendsofwriters.org for updates.

Full schedule and lecture descriptions: http://www.wwcmfa.org/public-schedule-released-for-mfa-winter-2019-residency/

MFA Program Faculty Bios: http://www.wwcmfa.org/faculty-2/

For more information, call the MFA Office: (828)771-3715

 

READINGS by FACULTY – January 2019

Readings will begin at 8:15 PM in the Region Room of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. 84 Blue Ridge Circle; Black Mountain, NC 28711.

Thursday, January 3 Reginald Gibbons, Jane Hamilton, T. Geronimo Johnson, Pablo Medina, Sarah Stone

Friday, January 4 Liam Callanan, Rodney Jones, Christine Kitano, Antonya Nelson, Martha Rhodes

Saturday, January 5 Daisy Fried, C. J. Hribal, Marisa Silver, Dominic Smith, Connie Voisine

Sunday, January 6 Hanna Pylväinen, Alan Shapiro, Anna Solomon, Daniel Tobin, Laura van den Berg

Monday, January 7 Dean Bakopoulos, Robert Boswell, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Maurice Manning; tribute to Tony Hoagland

 

READINGS by GRADUATING STUDENTS – January 2019

Readings will begin at 8:15 PM (unless otherwise noted) in the Region Room of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. 84 Blue Ridge Circle; Black Mountain, NC 28711.

Wednesday, January 9 Faith Gómez Clark, Timur Karaca. Phuong Anh Le, Elizabeth Mayer, Aaron Strumwasser

Thursday, January 10 Lily Chiu-Watson, Cecille Marcato, Hannah Torres Peet, Sea Stachura, Candace Walsh

Friday, January 11 Sarah Audsley, Michael Feigin, Jodie Free, Annabella Johnson, Sonja Srinivasan, Kelsy Yates

Saturday, January 12 ~ 4:30 PM, followed by Graduation Ceremony Lillian Huang Cummins, Alyson Dutemple, Angel Nafis, Hieu Minh Nguyen, Rachel Wolff

 

LECTURES by FACULTY – January 2019

All lectures will be in the Region Room of Blue Ridge Center at Blue Ridge Assembly. 84 Blue Ridge Circle; Black Mountain, NC 28711.

 

Friday, January 4th – 11:15am

DEAN BAKOPOUOS ~ What is Your Life?: On the Uncertainty Ahead

 

Saturday, January 5th – 9:30am

SARAH STONE ~ Eruption/Incandescence

 

Saturday, January 5th – 10:45am

CHRISTINE KITANO ~ The Poetics of Witness

 

Sunday, January 6th – 9:30am

PABLO MEDINA ~ What are We Reading, the Poem or the Translation?

 

Sunday, January 6th – 10:45am

MARISA SILVER ~ The Mind of a Child

 

Monday, January 7th – 11:00am

C.J. HRIBAL ~ You Want It Darker: Grappling with the Dark in Poetry and Fiction

 

Friday, January 11th – 9:30am

ALAN SHAPIRO ~ Mark Twain and the Ambiguities of Expertise

 

Friday, January 11th – 10:45am

ROBERT BOSWELL ~ Reinventing Revision: How Changing the Way You Think about Revision May Breathe Life into Comatose Work

 

Saturday, January 12th – 9:30am

JANE HAMILTON ~ In Praise of No Big Idea

 

Friday, January 12th – 10:45am

MAURICE MANNING ~ 17 o’clock: Reading and Writing Beyond the Self