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CCWA Events

NEWS & EVENTS


Note: To receive periodic email updates about upcoming CCWA events, send a request to a_welden@uncg.edu with SUBSCRIBE CCWA in the subject line.


Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival
Wednesday, April 23 - Friday, April 25
UNCG Elliott Center and Faculty Center

The Second Annual Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival will take place Wednesday, April 23rd, through Friday, April 25th. Events include poetry and fiction readings (see below), a book fair, panel discussions, small press readings and workshops. Details are available on the Greensboro Review website at www.greensbororeview.org/2008litfestival/. For more information, contact Terry Kennedy or Mark Smith-Soto.


Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch

Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch poetry reading
Wednesday, April 23rd, 7:00pm
UNCG Faculty Center

The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the UNCG Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, the UNCG Alumni Association and Waccamaw will host a poetry reading by Kelly Cherry and Leigh Anne Couch on Wednesday, April 23rd at 7:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. A part of the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Kelly Cherry is the author of seventeen books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction (criticism, memoir, and essay), including the poetry collections God's Loud Hand, Death and Transfiguration, and Rising Venus. Eudora Welty Professor Emerita of English and Evjue-Bascom Professor Emerita in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, she lives with her husband on a small farm in Virginia.

A graduate of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, Leigh Anne Couch lives in Tennessee with her husband, Kevin Wilson, and is the managing editor of the Sewanee Review. She is the author of the poetry collections Houses Fly Away and Green and Helpless. Her poems have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah, 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, Blackbird, The Carolina Quarterly, and other journals. She has held residency fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts.

For more information about this event, contact Terry Kennedy.
Spill and Shinemaster

Michael Chitwood and Michael McFee poetry reading
Thursday, April 24th, 7:00pm
UNCG Faculty Center

The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the UNCG Center for Creative Writing in Arts, Poetry GSO, and Cave Wall will host a poetry reading by Michael Chitwood and Michael McFee on Thursday, April 24th at 7:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. A part of the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

Michael Chitwood is the author of eight poetry collections, including Spill, The Weave Room, Salt Works, From Whence, and Whet, as well as the essay collections Hitting below the Bible Belt and Finishing Touches. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Michael McFee is the author nine collections of poetry, including The Smallest Talk, Shinemaster, and Earthly, co-winner of the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary and Historical Society. He has also edited the anthologies This Is Where We Live: Short Stories by 25 Contemporary North Carolina Writers, and The Language They Speak Is Things to Eat: Poems by Fifteen Contemporary North Carolina Poets. He is a Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

For more information about this event, contact Terry Kennedy.

A. Van Jordan and Natasha Trethewey poetry reading
Friday, April 25th, 7:00pm
UNCG Elliott Center Auditorium

The Greensboro Review in conjunction with the UNCG Center for Creative Writing in Arts, Poetry GSO, and The North Carolina Arts Council will host a poetry reading by A. Van Jordan and Natasha Trethewey on Friday, April 25th at 7:00 pm in the Elliott University Center Auditorium. A part of the 2nd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine and Small Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.

A. Van Jordan is the author of three collections of poetry: Rise, winner of the 2002 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, winner of the Whiting Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award; and Quantum Lyrics. He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. He teaches at the University of Texas at Austin and serves on the faculty at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC.

Natasha Trethewey is the author of three collections of poetry: Domestic Work, winner of the inaugural 1999 Cave Canem poetry prize, a 2001 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, and the 2001 Lillian Smith Award for Poetry; Bellocq’s Ophelia, which received the 2003 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Book Prize, was a finalist for both the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin and Lenore Marshall prizes, and was named a 2003 Notable Book by the American Library Association; and Native Guard, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bunting Fellowship Program of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and the National Endowment for the Arts. The 2005-2006 Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professor of Documentary and American Studies at Duke University & The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Trethewey is currently the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair Professor of Poetry at Emory University in Atlanta, GA.

For more information about this event, contact Terry Kennedy.


North Carolina Writers' Network Spring Conference
Saturday, April 26
UNCG Elliott Center

The North Carolina Writers' Network Spring Conference will be held on April 26th at the UNCG Elliott Center. This all-day event features workshops in poetry, fiction, nonfiction, screenwriting and playwriting, as well as a publishers' panel. Poet Linda Gregg will give the keynote address, which will be followed by faculty readings and a book signing. The keynote address and faculty readings are free and open to the public. For workshop registration and more information about all these events, go to www.ncwriters.org or call the North Carolina Writers' Network at 704-246-6314.


 

Spring 2008 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: MFA Program at UNCG