Center for Creative Writing in the Arts
NEWS & EVENTS
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MFA Open Mic
Friday, April 3, 7:00 pm
Tate Street Coffee, Greensboro
The English Graduate Student's Association (EGSA) at UNC Greensboro will be hosting a poetry open mic for the the students in UNCG's MFA program on Friday, April 3 at 7:00 in Tate Street Coffee. The EGSA invites all to come and listen to what the graduate poetry students have to offer!
Tate Street Coffee is located at 334 Tate Street, Greensboro. The event is free and open to the public.
Kathy Flann and Al Maginess Fiction and Poetry Reading
Wednesday, April 22, 7:00pm
UNCG Faculty Center
The Greensboro Review, in conjunction with The UNCG Center for Creative Writing in the Arts, Spring Garden Press and PoetryGSO, will host a fiction & poetry reading by Kathy Flann and Al Maginnes on Wednesday, April 22nd at 7:00 pm in the UNCG Faculty Center on College Avenue. A part of the 3rd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine & Independent Press Festival, the event is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Kathy Flann's fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Quarterly West, The North American Review, The Barcelona Review, Yemassee, The Adirondack Review, Blackbird, The Del Sol Review, The Texas Review, The O. Henry Festival Stories, and New Stories from the South. Her short story collection, Smoky Ordinary, won the 2008 Serena MacDonald Kennedy Award and was published by Snake Nation Press. A story entitled "Mad Dog" won the 2007 AE Coppard Award for Long Fiction and was published as a chapbook by White Eagle Coffee Store Press. An MFA graduate from UNC-Greensboro, she served as fiction editor of The Greensboro Review.
Al Maginnes’s most recent collections are Ghost Alphabet, which won the 2008 White Pine Poetry Prize, Dry Glass Blues, a single long poem published as a chapbook by Pudding House Press in 2007, and Film History (Word Tech Editions 2005). He has poems appearing or forthcoming in Tar River Review, Southern Poetry Review, American Literary Review, Terminus, Green Mountains Review, Cave Wall, and Grist.
3rd Annual Spring Southeastern Literary Mag & Independent Press Festival
August 21-25
UNC Greensboro, Greensboro, NC
The Spring Southeastern Literary Magazine & Independent Press Festival is an annual event that honors North Carolina's rich literary heritage and brings some of America's finest editors & writers to our state. The five days of free literary happenings are open to the public and we hope you'll join us as we celebrate book culture and promote reading & literacy.
To view a schedule of readings, click here.
Fall 2008 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: MFA Program at UNCG