By Michelle Hines, University Relations
UNCG salutes two milestones in the arts with a May 4 reception.
The reception, organized by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program, celebrates the inauguration of UNCG’s new Center for Creative Writing in the Arts and the 40th anniversary of The Greensboro Review.
The reception is open to creative writers and anyone interested in creative writing, said Center Director Mark Smith-Soto. It runs from 5-8 p.m. in the Virginia Dare Room, the Alumni House.
The Center, approved by UNCG’s Board of Trustees last November, serves as a focal point for artists at the university and within the larger Greensboro arts community. Fostering all of the arts, from screenwriting to poetry, it sponsors workshops and seminars and supports arts publications such as The Greensboro Review and The International Poetry Review.
The Greensboro Review, now in its 40th year, is a literary magazine that has been praised for its prose and poetry. Past contributors have included poet Fred Chappell, novelist Michael Parker, and many others. Past staff members include the likes of Claudia Emerson, an alumna of the MFA Writing Program who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Works from the journal, which is published as part of the MFA Writing Program, have been consistently anthologized or cited in the Pushcart Prize, New Stories from the South, Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and other collections honoring new writing.
For more information about the reception, contact Mark Smith-Soto at 336-334-5655 or mismiths@uncg.edu.
