Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing

MFA CREATIVE WRITING FACULTY NEWS AND EVENTS

Fall 2007

Congratulations to Jane Brox, winner of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship, and Cate Marvin, winner of a 2007 Whiting Writer's Award!

Readings & Events:

Teresa Cader
Tuesday, October 23, 11:30 a.m.
University of Massachusetts, Boston
UMass Boston Bookstore


Leah Hager Cohen
Thursday, October 18th, 7 p.m.
The Odyssey Bookshop
9 College St.
S. Hadley, MA 0107
Tel: 413-534-7307

Steven Cramer
December 15, 2007, 3:45 pm
Brockton Library Poetry Series (www.thinkworks.com/bps)
304 Main St.,  Brockton, MA
Contact: Philip Hasouris: soaringsky@aol.com


Rachel Kadish
will read on NPR's Hanukkah Lights 2007 program in December. Go to www.npr.org for local stations and times.


Michael Lowenthal
will read as part of the Four Stories Event: Love & Money: Tales of making it, having it, and losing it
October 1, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
The Enormous Room
567 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA


Anita Riggio
The play of her picture book, Beware the Brindlebeast, is going on tour with the National Theatre of the Deaf. For more information, see the NTD website or Anita's own website.
updated 12/07/07 | 03:45 PM

Highlights
  • Poets & Writers magazine names us in the top ten low-residency writing programs.
  • The Creative Writing MFA Handbook says we're one of "the more distinguished low-residency programs."
  • Charlene Donaghy's ('10) ten-minute play, “Who You Got to Believe,” is included in The Best American Short Plays (Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2011).
  • Michael Graves' ('07) collection of stories, Dirty One, is available from Chelsea Station Editions.
  • Melanie Henderson's ('10) Elegies for New York Avenue, won the 2011 Main Street Rag poetry award (Main Street Rag Press).
  • Sara Levine's ('06) picture book on vertebrates, What Kind of Animal Are You: Building Animals with Bones, will be published by Millbrook Press in fall 2013.
  • Scott Weems ('10) will publish Humorology, an exploration of the psychology and neuroscience of comedy and laughter, with Basic Books.

 

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