Students in the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women will be on campus through June 2 for their Full Residency period, consisting of workshops, seminars and public readings by students, faculty and guest writers.
The public is invited to attend any and all of these evening readings, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Limbert Assembly Room of Cochran Hall on The W’s front campus.
Featured are poet Jeanie Thompson, author of “The Myth of Water: Poems from the life of Helen Keller,” who will read on Saturday and novelist Diana Spechler, author of the novels “Who by Fire” and “Skinny,” who will read on June 1.
Core MFA faculty will also read from recent work: Kendall Dunkelberg will read this Friday; Mary Miller, whose short story collection “Always Happy Hour” was published in 2017, will read on Sunday; and after a break for Memorial Day, Kris Lee will read on May 30.
The MFA program’s first thesis candidates will be featured on May 31. Tammie Rice will read from her memoir manuscript “These Stones I Carry,” and Beth Kander-Dauphin will read from her novel manuscript “Unshelved.”
For more information, contact Kendall Dunkelberg at 662-329-7169 or email [email protected].
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