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A KITE IN THE WIND: AVAILABLE NOW


This year marks the 35th anniversary of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, the nation's first low-residency MFA program, as well as the publication of the fifth anthology of essays by members of its faculty, A Kite in the Wind: Fiction Writers on their Craft. Edited by Andrea Barrett and former MFA director Peter Turchi, the anthology gathers essays by Maud Casey, Stacey D'Erasmo, Anthony Doerr, Kevin McIlvoy, and fifteen others. Each of the essays were presented as lectures during recent Warren Wilson MFA residencies.

"Get it, read it, shelve it--along with its companion volumes--next to Nabokov's Lectures on Literature and O'Connor's Mystery and Manners."

--David Wroblewski
Warren Wilson MFA, Class of 1998

All editors and contributors donate 100% of  anthology royalties to the Friends of Writers scholarship funds.  Read more about A Kite In the Wind and other FOW anthologies here.
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2012 Levis Prize of $10,000 Awarded

Congratulations to Justin Gardiner, recipient of the 2012 Levis Post-Graduate Stipend. Judge Mary Szybist said of his manuscript, "I am thrilled to be able to select this outstanding poet for particular recognition and support."  He will receive $10,000 for his first book of poetry, awarded by Friends of Writers.

The Larry Levis Post-Graduate Fellowship supports an alum of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers producing his or her first book. The $10,000 Fellowship will be awarded once every two years, and will alternate between poetry and fiction.

 
 
The Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers Turns 35

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On June 29, nearly 200 alumni, currently-enrolled students, and past and present faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College gathered on the campus to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the nation's first low-residency MFA program. This summer also marked our Program's 30th anniversary at Warren Wilson, having relocated there from Goddard College in 1981. The Gala provided the culmination of the annual Alumni Conference and a chance to include others in the lively conversations, the deep sense of community, and the renewal of commitment to our art. The slogan on T-shirts, tote bags, and coffee mugs was an appropriate one: Write Revise Dance Repeat.

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Newest Beebe Fellow

rachel-howard We're pleased to announce that the Joan Beebe Fellow for 2011-2012 is Rachel Howard. Rachel graduated from the Program in fiction in July 2009 and is the author of a memoir, The Lost Night: A Daughter's Search for the Truth of her Father's Murder (Dutton, 2005). She has been a dance critic for the San Francisco Chronicle and has taught writing classes for many years through the San Francisco Writers Grotto. She'll be teaching composition and creative writing courses to Warren Wilson undergraduates, and will lead the residency class in January.

Catherine Reid, director of Warren Wilson's undergraduate writing program, expressed the College's delight at Rachel's range and preparation for this role. "We're delighted to have the multi-talented Rachel Howard as this year's Beebe Fellow. In addition to her strengths in fiction and nonfiction, she's also a dance critic and book reviewer, all evidence of the kind of writer's life that so fascinates our undergraduates."

Offered annually, the Beebe Graduate Teaching Fellowship is a one-year non-renewable teaching position at Warren Wilson, available to all alumni of the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers, including those who received the degree during the years the program was at Goddard College. Some teaching experience is required. Guidelines for the 2012-13 Beebe Fellow applications have been posted.

 

 

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