New Works
Michael Parker’s latest novel receives Booklist starred review
March 5, 2019
Joan Curbow’s Booklist starred review of Prairie Fever, coming May 2019 from Algonquin Books, applauds Parker’s new work as a “chimerical slipstream of a novel.” https://www.workman.com/products/prairie-fever
Learn MoreAlumna Jamey Bradbury on her new novel and UNCG experience
April 25, 2018
Author Jamey Bradbury, whose debut novel The Wild Inside was released last month by William Morrow, talks about her experience in Greensboro: “UNCG was absolutely essential to my development as a writer.” http://www.greensboro.com/go_triad/arts/books/new-author-uncg-was-absolutely-essential-to-my-development-as/article_a1679f39-ab8f-5276-9f83-bfe803b378a1.html
Learn MoreEmpty Clip: Poetry Collection by Emilia Phillips Available for Pre-Order
February 15, 2018
The third poetry collection by Emilia Phillips, faculty member at the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, is now available for pre-order from University of Akron Press: http://www.uakron.edu/uapress/browse-books/book-details/index.dot?id=71fe05ca-8642-4380-bcfa-cf5cad806213
Learn MoreTin House Interview with Michael Parker
January 14, 2018
Greensboro writer Michael Parker talks about his new collection of flash fiction, Everything, Then and Since, over at Tin House: http://tinhouse.com/truly-brutally-alive-interview-michael-parker/
Learn MoreThe Bright Hour by Nina Riggs featured in New York Times
December 31, 2017
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying, from MFA Writing Program alumna Nina Riggs, is highlighted as “one of the most helpful” non-self-help books of the year from the New York Times Book Review: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/21/books/review/best-self-help.html
Learn MoreThe Salt Line: Holly Goddard Jones on Her New Novel
October 1, 2017
Holly Goddard Jones, fiction faculty at the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro, talks about her post-apocalyptic novel The Salt Line over at Fiction Writers Review and Paste: http://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/facing-the-scary-thing-in-the-dark-an-interview-with-holly-goddard-jones/ & https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/09/the-salt-line-holly-goddard-jones.html
Learn MoreStuart Dischell Releases New Collection of Poetry
September 18, 2017
Children with Enemies, the fifth full-length poetry collection from MFA Writing Program at Greensboro poet Stuart Dischell, is now available from the University of Chicago Press: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo27035261.html
Learn MoreNPR Reviews Travis Mulhauser’s “Electrifying” Debut Novel
February 16, 2016
Sweetgirl, MFA alum Travis Mulhauser’s debut novel from Ecco/Harper Collins, is “hilarious, heartbreaking and true,” according to NPR: https://www.npr.org/2016/02/02/463861284/a-blizzard-meth-and-a-missing-mom-make-sweetgirl-a-harrowing-read
Learn More“The Americans”: Poetry Collection by David Roderick Available for Pre-Order
May 17, 2014
“The Americans,” the latest collection from MFA Writing Program at Greensboro poet David Roderick is now available for pre-order from the Pitt Poetry Series: http://www.upress.pitt.edu/BookDetails.aspx?bookId=36550
Learn More“Thoughts Fold Into Birds”: New Poetry Collection by Julie Funderburk
May 15, 2014
Happy Pub to MFA Writing Program at Greensboro alum Julie Funderburk! Her poetry collection “Thoughts Fold Into Birds” is now available from Unicorn Press: http://www.unicorn-press.org/books/Funderburk-Thoughts-to-Fold-into-Birds.html
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