CAMPUS MAP The UNCW Department of Creative Writing Presents WRITERS’ WEEK 2019 Readings Monday, Nov. 4 Craft Talks - Friday, Publishing FSC Lumina Theater Professionals FUU Fisher University Union Nov. 8 /crw.uncw @uncwcrw Alumni Guests WRITERS’ WEEK2019 THE UNCW DEPARTMENT OF CREATIVE WRITING is a community of passionate, dedicated writers who believe that the creation of art is a pursuit valuable to self and culture. Our faculty fosters a rigorous yet supportive environment in which writers grow as artists and individuals. The department is devoted to the pursuit of excellence in writing through an informed application of craft. We value versatility, and we encourage writers to explore aesthetics and methods across genre lines. The department offers degree programs leading to the Master of Fine Arts and the Bachelor of Fine Arts, in addition to an undergraduate Certificate in Publishing. Our primary genres are fiction, poetry, and creative non fiction; classes in screenwriting are also available, as is the study of editing and publishing through The Pub lishing Laboratory. Each fall the department hosts a Writers’ Week symposium, a festival of workshops, panels, readings, and manuscript conferences. Writers’ Week brings together graduate students, undergraduate students, and the community interested in the art of writing to promote the discussion of craft. We invite our students, faculty, and guests to join together for our fall 2019 Writers’ Week. Prepare to be delighted, challenged, and inspired as we welcome a distinguished group of poets, prose writers, and publishing professionals into our midst once more. All events are free and open to the public. For more information on Writers’ Week, or to learn more about the UNCW creative writing program, contact the office at (910) 962-3070 or visit uncw.edu/writers. SCHEDULE MON 4 NOV TUES 5 NOV WED 6 NOV THURS 7 NOV FRI 8 NOV 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 10:00 Writing Exercises Craft Talk - Poetry Craft Talk - CNF Craft Talk - Poetry Craft Talk - Fiction 3 genres George David Clark Inara Verzemnieks Tomás Q. Morín Ayana Mathis Steph Beckner, & Morning Hannah Horn, Katie Farris 11:30 EJ Schwartz Q&A with MFA students Ayana Mathis (Enrollment full) * 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 12:30 Faculty Panel Literary Agent Talk Publishing Panel Literary Editor Talk Alumni Panel & Literary Citizenship Anna Stein moderated by Morgan Davis Beth Staples Reading moderated by Chris Sturdy Cameron Dezen The Writing Life Melissa Crowe, Hammon, moderated by Lindsay Lake Sayantani Dasgupta, Emily Smith, Adam Gnuse, Clyde Edgerton, Beth Staples Katie O’Reilly, David Gessner, Leah Poole Osowski, Melody Moezzi Eric Tran Afternoon 2:00 2:00 2:00 2:00 Phil Furia Tribute Craft Talk - CNF Craft Talk - Fiction BFA Reading Cameron Dezen Etaf Rum Hammon 3:00 Ecotone Book Arts Workshop Laurie Corral (Enrollment full) * 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 Ecotone Book Launch & Reading Buckner Keynote Evening Broadside Launch Reading Tomás Q. Morín Ayana Mathis & Reading Cameron Dezen & George David Clark Hammon & Etaf Rum All events in Azalea Coast Room & Katie Farris, Inara Verzemnieks A&B, Fisher University Union with printer Laurie @ unless otherwise noted; @Lumina Theater @Lumina Theater Lumina Theater *Location TBD for enrolled guests Corral through email WRITERS Ayana Mathis’s New York Times bestselling debut, The Clyde Edgerton is a writer and professor living in Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf, 2012), was selected as the Wilmington with his family. He has published ten second book for the Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and as a Best novels and two books of nonfiction. He has received a Book of the Year in 2013 by the New York Times, the Boston Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lyndhurst Prize. Five Globe, and NPR. Mathis’s nonfiction has been published of his novels have received New York Times notable book in the New York Times, the Financial Times, the New Yorker, awards. He has been banned from New Hanover county Brick, and Glamour. She is the first Black woman to be a schools for three years. Buckner permanent member of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop faculty, Keynote where she teaches English and creative writing. She is at Speaker work on her second novel. Katie Farris is the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls (Marick Press, 2011; Tupelo Press 2019), lauded as “truly innovative” by the Prague Post, and George David Clark’s Reveille (Arkansas, 2015) won the as “a tour de force” by Robert Coover. She is also author Miller Williams Prize and his recent poems can be found of the chapbooks Thirteen Intimacies (Fivehundred Places, in AGNI, the Georgia Review, the Gettysburg Review, Ecotone, 2017), and Mother Superior in Hell (Dancing Girl, 2019). Her the Southern Review, and elsewhere. The editor of 32 Poems, work has appeared in literary journals including Poetry, he teaches creative writing at Washington and Jefferson the Believer, and the Massachusetts Review. She is the co- College and lives in western Pennsylvania with his wife translator of several books of poetry, including Gossip and their four young children. and Metaphysics: Russian Modernist Poems and Prose. She is currently Associate Professor of Literature, Media, and Communication at Georgia Institute of Technology. Melissa Crowe is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). Her poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming David Gessner is the founder of Ecotone magazine and in Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Seneca Review, the author of ten books of nonfiction, including New York Tupelo Quarterly, and Poetry, among others. She's editor Times bestseller All the Wild That Remains (W.W. Norton, of Beloit Poetry Journal and coordinator of the MFA 2015) and The Tarball Chronicles, (Milkweed, 2011) the 2012 program at UNCW, where she teaches courses in poetry Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. and publishing. In 2006 his work appeared in The Pushcart Prize; in 2007 he won the John Burroughs Award for Best Natural History Essay. His work has appeared in many magazines and Sayantani Dasgupta is the author of Fire Girl: Essays journals including the New York Times Magazine, the Boston on India, America, & the In-Between (Two Sylvias Press, Globe, Outside, the Georgia Review, the Harvard Review, and 2016)—a Finalist for the Foreword Indies Awards for Orion. In 2016 he was the host of National Geographic’s Creative Nonfiction—and the chapbookThe House of Nails: Explorer TV show, Call of the Wild. Memories of a New Delhi Childhood (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016). Her writings have appeared in several national and international publications such as the Rumpus, the Bellingham Review, and the Hindu. She teaches in the MFA program at UNCW, and has also taught in India, Italy, and Mexico. Cameron Dezen Hammon’s writing appears in The Emily Smith is director of the Publishing Laboratory Kiss anthology from W. W. Norton, Catapult, Ecotone, and co-founder and publisher of Lookout Books and its the Literary Review, the Houston Chronicle, and NYLON, sister magazine, Ecotone. She teaches Introduction to among other places, and was noted in The Best American Book Publishing, Bookbuilding, Publishing Practicum, Essays 2017. She hosts The Ish podcast, conversations the Business of Being a Writer, and various special topics from the liminal spaces of life, and co-founded The Slant courses in publishing. reading series. She earned an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University and is a writer-in-residence for Writers in the Schools in Houston, where she lives with her Inara Verzemnieks is the author of the award-winning family. This Is My Body (Lookout, 2019) is her debut book. memoir, Among the Living and the Dead: A Tale of Exile and Homecoming (W.W. Norton., 2017). Her work has appeared in The Pushcart Prize anthology and is the recipient of a Melody Moezzi is an Iranian-American Muslim author, Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award, as well as a finalist for the attorney, and activist—as well as a visiting assistant Pulitzer Prize in feature writing, she previously worked as professor of creative writing at UNCW this year. Her a newspaper journalist for thirteen years. Her essays and next book, The Rumi Prescription: How an Ancient Mystic journalism have appeared in such publications as the New Poet Changed My Modern Manic Life, will be released this York Times Magazine, Tin House, and the Iowa Review. She spring from an imprint of Penguin Random House and is is an assistant professor in the University of Iowa’s currently available for pre-order. She is a United Nations Nonfiction Writing Program. Global Expert and an Opinion Leader for the British Council’s Our Shared Future initiative. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Washington Post, and many other outlets. Tomás Q. Morín is the author of Patient Zero (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) and A Larger Country (American Poetry Review, 2012), winner of the APR/Honickman Prize. He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu and with Mari L’Esperance co-edited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine. He teaches at Drew University and in the low residency MFA program of Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, he is the Visiting Writer-in- Residence at Texas Tech University. Etaf Rum, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She has a MA in American and British Literature as well as undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and English Composition and teaches undergraduate courses in North Carolina. A Woman is No Man (Harper Collins, 2019) is her first novel. PUBLISHING PROFESSIONALS ALUMNI Anna Stein opened and ran the New York office of Aitken Adam Gnuse is a graduate of UNCW’s MFA program.