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NEWS

  • NCSU offers anMFA in Creative Writing. Applications are being accepted for Fall 2009 admission (deadline April 1, 2008, but it's best to apply soon after January, particularly if you want funding).

  • Concentration in creative writing now available for undergraduate English majors.

  • Minor in Creative Writing now available.

  • Summer Workshop in Prague, in the Czech Republic. Due to appalling exchange rates, this program is on hiatus for 2009... unless twelve creative writers sign up, rearin' to go. When the dollar improves, we will reinstate the two-week creative writing workshop at NC State's Prague campus, specializing in writing Magic Realist fiction, and reading the most original of Eastern European authors.

OUR MFAs IN PRINT:

Lots of our MFAs on the shelves lately... consider Therese Fowler's SOUVENIR (Spring 2008, Ballantine Books) with her follow-up, REUNION, due soon. For some superb short stories, there's Amy Knox Brown's (mostly) Nebraskan tales, THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH (Fall 2007, Press 53), called by Booklist, "a vibrant debut collection."

This fall, Harper's Perennial publishes the cutting edge novel BEING WRITTEN by William Conescu. Writes Publisher's Weekly, "Conescu's light, swift and nicely structures dark comedy puts to the test a character's ability to outwrite his own author. In the end, the author wins."  William will be reading from his novel at Quail Ridge Books (the shopping center at Wade Avenue and Ridge Road) at 7 p.m., Wednesday, September 24th.

FACULTY NEWS

New titles by our MFA faculty include John Balaban's PATH, CROOKED PATH (Copper Canyon, 2006). Writes the Harvard Review, "Balaban's emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human-by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic. His voice is strong; his poems are important."

John Kessel's THE BAUM PLAN FOR FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE (Small Beer Press, 2008) collects ten years worth of speculative, sci-fi and literary fiction from this Nebula and Tiptree-award winning author. Also, keep an eye out for John Kessel's and Jim Kelly's wildly popular and important anthologies of "Slipstream Fiction," FEELING VERY STRANGE (Tachyon, 2006) and REWIRED: THE POST-CYBERPUNK ANTHOLOGY (Tachyon, 2007).

Also, keep in mind our long-time Visiting Poet Betty Adcock's sixth and latest book of poetry, SLANTWISE (LSU Press, 2008)!