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Graduate Student Notes for February 2021

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Creative Writing professor with two MFA students.

Mar 25, 2026

MFA in Creative Writing Program Turns 20

The MFA in Creative Writing program is commemorating its 20th anniversary with a series of events highlighting how it has influenced writers and communities over two decades.
Maggie Thompson in her graduation cap and gown, standing in front of Holladay Hall

May 1, 2024

Learning on the Job

Maggie Thompson, the chancellor’s communication specialist, will receive her Master of Science degree in technical communication at commencement this weekend.

Dec 7, 2023

“Volya”

In Ukrainian, the word means “will.” Darya Levchenko ’19 MA and her fight to preserve the arts embody that spirit of Ukraine’s people.

Mar 1, 2024

English Graduate Student News, February 2024

Kacey Cooper (MA candidate in Rhetoric and Composition) organized a public event to celebrate the anniversary of poet Langston Hughes’s 1949 trip to Wilson. Her “Hughes in Wilson, NC” was both previewed and covered extensively by The Wilson Times. The event covered all the locations Hughes visited and featured poetry readings, musical performances, and historical presentations from Cooper as well as…

Mar 1, 2024

English Graduate Student News, February 2024

Kacey Cooper (MA candidate in Rhetoric and Composition) organized a public event to celebrate the anniversary of poet Langston Hughes’s 1949 trip to Wilson. Her “Hughes in Wilson, NC” was both previewed and covered extensively by The Wilson Times. The event covered all the locations Hughes visited and featured poetry readings, musical performances, and historical presentations from Cooper as well as…

Jul 1, 2023

Graduate Student News for May & June 2023

David Palko has accepted a position in the PhD program in English at Duke University. This summer, he will attend the University of Virginia’s Rare Book School to participate in a seminar on Law Books: History and Connoisseurship, which will be held at Yale Law School. Palko presented a paper at the New Visions of…

Apr 19, 2023

Behind the Camera

Film studies alumnus Kieran Moreira’s path to a picture-perfect career started at NC State and led to professional success creating videos for tech companies and indie films.

Sep 28, 2021

“Community Matters Here”: Inside NC State’s Creative Writing MFA Program

NC State’s MFA in Creative Writing program is devoted to tangible creative output and is informed by a mixture of classroom instruction, peer support and faculty mentorship.

Jul 8, 2021

Second-Year MA in Rhetoric and Composition Student, Lydia Elrod, Awarded the Witherspoon Fellowship 2021!

Lydia Elrod was awarded the prestigious Witherspoon Fellowship Award, which is awarded to students who have demonstrated experience in or a commitment to supporting Black communities within and beyond NC State’s campus.

Mar 1, 2021

Graduate Student Notes for February 2021

Sarah Nollenberger (MA, Literature) presented “‘To donate to the world a good Maud Martha’: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Romantic Imagination” at the 31st Annual Online EGSA Mardi Gras Conference at LSU: Uncertain Futures: Exploring Ambiguities, Hopes and Anxieties, which took place February 10–12.  Isaac Green (MFA) won the 2021 Jacobs/Jones African-American Literary Prize for his short story “Fifteens.” In addition, he…