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Cameron Barnett Reading at West Virginia Wesleyan College, July 2019 from 2020-06-01T22:03:04
Cameron Barnett Reading from "The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water" at the West Virginia Wesleyan College MFA Residency, July 2019. Introduced by Dr. Devon McNamara.
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Feminine Rising Reading at WVWC-MFA, July 11, 2019 from 2019-09-06T17:35:42
A reading from the new anthology "Feminine Rising", edited by Lara Lillibridge and Andrea Fekete, and featuring contributors Rachel Hicks, Cheryl Denise Miller, Tuesday Taylor and Jessica Spruill W...
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Belle Boggs Reading from "The Gulf", Introduced by Julia Kastner from 2019-08-01T15:55:09
Recording of Belle Boggs reading from her novel, "The Gulf" during the summer residency of the West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Residency MFA Program. Introduced by Julia Kastner.
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Diane Gilliam reading six poems from 2019-03-26T15:27:43
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency
Guest poetry faculty member Diane Gilliam reads six new poems from her new project for the Visiting Writers Series.
Catherine Venable Moore reading her essay "O Beulah Land" from 2019-03-02T23:49:06
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency
Guest nonfiction faculty member Catherine Venable Moore reads her essay "O Beulah Land" for the Visiting Writers Series. Read Catherine's full essay online...
Matthew Ferrence: "Big Hair Rock Fills" from 2019-01-30T14:18:20
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency
"Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story." --M.F.
Guest nonfiction faculty Matthew Ferrence discusses how to structure emotional shift...
Steve Scafidi: "Use & Uselessness: The Lyric Spectrum" from 2019-01-14T13:51:04
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency
"Nonsense is the gateway back to pleasure." --SS
Guest poet Steve Scafidi discusses "how to survive, how to persist" as a writer. Scafidi joined u...
Nathan Poole reading his short story "Open Season" from 2018-11-12T03:02:34
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency
"The thing that I love about metaphor is that's when you know you're with another person...when you're reading something and you encounter a metaphor that ...
Jon Corcoran: "Ringing the Bell: Crafting Endings That Resonate" from 2018-10-03T14:16:24
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency
Endings don't stand alone; we must lay groundwork for them throughout our stories. Corcoran discusses how to achieve an ending that is "inevitable but surp...
Richard Schmitt: "Crafting Dialog" from 2018-09-06T00:44:09
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency
“When do you let the characters speak? When you can't stop them." -- Prose writer Richard Schmitt
This lecture discusses “Bliss” by Katherine Mans...
Remica Bingham-Risher: "Mining the Spark" from 2018-08-14T16:58:44
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency
“Research helps us avoid historical erasure." -- Poet Remica Bingham-Risher
This lecture discusses work by Ocean Vuong, Natasha Trethewey, Patrici...
Mesha Maren reading from her debut novel "Sugar Run" from 2018-04-30T19:07:18
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
Guest faculty Mesha Maren reads from her debut novel forthcoming from Algonquin Books in January 2019. The novel follows the story of Jody after her releas...
Jonathan Corcoran: "Writing the Body" from 2018-03-28T16:33:44
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
"Sometimes the things that we are most familiar with...are the things that we've lost the ability to elucidate." --JC, guest prose faculty
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Jacinda Townsend reading new fiction from 2018-02-28T15:22:41
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2018 Residency
"So I started this novel that's asking the question, 'How do we deal with grief?'" --JT
Guest faculty Jacinda Townsend, author of "Saint Monkey" (...
Laurie Jean Cannady reading from "Crave: Sojourn of a Hungry Soul" from 2018-02-01T00:47:20
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2018 Residency
"I wrote about these traumas because I didn't want anyone else who might go through them to feel like they were alone." -- LJC
Guest memoirist Lau...
Rebecca Gayle Howell reading from "American Purgatory" from 2018-01-17T01:35:31
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2018 Residency
"We write the same story over and over again...until we write our way out of the story." -- RGH
Guest poet Rebecca Gayle Howell reads a selection ...
Mary Carroll-Hackett reading from "Death for Beginners" from 2017-11-29T00:07:18
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
"They say Make a bowl of your heart." -- MCH
Guest faculty member Mary Carroll-Hackett reads a selection of poems for the Visiting Writers Series ...
Jason Howard: "The Necessity of Speculation in Creative Nonfiction" from 2017-10-31T14:54:35
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
“Speculation is not factual claim; it’s conjecture based on research, observation, and instinct.” -- Jason Howard, guest writer partially funded by a grant...
Rodney Jones: "Writing Poetry in Alternative Points of View" from 2017-10-03T14:47:07
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
“Fiction runs naturally against stereotype, poetry should too, to work against the righteousness in yourself." -- Poet Rodney Jones
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Mesha Maren: "What Is Light Without Dark?" from 2017-09-06T16:23:19
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
“Plot can be more unsettling than argument which can be answered.” In her summer lecture "What Is Light Without Dark?: Using Thematic Contrast to Build Nar...
Yuri Herrera: "Decentering & Estrangement" (referencing Las Meninas by Velázquez) from 2017-08-25T00:49:30
WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency
“Avoid being hostages of literariness.” -- Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera (This lecture discusses the painting “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez.)
Karen Salyer McElmurray reading her essay "Hand-Me-Down" from 2017-07-03T17:16:25
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
Karen Salyer McElmurray reading nonfiction in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council
Text of this award-winn...
Marie Manilla reading her new essay "Arrows" from 2017-06-02T16:32:18
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
Marie Manilla reading nonfiction in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council
Text of the essay available onlin...
Nickole Brown reading from "Fanny Says" from 2017-04-03T00:44:15
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
Nickole Brown reading from FANNY SAYS in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council
Katie Fallon: "Writing Ecology" from 2017-03-09T16:11:20
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
“Get in the creek.” -- Katie Fallon, author of the newly released "Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird" (University Press of New England)
Jaimy Gordon: "Alternative Narrative Strategies" from 2017-02-20T02:03:51
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
“All form comes down to two gestures: list (thing, thing, thing…), sheer muchness and variation; and refrain (message that recurs). Modular form suggests b...
Diane Gilliam: "Once Upon a Time Last Tuesday: The Power of Fairy Tales" from 2017-01-20T18:45:27
WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency
“You cannot go cheap with your work.” -- Diane Gilliam