About this Event
This year's low residency MFA in creative writing summer residency will be held online Saturday, July 24 – Friday, July 30. Please join us for one or more of these exciting events!
Together with talks and readings by the core faculty (Lee Martin, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Hoa Nguyen, Hugh Sheehy, and Laura Van Prooyen) there will be talks and readings by prose writer Hilary Plum, poet Eugene Gloria and prose writer Nick White.
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SATURDAY, JULY 24
10-10:45 am | Talk: Nick White: "Building Character: A Writer Prepares"
2:45-3:30 pm | Talk: Hoa Nguyen: “On Sonnets.”
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Nick White
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SUNDAY, JULY 25
10-10:45 am | Talk: Eugene Gloria: “The True Narrative: A Craft Talk on Associative Leaps”
2:45-3:30 pm | Talk: Lee Martin: “"A Straightforward Look at Irony."
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Eugene Gloria
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MONDAY, JULY 26
10-10:45 am | Talk: Hugh Sheehy: “A Little Less Conversation, a Little More Action: Dialogue and Dramatic Writing”
2:45-3:30 | Reading: Jacquelyn Mitchard
4-6:15 pm | Final Project Readings and Q&A: Hinton, Lindenfeld, Shupert, Toland, Ziph
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TUESDAY, JULY 27
10-10:45 am | Talk: Hilary Plum: “Approaching Fact: Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Role of the Reader”
2:45-3:30 pm | Reading: Lee Martin
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Hilary Plum
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 28
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Laura Van Prooyen
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THURSDAY, JULY 29
11:15 am-12:15 pm | Talk: Jacquelyn Mitchard: “Naming the Baby: The Power of a Powerful Title”
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Hugh Sheehy
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FRIDAY, JULY 30
11:15 am-12:15 pm | Talk: Laura Van Prooyen: “When The World Is Too Much With Us: Keep Going"
4-4:45 pm | Reading: Hoa Nguyen