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Cristy Crutchfield (MFA'11) and Laura Willwerth (MFA'16) receive 2018 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships

Thursday, May 31, 2018

The Mass Cultural Council is honored to announce the 2018 Artist Fellowship awards in Choreography, Fiction/Creative Nonfiction, and Painting. The awards include 19 fellowships of $12,000, and 17...

Brendan Bowles (MFA'17) and Kritika Pandey (MFA'19) shortlisted for prestigious 2018 Commonwealth Writers short story prize

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Now in its seventh year, the Prize is for the best piece of unpublished short fiction in English.   Twenty-four outstanding stories from fourteen countries have been selected by an international...

Karen Donovan (MFA'89) has new a book AARD-VARK TO AXOLOTL: PICTURES FROM MY GRANDFATHER'S DICTIONARY

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Karen Donovan’s new book AARD-VARK TO AXOLOTL: PICTURES FROM MY GRANDFATHER'S DICTIONARY  (Etruscan Press, 2018) is an eclectic series of tiny stories and prose poems, is based on a set of...

Karen Skolfield's (MFA'98) "Battle Dress" Chosen for Barnard Women Poets Prize

Monday, May 7, 2018

The MFA for Poets and Writers is pleased to announce that Karen Skolfield (MFA’98) is the winner of the 2018 Barnard Women Poets Prize for Battle Dress, her second collection of poems.  ...