Watch Professor Clyde Edgerton deliver the 2009 commencement address.

Listen to MFA student Michelle Billman interview Teens Out Loud student Maria Rangel on public radion station WHQR as part of a series on adolescent health.

In his introduction to Best American Short Stories 2008, Salman Rushdie names Ecotone one of ten literary journals on which "the health of the American short story depends."

Atlantic Monthly names the MFA Program in Creative Writing one of the top "Five Innovative/Unique Programs" in the country.

Sarah Messer was granted a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University for 2008-2009.

MFA student Erin Bond won the AWP Intro Journals award in creative nonfiction for her essay “The Strong Force.” Her essay will be published in a future issue of Quarterly West. MFA student Miriam Parker's novel excerpt “Rosenvasser’s Ghost” earned an honorable mention in fiction.

Malena Mörling granted Guggenheim Fellowship Award: April 5, 2007

Randall Library Special Collections and Archives staff have conducted interviews with creative writing faculty as part of their Oral History Collection: Southeast North Carolina.

The Coastline, newsletter of the Department of Creative Writing:

Spring 09 issue
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Spring 07 issue
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Spring 05 issue
Fall 04 issue
Fall 01 issue
Fall 00 issue

UNCW's Creative Writing program a "rising star" among MFA programs

In a lengthy feature in the Des Moines Register about the legendary Iowa Writers Workshop, Associated Writing Programs director David Fenza described UNCW among "rising stars" in today's growing number of MFA programs. The following paragraphs are excerpted from the March 6, 2005 story by Register staff writer Mike Kilen:

"Iowa remains arguably the top program in the country because of the gifted people it attracts, said David Fenza of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs.

"The big challenge for the next director will be to keep the concentration of nationally recognized talent at Iowa," Fenza said. "Now that there are so many programs competing for the same talented writers, it's going to be difficult. If Iowa becomes complacent, there are plenty of young turks ready to replace them."

He mentioned University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Texas State University (where author Tim O'Brien is teaching) as rising stars.

The field has grown. In the 1960s, there were but a dozen MFA programs; today there are 109.

For the full story, "Writing and learning at U of I's famed workshop," go to: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005503060306