UNCG English Department

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Whether you are looking for adventure or advocacy, game writing or rebirth, we have it covered this Fall! #uncgenglish

Join us this morning in MHRA 3501 and enjoy prompts from your favorite professors while you journal, connect, and recharge! #uncgenglish #UNCGWellnessTakeoverDay

Live in the Triad? UNCG Creative Writing alum Tita Ramírez will be reading at Guilford College this Thursday, April 9th, at 6PM. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. buff.ly/yZ0Vz1N Tita Ramírez grew up in Miami, the daughter of a Cuban exile and a Kentucky native. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in LitHub, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and their two sons, and teaches creative writing at Elon University. Tell It to Me Singing is her debut novel.

It is almost time for Wellness Takeover Day at UNCG!! Join us tomorrow in MHRA 3501 to reconnect, recharge and journal. #uncgenglish #UNCGWellnessTakeover

Advising continues this week and we have two more drop-in sessions on Wednesday and Friday. See you soon! #uncgenglish

From advocacy to video games, there's a course for everyone in Fall 2026. Here's a few of ours! #uncgenglish

The English Graduate Student Association (EGSA) is hosting our Hot Ones event, where English faculty answer your questions while eating spicy wings. You can submit questions to our faculty panel in advance by using this form: go.uncg.edu/hotones26. #uncgenglish

Join us on April 8 to create, connect, and recharge on Wellness Takeover Day 📖 #uncgenglish #UNCGWellnessTakeover

Live in the Triad? UNCG Creative Writing alum Tita Ramírez will be reading at Guilford College on Thursday, April 9th at 6PM. The reading is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception and book signing. buff.ly/yZ0Vz1N Tita Ramírez grew up in Miami, the daughter of a Cuban exile and a Kentucky native. Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in LitHub, The Normal School, Black Warrior Review, and elsewhere. She currently lives in North Carolina with her husband and their two sons, and teaches creative writing at Elon University. Tell It to Me Singing is her debut novel.

Join us this Thursday, April 2nd, at 6PM in the UNCG Alumni House for a poetry and fiction reading by Diamond Forde and Stephanie Powell Watts. The reading is free and open to the public and will be preceded by a reception and book signing. buff.ly/ZsQBbir DIAMOND FORDE is the author of two poetry collections, Mother Body, a Kate Tufts Discovery award nominee, and The Book of Alice, winner of the Academy of American Poets’ James Laughlin Award. She has received a doctorate in Creative Writing at Florida State University, with a specialization in both African American poetics and fat studies, and an MFA in Creative Writing at The University of Alabama. Forde has received recognition in the Furious Flower Poetry Prize, nomination as a Kate Tufts Discovery award finalist, and has earned a Ruth Lily Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg fellowship. Her work has appeared in Poetry Magazine, Obsidian, Callaloo, and elsewhere. Forde serves as the Interviews Editor for Honey Literary, as an assistant professor at North Carolina University. STEPHANIE POWELL WATTS won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence for her debut story collection, We Are Taking Only What We Need (2012), also named one of 2013’s Best Summer Reads by O: The Oprah Magazine. Her short fiction has been included in two volumes of the Best New Stories from the South anthology and honored with a Pushcart Prize. Ms. Powell Watts’s stories explore the lives of African Americans in fast food and factory jobs, working door to door as Jehovah’s Witness ministers, and pressing against the boundaries of the small town, post-integration South. Her debut novel, No One Is Coming to Save Us, follows the return of a successful native son to his home in North Carolina and his attempt to join the only family he ever wanted but never had. As Ms. Powell Watts describes it, “Imagine The Great Gatsby set in rural North Carolina, nine decades later, with desperate black people.” Born in the foothills of North Carolina, with a PhD from the University of Missouri and a BA from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, she now lives with her husband and son in Pennsylvania where she is an associate professor at Lehigh University.

Our very own Dr. Magana Kabugi doing plenary panel on HBCU archives at the Society for the Study of Southern Literature Conference at Fisk University! #uncgenglish

Advising for this week - come see us! #uncgenglish

Celebrate the launch of the Greensboro Bound Book Festival: American Kaleidoscope with #1 New York Times bestselling author Casey McQuiston. Free event. Registration required. #uncgenglish #greensborobound #uncglibraries

Please join us as we welcome Casey McQuiston to UNCG for a Master Class on April 9th. Planning to join us? Let us know here forms.office.com/r/GxxrVc6K8h #uncgenglish #greensborobound

Happy Monday, Spartans! Stop by one of our drop-in sessions this week to have advising questions answered and enjoy some great snacks! #uncgenglish

Today is the day 🎉 Advising for Fall 2026 begins today in MHRA 3407. Stop by to get your questions answered and to grab a snack! #uncgenglish

Hot on the heels of the Oscars: an embodied storytelling English Club meeting! Learn some acting-based techniques to apply to your fiction with fearless improv leader Elise LeSage. And as always, eat snacks. #uncg_english

The 2026 Greensboro Bound Book Festival returns April 9–11 with American Kaleidoscope, a celebration of diverse voices and stories. Three days of free events and endless stories! #uncgenglish

Please join us in congratulating Esther Hung and Brytani Raymond Crowe, recipients of the 2026 Roskelly Award for Pedagogical Innovation!! We're incredibly fortunate to have such talented teachers in our department. #uncgenglish