UMass MFA

We're back this fall with an incredible lineup for our annual Visiting Writers Series. umass.edu/english/visiti… Sept 19: Tongo Eisen-Martin Oct 24: Hanif Abdurraqib Nov 14: Rae Armantrout Dec 5: Yuri Herrera & Lisa Dillman Thursdays / 6pm, Old Chapel Free & open to the public!

TOMORROW! // Join us for a reading with DOROTHEA LASKY, 6pm @ The Old Chapel. Celebrating 60 years of the UMass MFA.

The UMass MFA for Poets and Writers is proud to present our Fall 2023 Visiting Writers Series! Join us for our first reading TOMORROW, Thursday September 28, with poet LISA OLSTEIN. 6pm @ The Old Chapel at Umass. umass.edu/englishmfa/eve…

The MFA for Poets & Writers seeks a new MFA Program Coordinator. If you have great admin chops and experience with literary programming, consider applying! careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-us/…

Tonight!

Steps for writing a book, according to @UMassMFA Robin McLean '11: ✅ Forgo distractions of modernity. ✅ Watch the stars away from light pollution. ✅ Get to work. At Ike’s Canyon Ranch—the writing retreat McLean co-founded—you can do just that: umass.edu/magazine/fall-…

Join us on Thursday for a reading by poet Kyle Dacuyan!

DRINKING FROM GRAVEYARD WELLS, @Lisa_teabag's debut short story collection, will be published on March 7, 2023 by @KentuckyPress! The collection contains 14 stories inspired by her experiences living under the Mugabe dictatorship. brittlepaper.com/2022/11/zimbab…

#ClipOfTheDay: Abigail Chabitnoy reads from her latest collection, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful, at this @UMassMFA event for their Visiting Writing Series. at.pw.org/Chabitnoy

See you tonight!

Women’s prize-winning author @kamilashamsie will join the next @guardianlive Book Club to discuss her winning novel Home Fire, a modern-day retelling of Sophocles’s Antigone. Join her with Guardian chief culture writer and author of Greek Myths, @chiggi: bit.ly/3zEKv8h

See you tomorrow!

Browsing for Friday night plans? Join us from your browser for our last NEOMFA reading series event of the fall season, featuring @darawier. Register, here ↓ eventbrite.com/e/the-neomfa-r…

Juniper Initiative for Literary Arts and Action is thrilled to receive a 2023 Mass Cultural Council @masscultural grant! This grant will support public programs, festivals, reading series, and more! More info: umass.edu/english/news/j…

One week from today!

We're 94% there — thanks to @MassReview for their generous donation ❣️ Only $130 more to go! minutefund.umass.edu/project/33585/…

I’ll be reading from my forthcoming short story collection this Wednesday on Instagram Live with Neon Hemlock Press & some cool writers! Come join! @neonhemlock

We are excited to welcome prose writer Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah next week! Please join us on Thursday, November 3 for a reading and book signing. 6pm in the Old Chapel, register: forms.gle/Cr8t7D7qcuDANa…

Announcing the 2023 Juniper workshop faculty and visiting poets & writers! Join us June 11th-17th. Applications open November 1, 2022.

In celebration of her forthcoming book, In the Current Where Drowning Is Beautiful (@weslpress), Abigail Chabitnoy recalls having the earliest poems from this collection published in @_peripheries. Find out more about this print and digital journal: at.pw.org/ChabitnoyMagNet