Join us for an inspiring evening with Sarah Rose Nordgren and Travis Sharp as they share their powerful works of nonfiction and poetry on September 12th!
On Friday, May 3, the UNC Greensboro class of 2024 will cross the commencement stage at the Greensboro Coliseum. Among this year’s graduates is English major Katherine Wyrick, a literature enthusiast with an exciting future.
Wyrick’s passion for literature and history will take her first to Florence, Italy — then Oxford, England — and finally, to a fully-funded master’s program in English at Wake Forest University.
Experience the expressive poetry of Mark Smith-Soto’s final work, “Daybreak”, in a special reading event on April 7th.
On May 11th, come join UNCG’s first ever Digital Fiction Jam, where you can share your very own interactive narrative video game that you’ll create!
Join us for the next installment of the University’s English Department Tea Talk series with Dr. Jeanie Reynolds on April 19th at 3:30pm!
Only four stories were published in her lifetime. She died nearly six decades ago, two years after graduation from UNC Greensboro. But alumna Diane Oliver ’64 is now getting the acclaim few writers achieve.
The first collection of her short stories, “Neighbors and Other Stories,” has been published this month by the literary press Grove Atlantic.
Join the student English Club for an open mic night in the EUC! Come share your writing and enjoy the work of your creative peers.
Our “Last Lecture” series returns with UNCG Professor Emeritus Michael Parker, author of eight novels and three collections of stories. Parker has received the North Carolina Award for Literature, the Thomas Wolfe Prize, and three O.Henry Awards, among many other honors; for nearly thirty years, he taught in the MFA … Continued
Scott Gould will join Nellie Hildebrandt (MFA ’24) and Terry L. Kennedy (Director, MFA Writing Program) in a conversation celebrating the release of Gould’s latest short story collection, Idiot Men. This special Saturday evening event marks the 2024 kickoff for our Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, and will be followed by … Continued
Join us for a second evening celebrating the creative accomplishments of our graduate students in the MFA Writing Program! Sierra Stonebraker and Kay Zeiss will give a reading of original fiction and poetry. A part of the MFA Writing Program’s 2024 Thesis Reading Series, the event is free and open … Continued