Master of Arts in Writing
The mission of the Master of Arts in Writing program is to make individuals more proficient writers in order to meet challenges in areas of professional writing, creative writing and writing instruction. Graduate students in the Master of Arts in Writing program learn to make sophisticated judgments regarding content, tone, style and diction of various forms of professional and creative writing; utilize technology for presentations, web pages, visual media and print documents; and learn professional procedures to prepare and submit manuscripts for publication.
The M.A. in Writing degree addresses three related areas of need: Professional writing, creative writing and composition. While all three areas can be viewed as distinct disciplines, this degree will link them by emphasizing some central principles of effective writing while allowing for intensive exploration of particular subfields of writing. Our program is specifically relevant for teachers, aspiring creative writers, and professional writers and researchers who want to gain or enhance their professional and/or creative writing credentials.
News and Events...
Words to Say It: Erika Meitner to Read, Thursday, November 17th, 4:30 Wall Auditorium
Erika Meitner is the author of Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore (Anhinga Press, 2003) and Ideal Cities (HarperCollins, 2010), which was a 2009 National Poetry Series winner. Her most recent collection, Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, was published by Anhinga Press in March 2011. Meitner's poems have appeared most recently in Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, Indiana Review, The New Republic, and on Slate.com. She is currently an assistant professor of English at Virginia Tech, where she teaches in the MFA program.
New Issue of Waccamaw is Now Available Online
The new issue of Waccamaw is now available online. Be sure to check out the Waccamaw Interview Wheel, which includes interviews with Aimee Bender, Ben Percy, Will Allison, Lauren Groff, Kevin Wilson, Laura van den Berg, Kevin Moffett, Stephanie Powell Watts, Jeff Parker, and Adam Levin.
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Graduate Student Publishes in Temporary Infinity Press
Matthew Fowler's personal essay, "Fault Lines," has been published in Temporary Infinity Press' November issue, released November 1. The essay explores a relationship's unanswered questions while the events of the 2011 Japanese quake and tsunami unfold. Fowler will be the first graduate of the M.A. in Writing program.
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Jennifer Boyle's Work Appears in postmedieval
Assistant Professor Jennifer Boyle’s work will appear in the forthcoming issue of postmedieval: a journal of medieval cultural studies. The special issue, “Becoming Media,” will focus “on a series of questions and explorations of the notion of ‘becoming-media’ within and in conversation with medieval and early modern contexts. Becoming-media refers in one sense to our dependence on the recursive circuitry and tangle of technologies, bodies, narratives, spaces, and mediating technics, across historical periods and across literary, scientific, philosophical, and theological modes of expression” (Palgrave Macmillan).
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In 2010, Boyle published Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature (Ashgate). In Anamorphosis, Boyle “investigates how anamoprhic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and experimental philosophy” (Ashgate).
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Graduate Student Publishes in The Sun News
Cameron Wright’s personal essay, “The Day I Became an American,” will appear in the 9/11 special issue of The Sun News, Myrtle Beach's daily newspaper. Wright, who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, moved to Myrtle Beach in 1999. He was an English teacher at Myrtle Beach High School when the Twin Towers were attacked. Wright’s essay chronicles the events of 9/11 from a teacher’s point of view, a position in which he grappled to answer questions of the attack for the students as well as himself.
Joe Oestreich's Memoir to be Published by Lyons Press in 2012
Assistant Professor Joe Oestreich has sold his memoir, Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll, to Lyons Press for publication in June 2012. The book documents the twenty-five years Oestreich has spent as the singer and bassist for the Columbus, Ohio-based band, Watershed. Oestreich describes Hitless Wonder as chronicling what happens when you chase a dream into middle age and, in doing so, risk losing the people you love. “Everyone knows the price of fame,” Oestreich says. “Hitless Wonder measures the price of obscurity.”
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