WV Wesleyan MFA Podcast

Cameron Barnett Reading from "The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water" at the West Virginia Wesleyan College MFA Residency, July 2019. Introduced by Dr. Devon McNamara.

A reading from the new anthology "Feminine Rising", edited by Lara Lillibridge and Andrea Fekete, and featuring contributors Rachel Hicks, Cheryl Denise Miller, Tuesday Taylor and Jessica Spruill Waggoner.

Recording of Belle Boggs reading from her novel, "The Gulf" during the summer residency of the West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Residency MFA Program. Introduced by Julia Kastner.

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency

Guest poetry faculty member Diane Gilliam reads six new poems from her new project for the Visiting Writers Series.

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency

Guest nonfiction faculty member Catherine Venable Moore reads her essay "O Beulah Land" for the Visiting Writers Series. Read Catherine's full essay online in Oxford American: https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/351-o-beulah-land

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency

"Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story." --M.F.

Guest nonfiction faculty Matthew Ferrence discusses how to structure emotional shift in the essay (with some help from big-hair 80s rock!).

This lecture discusses these essays: Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras”; Jericho Parms, “Still Life With Chair”; Beth Peterson, “Glaciology”; Ryan Van Meter, “To Bear, To Carry…”; Jo Ann Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter"; Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, “The Beautiful City of Tirzah”

You can learn about and order Matt's new memoir _Appalachia North_ here: https://wvupressonline.com/node/778

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency

"Nonsense is the gateway back to pleasure." --SS

Guest poet Steve Scafidi discusses "how to survive, how to persist" as a writer. Scafidi joined us as part of the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council.

WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency

"The thing that I love about metaphor is that's when you know you're with another person...when you're reading something and you encounter a metaphor that you're grateful to receive, that's when you feel less alone." -- NP

Guest fiction writer Nathan Poole reads his story "Open Season" for the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council. Read Nathan's story by subscribing to Ecotone: https://ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/open-season/

WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency

Endings don't stand alone; we must lay groundwork for them throughout our stories. Corcoran discusses how to achieve an ending that is "inevitable but surprising": "If your story evolves, remember to let the ending evolve too." --J.C.

This lecture discusses the stories: “In the Gloaming,” Alice Elliott Dark; “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” Ursula K. Le Guin; and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” Flannery O’Connor.

WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency

“When do you let the characters speak? When you can't stop them." -- Prose writer Richard Schmitt

This lecture discusses “Bliss” by Katherine Mansfield (originally published in Bliss and Other Stories, 1918) and “Land of the Living” by Sam Shepard (from his 2009 collection, Day out of Days).