WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2017 Residency

“Avoid being hostages of literariness.” -- Mexican novelist Yuri Herrera (This lecture discusses the painting “Las Meninas” by Diego Velázquez.)

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

Karen Salyer McElmurray reading nonfiction in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council

Text of this award-winning essay available online at: http://www.newsoutherner.com/2016/12/13/hand-me-down/

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

Marie Manilla reading nonfiction in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council

Text of the essay available online at: http://www.thecossackreview.com/supplement5/marie_manilla.html

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

Nickole Brown reading from FANNY SAYS in the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

“Get in the creek.” -- Katie Fallon, author of the newly released "Vulture: The Private Life of an Unloved Bird" (University Press of New England)

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

“All form comes down to two gestures: list (thing, thing, thing…), sheer muchness and variation; and refrain (message that recurs). Modular form suggests both at once.” -- Jaimy Gordon

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2017 Residency

“You cannot go cheap with your work.” -- Diane Gilliam