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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 3d

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 3d

Looking for fellowships or places to submit your work? Look no further! This Submission Sunday, we've rounded up some organizations that are open.

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 5d

Deepa Anappara's new novel THE LAST OF EARTH is forthcoming from @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744050...

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 5d

@cincinnatireview.bsky.social recently published @debraspark.bsky.social's creative nonfiction piece "Open Secret." www.cincinnatireview.com/special-feat...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 5d

@ninamcconigley.bsky.social's new novel HOW TO COMMIT A POSTCOLONIAL MURDER is forthcoming from @pantheonbooks.bsky.social. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/779107...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 5d

This week we're highlighting some upcoming novels and a recent magazine publication from our Fiction Faculty!

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 6d

Join our director @ritabanerjee.bsky.social on Tuesday, October 7 for her lecture on "How to Survive as a Writer under American Capitalism." Hosted by the @uofnorthdakota.bsky.social English department, the lecture will be on Zoom at 7PM Central Time. Register here: ritabanerjee.com/2025/10/01/h...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 7d

Here's some mid-week reading for you, a poem by current Wally Wynne Morrison has been published by Pulse - voices from the heart of medicine. Read "Infinite Excuses" on their website: pulsevoices.org/poems/infini... Pulse tells the story of health care through personal experiences.

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 8d

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 8d

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Support Warren Wilson - Warren Wilson College

With your gift to Warren Wilson College, you are providing resources that inspire current and future students and prepare them for careers in work that they find meaningful.

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 8d

One year after Hurricane Helene struck the Blue Ridge Mountains, much of our community in Swannanoa and the surrounding areas are still working to rebuild. If you are looking for organizations to donate to and support, consider Warren Wilson College and the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly.

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 10d

Today at 4:30 PM EST, all students are invited to join us for the first edition of our new Ask an Alum series with our illustrious guest Oak Morse! The event will take place on Zoom, moderated by our Communications & Programming Intern, Joy Notoma. Check your email for Zoom info!

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 11d

Tomorrow, Sept 28th, all students are invited to join us for the first edition of our new Ask an Alum series with our illustrious guest Oak Morse! The event will take place at 4:30 PM EST on Zoom, moderated by our Communications & Programming Intern, Joy Notoma. Check your email for Zoom info!

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

Congratulations to our Faculty!

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

Edie Meidav's new novel DOGS OF CUBA is forthcoming from @regalhouse.bsky.social. A few of her flash fiction pieces have also recently appeared in the Los Angeles Review and @conjunctions.bsky.social. www.ediemeidav.com

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

Marisa Silver's novel AT LAST was published by @simonandschuster.bsky.social earlier this month. www.simonandschuster.com/books/At-Las...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

Christopher Castellani's new novel LAST SEEN will be published by @vikingbooks.bsky.social on February 17, 2026. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/801283...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

@sjsindu.bsky.social's new graphic novel TALL WATER was published by HarperCollins this August. www.harpercollins.com/products/tal...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 12d

This Friday we're highlighting some of our fiction faculty and their new and upcoming publications!

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 13d

This Sunday, Sept 28th, all students are invited to join us for the first edition of our new Ask an Alum series with our illustrious guest Oak Morse! The event will take place at 4:30 PM EST on Zoom, moderated by our Communications & Programming Intern, Joy Notoma. Check your email for Zoom info!

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to @boyceupholt.bsky.social, whose nonfiction book THE GREAT RIVER won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing! olemiss.edu/news/2025/02...

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 16d

She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Grant and a 2019 Whiting Award. Please join us in welcoming Nafissa!

MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 16d

New writing appears in Fourteen Days: A Community Gathering, edited by Margaret Atwood. In addition to a debut novel with Scribner, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Rich Milford, her young adult debut is forthcoming with Make Me a World (Penguin Random House).

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MFA Program for Writers @warrenwilsonmfa.bsky.social · 16d

With dark humor and covering topics from identity to chronic illness, her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, New York Magazine’s “The Cut,” The Root, The White Review, Ploughshares,400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619-2019, and The 1619 Project.

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