MFA in Writing News
Morgan Jerkins MFA '16 Debuts New York Times Bestseller This Will be My Undoing, an essay collection by Morgan Jerkins MFA 鈥16, debuted at #7 on The New York Times bestseller list.
鈥淎 Trailblazer for the Next Generation鈥Cynthia D鈥橝prix Sweeney MFA 鈥13 nominated Christine Mangan MFA '04 for Newsweek鈥檚 special feature on 鈥淲omen of the Future,鈥 which asked 20 prominent women to each nominate an up-and-comer they believe will be a trailblazer for the next generation.
McCorkle Enshrined in Hall of Fame Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jill McCorkle has been selected for a place in the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.
This is How a Woman is Erased from her JobAfter taking over from George Plimpton, Brigid Hughes was pushed out as editor of The Paris Review and omitted from the magazine鈥檚 history. When news broke that Loren Stein, the editor at The Paris Review, had resigned after abusing his power with women writers and staff, Allison Devers MFA '08 set about fixing the magazine's masthead and the record.
Best Books of the New Year Book Riot reported on the "101 books coming out in 2019 that you should mark down." The list included books by authors Jaime Quatro MFA '09 and Morgan Jerkins MFA '16.