MFA in Writing Archive

This year our annual Spring for VCFA event, Art + Connection, will feature a series of readings, performances, screenings, conversations, and more from May 19…

The virtual Writing Alumnx Reading Series continues with biweekly events on Thursday evenings this spring.

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s debut novel, The Road to Salt Sea, is forthcoming from Amistad/Harper Collins. He was born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared…

Michael Croley is the author of Any Other Place: Stories, winner of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Weatherford…

Emily Bernard was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She holds a BA and PhD in American Studies from Yale University. Her work has appeared…

Writing alumnx Shelagh Shapiro ('03) has been engaged in conversations about craft on the air and on the page for decades. Shapiro is the host…

Shanta participated in an e-interview with us in November of 2020. Below are edited excerpts from our conversations about coming to writing, her Vermont Arts…

Tommy Orange’s debut novel, There There (Knopf), was a New York Times bestseller and named as one of the paper’s 10 Best Books of the…

Alex Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir, which received a Lambda Literary Award, the Chautauqua Prize,…

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is the author of four volumes of poetry: Oceanic (Copper Canyon Press, 2018); Lucky Fish (Tupelo Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 Eric…