Creative writing professor and lauded environmental writer David Gessner has been awarded the Thomas S. Kenan III Distinguished Professorship in Creative Writing. uncw.edu/news/academic-affairs/chssa/2024/10/gessner-named-kenan-distinguished-professor

At a recent UNCW Foundation Board event, Creative Writing faculty & students gathered to share presentations & personal stories of the work we're doing and the passion we have for our little writing community. ♥

Join us Friday, Nov 22 at 9 AM EST for this season's 9th session of Write Wilmington with Sayantani Dasgupta—author, professor, and founder/director of WW! The Fall 2024 theme is Nine Stories, with sessions featuring prompts to generate one or more short stories. Register at bit.ly/WWilm2024

Senior BFA student Kennedy Cole had the opportunity to interview Associate Professor and MFA Coordinator Melissa Crowe about what makes our graduate creative writing program special. Check it out! www.onlypoems.net/publishing/c...

We are hiring for two Assistant/Associate Professor positions! Details and requirements are posted at jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Fiction) and jobs.uncw.edu/hr/postings/... (Poetry). Please share with qualified and interested folks, or any appropriate group.

Our annual Writers' Week symposium was a great success! The 2024 theme was "Both/And"—see our incredible lineup of speakers and distinguished guests, including keynote 2023 National Book Award winner Justin Torres, at writersweek2024.sched.com.