Deep thanks to all applicants who honored us by sharing their work. We had a record number of applicants this year (over 300) and received … [Read More...]

Crime fiction author Megan Abbott has been selected as the 2013-2014 Grisham Writer-in-Residence. Click HERE for the full story. … [Read More...]
Nic Brown is author of the novel Doubles and the story collection Floodmarkers, which was selected as an Editor's Choice by The New York Times. .
When poet Anne Carson visited with her partner, Robert Currie, MFAs were involved in their dance/poetry hybrid performance. Photo provided by Gaetano Catelli.
Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth inscribes the prize-winning poem in lipstick on the back of SKIN MAG'S Kevin Fitchett before the Poetry Run.
Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer.
Award winning writers Ford and Offutt with poet Melissa Ginsburg and Chancellor Jones
A prolific writer of novels, memoirs, and short stories, Offutt’s screenplays include HBO's True Blood and Showtime's Weeds.
Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger winner Franklin with UM 2011 Humanities Teacher of the Year Fennelly
To celebrate 100,000 Poets for Change, the MFA poets and Professor Ann Fisher-Wirth carried on a little infiltration of poetry into the day of the home football game against Georgia.
Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura Gray-Street
by Beth Ann Fennelly “With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance.” —Robert Hass
by Tom Franklin In ten stunning and bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River, Tom Franklin stakes his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice. His lyric, deceptively simple prose conjures a world where the default setting is violence, a world… [Continue Reading]
by Ann Fisher-Wirth
by Chris Offutt
by Gary Short Gary Short’s new collection is the work of a mature poet at the peak of his powers, confident of his ability to speak of human betrayal and the fragility of life without bitterness or cheap sentiment, to find poignancy in loss and exaltation in the outwardly mundane. His voice is lyrical, tough,… [Continue Reading]
Jack Pendarvis