Join us at AWP

The Greensboro Review and The MFA Creative Writing Program at UNC Greensboro will be hosting the following events at the 2011 Annual Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference & Bookfair in Washington, DC. Please stop by Booth 208 to say hello or consider joining us for the following events!

Jim Clark Alumni CD Signing

1:00-2:00pm Thursday, February 3

Booth 208, AWP Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park

Jim Clark is currently the Elizabeth H. Jordan Professor of Southern Literature and Chair of the Department of English and Modern Language at Barton College, in Wilson, North Carolina, where he is Director of The Barton College Creative Writing Symposium and an editor of the literary journal Crucible.

45th Anniversary Fiction Reading by the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro

3:00-6:00 p.m. Thursday, February 3

Thurgood Marshall South Room, Marriott Wardman Park

Join us as we celebrate the 45th-anniversary of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro with a fiction reading by Jim Clark, Michael Parker, Fred Chappell, Craig Nova, Holly Goddard Jones, and Lee Zacharias.

MFA Writing Program at Greensboro Alumni Reception

7:00-10:00 p.m. Thursday, February 3

Omni Shoreham (Room TBA - Please Check Booth 208)

Come see old friends and meet our new students. Drinks and "very light" appetizers will be served. Check in at Booth 208 on Thursday for the Room Number. Please help us spread the word!

Dan Albergotti Alumni Book Signing

12:00-1:00pm Friday, February 4

Booth 208, AWP Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park

Dan Albergotti is the author of The Boatloads (BOA Editions, 2008), selected by Edward Hirsch as the winner of the 2007 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in The Cincinnati Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Pushcart Prize XXXIII: Best of the Small Presses. A graduate of the MFA program at UNC Greensboro and former poetry editor of The Greensboro Review, Albergotti currently teaches creative writing and literature courses and edits the online journal Waccamaw at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, SC.

Luke Johnson Greensboro Review Contributor Book Signing

2:00-3:00 p.m. Friday, February 4

Booth 208, AWP Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park

Luke Johnson is the author of the poetry collection After the Ark (NYQ Books, 2011). His has appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Beloit Poetry Journal, Epoch, Greensboro Review, storySouth, and elsewhere.

Keith Lee Morris / Jillian Weise Alumni Book Signing

3:00-3:30pm Saturday, February 5

Booth 208, AWP Bookfair, Marriott Wardman Park

Keith Lee Morris is an associate professor of English and creative writing at Clemson University. His short stories have been published in Tin House, A Public Space, Southern Review, Ninth Letter, StoryQuarterly, New England Review, The Sun, and the Georgia Review, among other publications. The University of Nevada published his first two books, The Greyhound God (2003) and The Best Seats in the House (2004), and Tin House Books published his novel The Dart League King.

Jillian Weise was born in Houston, Texas in 1981. Her poetry collections are The Amputee's Guide to Sex and Translating the Body. She received fellowships from the the Fine Arts Work Center, the Fulbright Program and the University of North Carolina-Greensboro before accepting a position at Clemson.

45th Anniversary Alumni Reading by the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro

4:30-7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 5

Ambassador Ballroom, OmniShoreham Hotel

Join us as we celebrate the 45th-anniversary of the MFA Writing Program at Greensboro with an alumni reading by Kelly Cherry, Keith Lee Morris, Drew Perry, Dan Albergotti, and Jillian Weise.