Cameron Barnett Reading from "The Drowning Boy's Guide to Water" at the West Virginia Wesleyan College MFA Residency, July 2019. Introduced by Dr. Devon McNamara.

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Cameron Barnett Reading at West Virginia Wesleyan College, July 2019

A reading from the new anthology "Feminine Rising", edited by Lara Lillibridge and Andrea Fekete, and featuring contributors Rachel Hicks, Cheryl Denise Miller, Tuesday Taylor and Jessica Spruill Waggoner.

Feminine Rising Reading at WVWC-MFA, July 11, 2019

Recording of Belle Boggs reading from her novel, "The Gulf" during the summer residency of the West Virginia Wesleyan College Low-Residency MFA Program. Introduced by Julia Kastner.

Belle Boggs Reading from "The Gulf", Introduced by Julia Kastner

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency Guest poetry faculty member Diane Gilliam reads six new poems from her new project for the Visiting Writers Series.

Diane Gilliam reading six poems

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency Guest nonfiction faculty member Catherine Venable Moore reads her essay "O Beulah Land" for the Visiting Writers Series. Read Catherine's full essay online in Oxford American: https://www.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/351-o-beulah-land

Catherine Venable Moore reading her essay "O Beulah Land"

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency "Memoirists wish to tell their mind, not their story." --M.F. Guest nonfiction faculty Matthew Ferrence discusses how to structure emotional shift in the essay (with some help from big-hair 80s rock!). This lecture discusses these essays: Brian Doyle, “Joyas Voladoras”; Jericho Parms, “Still Life With Chair”; Beth Peterson, “Glaciology”; Ryan Van Meter, “To Bear, To Carry…”; Jo Ann Beard, “The Fourth State of Matter"; Harrison Candelaria Fletcher, “The Beautiful City of Tirzah” You can learn about and order Matt's new memoir _Appalachia North_ here: https://wvupressonline.com/node/778

Matthew Ferrence: "Big Hair Rock Fills"

WV Wesleyan MFA Winter 2019 Residency "Nonsense is the gateway back to pleasure." --SS Guest poet Steve Scafidi discusses "how to survive, how to persist" as a writer. Scafidi joined us as part of the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council.

Steve Scafidi: "Use & Uselessness: The Lyric Spectrum"

WV Wesleyan MFA Summer 2018 Residency "The thing that I love about metaphor is that's when you know you're with another person...when you're reading something and you encounter a metaphor that you're grateful to receive, that's when you feel less alone." -- NP Guest fiction writer Nathan Poole reads his story "Open Season" for the Visiting Writers Series supported with funding from the WV Humanities Council. Read Nathan's story by subscribing to Ecotone: https://ecotonemagazine.org/fiction/open-season/

Nathan Poole reading his short story "Open Season"

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