An earlier edition of the Fall 2013 newsletter was distributed prior to its being approved through the appropriate channels. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Thank you,

Devon Copeland
Interim Director of Communications and Marketing
Eberly College of Arts and Sciences

Pioneer Naturalists: The Discovery and Naming of North American Plants and Animals, by Howard Ensign Evans.

Everything I Have Is Blue: Short Fiction by Working-Class Men About More-or-less Gay Life, edited by Wendell Ricketts.

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, by Stephen King.

Feminism for Real: Deconstructing the Academic Industrial Complex of Feminism, edited by Jessica Yee.

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View the 2nd and 3rd year MFAs welcome packet and Bios
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Kelly Sundberg continues her career as a PhD Candidate in Ohio University’s Creative Nonfiction program this coming Fall. She also has an essay, “Mornings, on the Ranch” forthcoming in The Los Angeles Review.

Read on to find out about our alumni and current student achievements. Click Here

The seventeenth annual West Virginia Writers’ Workshop kicked off on the 18th of July, gathering notable authors Sandra Meek, Elizabeth Graver, Jim Harms, Mark Brazaitis, Jeff Monahan, Renée Nicholson and Natalie Sypolt on our downtown campus. New and experienced participants of all ages attended craft talks, readings, and workshops, and even had the chance to pitch their manuscripts to publishers from Page Spring Publishing in one-on-one sessions. Read More...

October is coming and with it the inaugural issue of The Cheat River Review. The CRR is a student-run online literary journal associated with WVU’s MFA program. Although we have drawn inspiration from our namesake, we have taken a more holistic approach to the direction of our journal. Read More...