Masterclasses & Craft Talks
Kwoya Fagin Maples Masterclass
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesKwoya Fagin Maples is a writer from Charleston, S.C. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow and a Homeschool Lambda Literary Fellow. In addition to a chapbook publication by Finishing Line Press entitled Something of Yours (2010) her work is published in several…
Jennifer Pemberton Masterclass
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesJennifer Pemberton is a writer and journalist based in Juneau, Alaska, where she heads up the newsroom at KTOO public media and manages a team of reporters focused on energy and the environment in Alaska. Her radio stories have been heard on local public radio stations around the country as well as on All Things…
Mike Kardos Masterclass
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesMichael Kardos is the author of the novels Bluff, Before He Finds Her, and The Three-Day Affair, an Esquire best book of 2012, as well as the story collection One Last Good Time, which won the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for fiction, and the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer’s Guide. His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard Review, and…
Sherrie Flick Masterclass
ten Hoor 257 AL, United StatesSherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness (University of Nebraska Press), the flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume Press), and two short story collections with Autumn House Press: Whiskey, Etc. (2016) and Thank Your Lucky Stars (Fall 2018). Her nonfiction has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Creative Nonfiction, Pittsburgh Quarterly, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Jennifer Horne Masterclass
Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesI’m a writer, editor, and teacher, and I enjoy connecting with readers and other writers. On November 1, 2017, I was commissioned Alabama's Poet Laureate, for a four-year term. I grew up in Arkansas and have lived for many years in Alabama, although I’ve also lived abroad, in England and Romania, and have traveled extensively…
David Shields Masterclass
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDavid Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes…
Danez Smith Master Class
ten Hoor 111Poeming in Code, Singing To Our Beloveds This presentation and workshop seeks to explore the idea of audience while debunking the myths that our audience is either is everyone or no one. We will hone in on what tools writers use to signal to their audiences that the poem is to/for them, how we add love, empathy, and intimacy into our writing, and how we can be more in use our work as gathering grounds and private lines of communication.
A Masterclass with Author Garth Greenwell
tenHoor 116UA English's Creative Writing Progam welcomes celebrated writer Garth Greenwell, who will offer a free one-hour masterclass on the craft of writing on Wednesday, February 22 at 3 p.m. in tenHoor 116. This event is free and open to the public. Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award for Debut of the Year. The recipient of honors including a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship and the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the [...]
A Masterclass with Poet Chelsea Rathburn
Gorgas Library 205 (Camellia Room) 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesUA English's Creative Writing Progam welcomes Georgia Poet Laureate Chelsea Rathburn, who will offer a free one-hour masterclass on the craft of writing on Thursday, March 30 at 2 p.m. in Gorgas 2020 (The Camellia Room). This event is free and open to the public. Chelsea Rathburn is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently Still Life with Mother and Knife, a New York Times “New & Noteworthy” book released by Louisiana State University Press in February 2019. In March [...]
A Masterclass with Morgan Parker
ten Hoor Hall 30 ten Hoor Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesUA English’s Creative Writing Progam welcomes Morgan Parker, who will offer a free one-hour masterclass on the craft of writing on Wednesday, Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. in ten Hoor 30. This event is free and open to the public. Morgan Parker is a poet, essayist, and novelist. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a Pushcart Prize, and has been hailed by The New York Times as “a dynamic [...]