Tag: FairfieldMFA

  • Workshopping for Story and Narrative

    Workshopping for Story and Narrative

    By Shelley Evans, Sonya Huber, and Bill Patrick You’ve got a terrific idea. It would make a great short story or perhaps even a novel. You know it would. Or maybe you’ve just finished that once-in-a-lifetime immersion opportunity, following detectives or migrants or crusading doctors for a year, and you have notes and photos and…

  • Introducing Shelley Evans, New MFA faculty member at Fairfield!

    Introducing Shelley Evans, New MFA faculty member at Fairfield!

    Shelley Evans began teaching for us as a guest faculty member in Summer 2015, and we are thrilled to welcome her to our regular faculty in the Fairfield Low-Residency MFA. She showed an amazing movie she wrote about the true story of a transgender teen’s murder, “A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Arajo Story,” and…

  • Adriana Páramo, new Fairfield MFA Faculty!

    Adriana Páramo, new Fairfield MFA Faculty!

      Adriana Páramo came to the Fairfield low-residency MFA Faculty this past winter 2016 residency as a guest writer, and after that we decided we had to have her on the faculty. Lucky for us, she accepted, and we are thrilled to welcome her. A cultural anthropologist, writer and women’s rights advocate, Páramo is the author of Looking for…

  • The “Free” Workshop as a Substitute for a Reading?

    The “Free” Workshop as a Substitute for a Reading?

    I didn’t mean to fill my schedule up like this, but it looks like I’ll be reading or teaching at a bunch of places this spring, including four libraries and one conference in Connecticut, a panel on memoir at AWP in Seattle and at a reading for Daniel Nester’s Incredible Sestina Anthology, and River Teeth…