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The Kentucky Poetry Festival

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Kentucky Poetry FestivalToday marks the beginning of the Kentucky Poetry Festival, sponsored by the University of Kentucky’s MFA in Creative Writing. The festival includes a variety of events, including an ekphrastic poetry contest, a poetry slam, and various readings.

You can view the full list of events by clicking here while links to the Facebook Event pages are below.

Tom Hunley on Western Kentucky MFA Program

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The College Heights Herald recently quoted Tom C. Hunley (author of Scotch Tape World) on the new MFA in Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University. If approved, the university will accept six applicants for Fall 2015.

“It’s exciting that we are finally getting to the point where it’s being administratively approved,” said Tom. “It’s exciting to start recruiting new students and to get to know new faculty.”

Other notable information about the article are the secondary specializations (literature, composition and rhetoric, or teaching ESL) and a focus on Creative Writing Pedagogy.

You can read the rest of the article here.

(Details such as application deadlines and submission requirements are currently unavailable.)

Tom Hunley

Tom C. Hunley is an associate professor of English at Western Kentucky University and the director of Steel Toe Books. Among his previous books are The Poetry Gymnasium (McFarland & Company, Inc., 2012); Annoyed Grunt (Imaginary Friend Press, 2012); Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2010, Gold Invitational Series); Octopus (Logan House, 2008, Winner of the Holland Prize); Teaching Poetry Writing: A Five-Canon Approach (Multilingual Matters LTD., 2007, New Writing Viewpoints Series); My Life as a Minor Character (Pecan Grove, 2005, winner of a national chapbook contest); Still, There’s a Glimmer (WordTech Editions, 2004); and The Tongue (Wind Publications, 2004). He divides his time between Kansas and Oz.

Accents Radio 05/30/14: Roy Hoffman

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from the Spalding MFA website

photo from the Spalding MFA website

Join us on Accents Radio as Katerina sits down with novelist and journalist Roy Hoffman.

Originally from Mobile, Alabama, Hoffman spent twenty years in New York City where he “wrote articles and reviews for numerous publications, penned speeches for the president of NYU and the governor and first lady of New York, and taught workshops at NYU’s School of Professional Studies” (source). He currently lives in Fairhope, Alabama.

His novels are Chicken Dreaming Corn (University of Georgia Press, 2004) and Almost Family (Dial, 1983; University of Alabama Press reprint, 2000), and his latest book, Alabama Afternoons: Profiles and Conversations, (University of Alabama Press, 2011), is a “collection of portraits of many remarkable Alabamians, famous and obscure” (source) and collects a series of Sunday features from the Mobile Press-Register, where Hoffman was a longtime staff writer.

As a talented writer of various forms and an experienced educator, Hoffman will no doubt have some insight to share, so don’t forget to tune in at 2pm on WRFL 88.1.
(Click here to stream on the web!)

Previously on Accents Radio: