• Sarah Messer was granted a Bunting Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University for 2008-2009.

• David Gessner featured on NPR -- July 30, 2007

• Malena Mörling granted Guggenheim Fellowship Award -- April 5, 2007

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• The Coastline, newsletter of the Department of Creative Writing:

- Spring 07 issue

- Spring 06 issue

- Spring 05 issue

- Fall 04 issue
- Fall 01 issue
- Spring 00 issue
- Fall 00 issue

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• News of Current Students and Alumni

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• Young Writers' Workshop

• Bald Head Island Writers' Retreat

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In a recent lengthy feature in the Des Moines Register about the legendary
Iowa Writers Workshop, Associated Writing Programs director David Fenza
described UNCW among "rising stars" in today's growing number of MFA
programs. The following paragraphs are excerpted from the March 6, 2005
story by Register staff writer Mike Kilen:

"Iowa remains arguably the top program in the country because of the gifted
people it attracts, said David Fenza of the Association of Writers and Writing
Programs.

"The big challenge for the next director will be to keep the concentration
of nationally recognized talent at Iowa," Fenza said. "Now that there are so
many programs competing for the same talented writers, it's going to be
difficult. If Iowa becomes complacent, there are plenty of young turks ready
to replace them."

He mentioned University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Texas State
University (where author Tim O'Brien is teaching) as rising stars.

The field has grown. In the 1960s, there were but a dozen MFA programs;
today there are 109.

For the full story, "Writing and learning at U of I's famed workshop," go
to: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005503060306