MFA Creative Writing Program Celebrates Multiple Achievements
From selection to a prestigious jury panel to receiving a Pushcart Prize, summer was a time of significant achievement for the alumni, students, and faculty of Converse’s Master of Fine …
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing
MFA Grad Selected as 2023 Pulitzer Prize Judge
MFA alumna Cinelle Barnes ’15 (Creative Nonfiction) was selected as a judge for the 2023 Pulitzer Prize Awards memoir category. Barnes earned an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Converse. She …
MFA Grad Selected as Finalist for Eric Hoffer Book Award
MFA fiction graduate Kim Shegog ’15 was selected as a 2023 Eric Hoffer Book Award finalist for the short story collection, “Crossing Over”. “Crossing Over” also won the inaugural Converse …
Lisa Hase Jackson ‘15 Wins Converse MFA Book Prize
The Converse Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing and Clemson University Press announce the 2023 Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize winner, Lisa Hase-Jackson ‘15, author of Insomnia in Another Town. Zorina …
Converse & Hub City Writers to Host Author Charles Frazier
Hub City Writers Project and Converse University will host bestselling author and National Book Award Winner Charles Frazier on April 26, 2023, on the Converse campus. “An Evening with Charles …
Professor Tekulve Discusses Her Inspiration & Writing Process
Associate Professor of English, Susan Tekulve, was the guest writer for Converse’s low-residency MFA blog. Tekulve is the author of multiple books, including Second Shift: Essays, and In The Garden of Stone, which …
In the Wake of Trauma: an MFA Immersion Residency Experience
By Rebecca L. Cleveland Cartwright Adversarial growth is a psychological phenomenon of post-traumatic changes in which people flourish after extreme adversity. I’d never heard of it until I came across …
Poetry and the Power of a Converse MFA: Zorina Frey ’23
In this captivating, honest, and humorous blog post, Zorina Frey ’23 (MFA) talks about her journey to—and through—Converse’s low-residency MFA program. An MFA double major in Creative Nonfiction and Poetry, …
Professor Tekulve Publishes New Work
Associate Professor of English Susan Tekulve published multiple new poems this year. You can read her poetry on Weekly Hubris. Professor Tekulve is the author of In the Garden of Stone (Hub City …