by Jane V. Blunschi | Jan 16, 2020 | Awards & Honors, Faculty Points of Pride, Features
Creative Writing’s Toni Jensen Awarded Fellowship From National Endowment for the Arts Toni Jensen, a professor of fiction in the Program in Creative Writing and Translation at the University of Arkansas, has been awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship of $25,000...
by Andra Liwag | Oct 4, 2019 | Alumni Awards & Achievements, Faculty Points of Pride, Student Awards & Achievements
The Mid-America Arts Alliance recently announced the recipients of it 2019 Artists 360 Awards, recognizing 20 top performing, visual and literary artists from across Northwest Arkansas – including 12 talented students, faculty and alumni from the J. William Fulbright...
by Andra Liwag | Sep 13, 2019 | Dean's Corner, Faces of Fulbright, Q & A
Jacob Shores-ArgüelloWriter and 2011 Graduate of the Creative Writing M.F.A. ProgramShores-Argüello, a graduate of the Program in Creative Writing and Translation, is the recipient of the 2018 Lannan Literary Fellowship for Poetry, a $100,000 prize.In this...
by Andra Liwag | Apr 3, 2019 | Alumni, Alumni Awards & Achievements, Dean's Corner, Faces of Fulbright, Q & A
Chelsea Rathburn Poet Laureate of Georgia, 2001 Graduate of the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing and Translation In this conversation, Rathburn talks about being an ambassador for the literary arts in Georgia as the state’s poet laureate, her three poetry...
by David Jolliffe | Feb 21, 2018 | Community Outreach, Outreach & Impact
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – A project initiated by the Brown Chair in English Literacy called SISTA — Students Involved in Sustaining Their Arkansas — now entering its third year, involves high school students throughout Arkansas in projects that promise to revitalize their...