Kenny Fries Visiting Writer

MFAW-VT faculty member Kenny Fries will be Visiting Writer at King’s College in Wilkes-Barre, PA next week. During his time at King’s, Kenny will meet with faculty and students, visit two writing classes, and give a public reading on April 17, 7:30pm,...

News from MFAW-WA Student Lydia Valentine

MFAW-WA student Lydia Valentine is  the Assistant Director for a production of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris.  She is also ​the dramaturg for a staged reading that is pairing The Art of Remembering by Adina L. Ruskin and Mountain Language by Harold Pinter. Family,...

My Mom Died and All I Got Was a Wet T-Shirt

My mom died three years ago and long before then, I knew I’d be writing about how it would all go down. Somehow, so did she. I was barely a teen, when after a particularly disturbing episode in our family’s constant chaos, my mother jerked my elbow towards her oversized chest and through her teeth spat, “Don’t you EVER write about this!!”