MFAW News
Novel by Walker MFA ’03 to Become 2018 AMC Series AMC has greenlit 10 episodes of Dietland—adapted from the 2015 novel by Sarai Walker MFA ’03—to be written and produced by Marti Noxon, producer of such hit series as Mad Men, UnREAL, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, among others.
Book by Haas MFA ’07 Being Adapted for FilmA book by Jeffrey Haas MFA ’07 on the 1969 assassination of Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Black Panther Party, is being developed into a movie by Antoine Fuqua, director of Training Day, The Equalizer, and The Magnificent Seven.
Wunderlich Named Director of the Writing SeminarsBennington College announced today that poet Mark Wunderlich has been named the next director of the Bennington Writing Seminars, the College’s MFA program in writing.
"I Need to Woman Up" An essay by asha bandele MFA ’99 on facing the biggest fear of her life was read by actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson on WBUR’s Modern Love podcast.
“Two People and a Thing”Writing Seminars faculty member Alice Mattison offers a lesson on writing climactic moments in Signature magazine.