Montana MFA

Unoffical MFA Music Video of the Week

2008-01-16T01:00:00.000-08:00

Unofficial MFA Book of the Month: The Road by Cormac McCarthy

2008-01-12T19:38:00.000-08:00

Andy Smetanka & New Lakes this Friday

2008-01-03T13:49:00.000-08:00

COMING THIS FIRST FRIDAY...

FORWARD MONTANA presents

an exhibition of hand-cut silhouette prints by ANDY SMETANKA
with an opening reception reading by the New Lakes
curated by ADELAIDE EVERY

readings by GRACE EGBERT, JEREMY PATAKY,
BRANDON SHIMODA, HEATHER TONE and MIKE WANZENRIED

First Friday, January 4, 5-8 pm (reading at 7 pm)
Forward Montana, 736 South Higgins Avenue, Missoula

Andy Smetanka's prints will be available for viewing January 2-31st.

Spread the word...

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For more information, visit:
www.forwardmontana.org
thenewlakes.blogspot.com

Happy Holidays Everybody!

2007-12-17T15:42:00.000-08:00

Reading This Wednesday

2007-12-03T12:02:00.000-08:00

READING THIS WEDNESDAY:

MATTHEW ECK, writer and UM MFA (’02) graduate
is reading this Wednesday, December 5, 7 p.m.
at Shakespeare & Company, 103 South 3rd Street West

Matthew will be reading from A FARTHER SHORE, a novel of warfare in Somalia in the early 1990’s. A FARTHER SHORE was the winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize, and was selected for Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Series.

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MATTHEW ECK enlisted in the Army in 1992 and served in Somalia and Haiti. He has a BA in English Literature from Wichita State University and received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Montana. He currently teaches Creative Writing and Literature at the University of Central Missouri. He lives in Kansas City.

Second Wind Season Finale

2007-11-30T20:54:00.000-08:00

Please join us for the semester finale of the Second Wind Reading
Series, featuring fiction and poetry by:

CLAUDE ALICK

LAURIE WHITE

and

JIM BLANKS

Claude Alick was born on the Island of Grenada in the Southern
Caribbean. In 2006 Claude published a collection of short stories
entitled WET STORAGE AND OTHER STORIES. Wet Storage was a finalist in
the International Self Published Book Awards, sponsored by Writers
Digest Magazine. He lives in Missoula.

Laurie White is a second year poet in the University of Montana's
M.F.A program, while
Jim Blanks is a second year fiction writer.

The Palace
147 W. Broadway
6:30 pm

Happy Thanksgiving!

2007-11-20T17:06:00.000-08:00

Second Wind Reading

2007-11-15T10:00:00.000-08:00

This weekend we are happy to present:

Robert Stubblefield & Bradin Farnworth reading at the Palace.

Robert Stubblefield has published fiction and personal essays in Best
American Stories of the West, Dreamers and Desperadoes: Contemporary
Short Fiction of the American West, Hayden's Ferry Review, Left Bank,
The Clackamas Literary Review, Cascadia Times, Oregon Humanities, Open
Spaces , Oregon Salmon: Essays on the State of the Fish at the Turn of
the Millenium, and High Desert Journal among others. In 1994 he
received an M.F.A in fiction from the University of Montana, where he
currently teaches creative writing and composition.

Bradin Farnworth is a second year fiction writer in the M.F.A program
at the University of Montana.

Please join us at:

The Palace 147 West Broadway

on:

Sunday 11/18 *** 6:30 pm

UNOFFICIAL Video of the Week

2007-11-13T16:25:00.000-08:00

Compliments of Kevin Canty:

After viewing that the world aches just a little bit more.

Great Review of Alum Novel

2007-11-13T16:20:00.000-08:00

Re: Matthew Eck's The Farther Shore.

"*Starred Review* Three American soldiers are stranded in a war-blasted desert city in Africa. The heat, the sand, the impenetrable darkness are all exacting a toll. The enemy is everyone and anyone, even your comrades. The mission is vague, preposterous. The people are starving, desperate, and violent, tyrannized by warlords and clan loyalty. Packs of emaciated dogs roam through smoking ruins. All is obscured by haze, dust, and fear. Josh, a good boy from Wichita, Kansas, struggles to stay rational, vigilant, honorable. Santiago, their lieutenant, tells him, "Stop thinking so much." Their situation goes from bad to worse to all-out nightmare as they barely escape the city and set out for the sea. Every word in Eck's first novel is as solid as a stone. Every moment of crisis feels authentic in its terror and tragedy; indeed, Eck served as a soldier in Somalia at age 18. Heir to Hemingway, and damn near as powerful as Cormac McCarthy in The Road (2006), Eck has created a contemporary version of The Red Badge of Courage in this tale of one young man's trial by fire in the pandemonium of war in an age of high-tech weaponry and low-grade morality." -- Donna Seaman, Booklist