A Lifetime to Write: Warren Wilson and the Origins of the Low-Residency MFA

by
Jeremiah Chamberlin
From the September/October 2016 issue of
Poets & Writers Magazine
8.17.16

This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the country's oldest low-residency MFA program in creative writing, established by poet Ellen Bryant Voigt in 1976 at Goddard College before relocating to Warren Wilson College in 1981. Contributing editor Jeremiah Chamberlin explores the program’s history and legendary faculty, and how it has served as a model for other low-residency programs across the country.