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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 31/08/2026

Writers of literature for children, teens, and young adults: Interested in learning about a low-residency MFA program that can help you build a sustainable life of creation in community? Check out @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social! Now accepting applications for Spring 2027 🙏🏽

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

We’re gearing up for our August residency on the @unevadareno.bsky.social at Lake Tahoe campus, and we can’t wait to welcome this phenomenal lineup of faculty, along with our students, alumni, and community members—watch this space! ✨

SUMMER RESIDENCY LINEUP
August 7 - 16, 2026

Writers in the Woods
Visiting Author:
Lauren Hough

Poetry Workshop:
Faylita Hicks

Fiction Workshop:
Claire Stanford

Fiction Workshop:
Brendan Basham

Creative Nonfiction Workshop:
Krystal Sital

Writing for Children and Young Adults Workshop:
Traci Chee

pedagogy:
Suzanne Roberts

Speculative Fiction Elective:
Naseem Jamnia
University of Nevada, Reno
Creative Writing Program
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts at Lake Tahoe

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Pssstttt... the tiny press I work at, which is becoming a QUEER WORKER-OWNED COOPERATIVE PRESS!!! (we're just waiting for the paperwork to file), is launching its ten-year anniversary kickstarter soon!! It's REALLY GOOD and REALLY COOL and the layout is BEAUTIFUL www.kickstarter.com/projects/swo...

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Coming soon: Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press

An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 11/04/2026

I’m deeply grateful to Tavis Smiley for this soul-stirring conversation. Link to the full interview (which begins at 1:35:55): www.youtube.com/live/UyqjCO1...

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 09/04/2026

YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE FOR THIS SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: I’m scheduled to join the one and only Tavis Smiley in conversation live tomorrow morning on @kbla at 10:30 am PT, and you can tune in there, on KBLA1580.com, the KBLA app, and YouTube.com/@KBLA1580

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KBLA | KBLA TALK 1580

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 08/03/2026

We have another memorable #AWP on the books (so to speak), with fun, games, book signings, and so many friends—including THEE @janefriedman.com 🙌🏽 Here are a few candid highlights ✨

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 05/03/2026

Because who doesn't love a giveaway? Our jumbo canvas tote can be yours if you're one of the first 20 people to visit us at #AWP26 booth 553, provide your email address, and follow us on social media! 💯

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Abby White @abbywhitewrites.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

So excited to join #AWP26 with @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social! Come see me and buy a ✨ signed & personalized ✨ copy of D.J. ROSENBLUM BECOMES THE G.O.A.T. from 4-5pm on Thursday!

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The Sierra Nevada Review @sierranevadareview.com · 28/02/2026

Issue #40 drops tomorrow once our managing editor wakes up. We go live after the cats have been fed. Thank you so much to all our contributors. We will be promoting full on here and at AWP.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 28/02/2026

Who’s going to #AWP26 in Baltimore next week? Come see us at booth #553, feat. me + Marie Myung-Ok Lee, @abbywhitewrites.bsky.social, @rebeccawrites33.bsky.social, @thepapayathief.bsky.social, @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social Founding Director Brian Turner, and fresh new merch 😮‍💨

University of Nevada, Reno
Creative Writing Program
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts at Lake Tahoe
2026 AWP SCHEDULE
BOOTH #553
FACULTY & ALUMNI AUTHOR SIGNINGS
11AM THU 3/5
MARIE MYUNG-OK LEE: HURT YOU & THE EVENING HERO
4PM THU 3/5
ABBY WHITE: D.J. ROSENBLUM
BECOMES THE G.O.A.T.
11AM I
REBECCA EVANS: AFTERBURN
FRI 3/6
ADDITIONAL FACULTY IN ATTENDANCE:
LETA MCCOLLOUGH SELETZKY, BRIAN TURNER AND BRENDAN SHAY BASHAM

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The Sierra Nevada Review @sierranevadareview.com · 22/02/2026

Coming March 1st

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 05/02/2026

Want to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program at @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social can help you prepare for a sustainable life of creation? Join us at our upcoming info session on Wed. 2/18 from 11 am—noon PT! Eventbrite link: www.eventbrite.com/e/unr-low-re...

LOW-RES CREATIVE WRITING MFA INFO
SESSION

FEB 18 2026
1IAM
VIRTUAL EVENT
REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE
LINK IN BIO

University of Nevada, Reno
Creative Writing Program
Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts at Lake Tahoe

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Brian @rabblehauser.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Every American should know her story. She was the best of us.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Kavanaugh Stop

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 09/01/2026

It’s DAY SIX of our January 2026 residency, and in addition to our usual courses, we joined Hayden Takahashi in exuberant celebration following a successful final manuscript defense. We also joined forces with the Interdisciplinary Arts program! Here are a few candid highlights ✨

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 08/01/2026

It’s DAY FIVE of our January 2026 residency, conference day in our workshops and a chance to contemplate our urgent call as practitioners of the arts: to reflect the times in which we live, in the words of the great Nina Simone. Here are a few candid highlights ✨

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Naseem Jamnia (they/them) THE GLADE WON THE IGNYTE! @jamsternazzy.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

I gotta tell you, this program is really something special. These last few days have been borderline magical, making me feel like I did when I was a @lambdaliterary.org fellow

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 05/01/2026

DAY TWO of our January 2026 @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social residency, with workshops in fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, writing for children and young adults, and more! And it’s the first evening of Writers in the Woods, featuring @wralpheubanks.bsky.social A few candid highlights from today:

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 04/01/2026

This is where I am, y’all! And follow @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social to learn everything you always wanted to know about low-residency creative writing MFA programs but were afraid to ask 🫣

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Welcome to our January 2026 residency! Join us for an up-close look at what we do: DAY ONE. We’re kicking off ten days of intensive study, enriching events, and community-building with a welcome dinner and campus tour. Here are a few candid highlights ✨

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 25/11/2025

Just doing a solid, competent job on a reasonably consistent basis makes you extraordinary. (In other words, don’t put so much pressure on yourself)

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 29/10/2025

Join us this Friday—and I WILL be in costume for this 👀

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

⏰ LAST CALL! Want to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program can help you hone your craft as you prepare for a sustainable life of creation? Join us this Friday, Oct. 31 (HALLOWEEN 🎃) at 11 am PT for our last virtual info session of the year—sign up here: bit.ly/3WZouw6

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Low Residency MFA-CW Info Session: Oct 31

Join us to learn more about the low-residency program at UNR! Apply by November 1st for a January 2026 start date.

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Apply now—and drop a comment if you have any questions!

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 21/10/2025

⏰ Two info sessions left—don't miss out! Join @unr_lowresmfacw and me to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program can help you hone your craft as you prepare for a sustainable life of creation 🙏🏽 Next up: TOMORROW, Oct. 21 at 11:30 am PT—sign up here: bit.ly/47AxNZu

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Low Residency MFA-CW Info Session: Oct 21

Join us to learn more about the low-residency program at UNR! Apply by November 1st for a January 2026 start date.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 18/10/2025

For me, writing is not an end but a means—of HUMAN connection. Many thanks to Entrepreneurial Thinkers and @iamrobryan.bsky.social for this conversation 🙏🏽 (LINK to the full convo: youtu.be/othv4kma_WE)

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 14/10/2025

TOMORROW 10/15 from 5–6 pm PT! Want to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program can help you hone your craft as you prepare for a sustainable life of creation? Join me and @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social at an upcoming info session 🙏🏽 Sign up here: bit.ly/4n6nHEd

MFA-CW INFO SESSIONS
OCT 10 10:00AM-11:00AM
OCT 15 5:00PM-6:00PM
OCT 21 11:30AM-12:30PM
OCT 31 11:00AM-12:00PM

REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: LINK IN BIO
JOIN US ON ZOOM!
PACIFIC STANDARD

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

We’re so thrilled that @awpwriter.bsky.social has awarded alum John Bonanni the 2025 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry for his manuscript, retrovirology. Huge congratulations on this momentous achievement! 🎉

AWP
Donald Hall Prize for
Poetry
Donald Hall Prize for Poetry: $5,500 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press
2025 Winner
Winner: John Bonanni
retrovirology
John Bonanni is a Cape Cod-based writer who serves as founding editor of the Cape Cod Review. His poems have appeared in Foglifter, Black Warrior Review, Southern Indiana Review, Washington Square
Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review, and Gulf Coast, and his literary criticism has been featured in DIAGRAM, Denver Quarterly, The Rumpus, and The Kenyon Review. He is the recipient of scholarships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and residencies from AS220 and the John Hay Writing Studio. His research on poetry as an intervention for writing attitudes among learners with severe disabilities can be found in The Graduate Review (Bridgewater State University, and his chapbook, a rotary phone that dings when you move it (Cape Cod Editions), was funded by a matching grant from the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod and the National Endowment for the…

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 13/10/2025

By the way, we’re accepting applications now for the spring 2026 term! In the words of Nina Simone, “An artist’s duty is to reflect the times in which we live.” We invite you to answer the call in community with us. The final application deadline is Nov. 1 🙏🏽 Apply here: www.unr.edu/liberal-arts...

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Applications and Admissions | Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing

Learn how to apply to to the low-residency MFA in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 13/10/2025

NEXT UP: this Wed. 10/15 from 5–6 pm PT! Want to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program can help you hone your craft as you prepare for a sustainable life of creation? Join me and @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social at an upcoming info session! Sign up here: bit.ly/4n6nHEd

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

We’re so extremely proud of faculty member @cathylinhche and the phenomenal news that her book Becoming Ghost is a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry—huge congratulations on this momentous achievement 🙏🏽

76th Nationail Book Awards Finalists
BecomingGhost
Cathy Linh Che
Washington Square Press /
Simon & Schuster
CATHY LINH CHE
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
Poetry

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Thrilled to kick off Writers in the Woods with @letaseletzky.com, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir THE KNEELING MAN, a Library Journal Best Book of 2023, BookPage Best Book of 2023, Black Caucus of the Am. Library Assn. Honor Book for Nonfiction, and Hurston/Wright Legacy Award finalist 📚

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 05/10/2025

It’s been a singular honor to lead this weekend’s Writers in the Woods workshop at UNR Lake Tahoe. Last night’s reading felt particularly momentous, not only because I began writing THE KNEELING MAN on this campus but also because current events are mirroring those in my book in a powerful way

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 03/10/2025

TOMORROW NIGHT! Reno/Tahoe people (and beyond), hope to see you there! Friday, October 3 6 to 7:30 pm University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe Prim Library Mezzanine Free and open to all Link to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/writers-in...

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 01/10/2025

RENO/TAHOE PEOPLE, I hope to see you there! Friday, October 3 6 to 7:30 pm University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe Prim Library Mezzanine University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe Free and open to all

Writers in the Woods presents
Leta McCollough Seletzky
Friday, October 3/ 6-7:30 pm/ Incline Village, NV
Prim Library Mezzanine free and open to all
THE
KNEELING MAN
My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
LETA MCCOLLOUGH SELETZKY
*A searing portrait of a man divided berween his country and his identiry
Leta McCollough Seletzky is a National Endowment for the Arts 2022 Creative Writing Fellow and author of The Kneeling Man: My Father's Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a Library Journal Best Book of 2023, BookPage Best Book of 2023, and Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and elsewhere, and she serves as director of the low-residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at the University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe.
University of Nevada, Reno
College of Liberal Arts
ARTS | SOCIAL SCIENCES | HUMANITIES
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University of Nevada, Reno AT LAKE TAHOE
Threads @la_seletzky
IG @la_seletzky
Bluesky letaseletzky.com
Website letaseletzky.com

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Want to learn more about how our low-residency creative writing MFA program can help you hone your craft as you prepare for a sustainable life of creation? Join us at one of our upcoming info sessions! First up: Fri., Oct. 10 at 10 am PT—sign up here 🙏🏽: www.eventbrite.com/e/low-reside...

Low-Residency Program
@unr_lowresmfacw
MFA-CW INFO SESSIONS
OCT 10 10:00AM-11:00AM
OCT 15 5:00PM-6:00PM
OCT 21 11:30AM-12:30PM
OCT 31 11:00AM-12:00PM

REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE: LINK IN BIO
JOIN US ON ZOOM!
PACIFIC STANDARD TIME

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Join us for Writers in the Woods as we welcome @letaseletzky.com, author of the critically-acclaimed memoir THE KNEELING MAN, a Library Journal Best Book of 2023, BookPage Best Book of 2023, and Black Caucus of the American Library Association Honor Book for Nonfiction 🙏🏽

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Leta McCollough Seletzky @letaseletzky.com · 17/09/2025

Are you a writer looking to hone your craft in community? Apply now for spring term—and drop a comment or send me a DM if you’d like to discuss! (I’m the director, by the way.) See below for more info and share with those you think might be interested 🙏🏽

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unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social @unrlowresmfacw.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

This is our first post! 🎉 We’re accepting applications now for the spring term of our Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program! We invite you to create in community with us. Drop a comment if you would like to know more, and more info is available here: bit.ly/48mSEAl

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Applications and Admissions | Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing

Learn how to apply to to the low-residency MFA in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno.

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