Launching A Writer’s Craft, 2nd Edition Now that there is a cover for the second edition of A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing, it was time to also build out a page on my website for the book.

Launching A Writer’s Craft, 2nd Edition

Now that there is a cover for the second edition of A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing, it was time to also build out a page on my website for the book.

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It's almost time for the 38th Annual Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium at Mississippi University for Women. What a fantastic line-up! Fee and open to all! #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #southernwriters #writingcommunity

Here's the cover of my 2nd Edition of A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing! Head over to my Substack to read more about the process of creating it. kendalldunkelberg.substack.com/p/cover-reve...

T. K. Lee is featured today in Lauren Rhoades' Substack magazine, Rooted. Congratulations! rooted.substack.com/p/mississipp...

Mississippi Native: T.K. Lee

"When you’re from Mississippi, you are Mississippi. Which means, I find Mississippi to be an intricate and complicated topic to talk about because I find it hard to separate myself from it."

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For a recap of my Mississippi Book Festival and other updates from September, head over to my Substack. kendalldunkelberg.substack.com/p/fun-at-the...

It was nice to see my poem "Crow" is the featured poem on Fernwood Press's daily poetry email. Sign up to get a poem in your inbox www.fernwoodpress.com

I’m at work on the final proofs for my textbook, A Writer’s Craft, 2nd Edition. I couldn’t say how many times I’ve read it through. I still enjoy it!

How I Finally Wrote a Sestina, and Why Why receiving a fellowship prompted me to finish a sestina and how I did it.

Wildness ss a form of resistance: A haibun of mine, celebrating wildness in everyday environments, is online today at Salvation South. Read iand/or listen to me read it. @salvationsouth.com www.salvationsouth.com/overgrown-ya...

Overgrown Yard Poem by Kendall Dunkelberg | Salvation South

In this overgrown yard poem, Kendall Dunkelberg answers a neighbor’s complaint with a Mississippi haibun about wildflowers, bees, and beauty.

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#Mississippians, if you haven't heard Senate candidate Scott Colom yet, you should really watch this interview. (Even if you have heard him speak, watch it anyway.) His campaign has energy. @weeknightmsnow.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVM4...

Scott Colom Joins The Weeknight on MSNow

YouTube video by Scott Colom

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I'm extremely grateful to the Mississippi Arts Commission for supporting my work with a Literary Artist Fellowship in Poetry for 2026-2027. This grant will fund time for writing, submissions, and other expenses to up my writing game this year. Thank you MAC!

This weekend, a short clip I filmed of myself was included in a music video "StarWound Machete." For a link and a little background, see my Substack. open.substack.com/pub/kendalld...

I review how Jane Friedman discusses changes to AALA rules that will go into effect next month.

New Video from Mississippi Book Festival I've added new video links for last year's MIssissippi Book Festival panel and others.

Grace Gibbons has signed a contract with Panhandle Creek Press to publish her thesis memoir, Illegitimate, in September 2027. She is also about to start working for AmeriCorps in September, doing literacy with preschoolers. Congratulations, Grace!!

It was great to see Dena Pruett at our MFA Full Residency Readings. She sent me a lit of her recent accomplishments. She's been so busy, I'll have to reply multiple times below to list them. Congratulations, Dena!!

Congratulations to Nancy Bell on two recent publications. "Tendrils" in Terrain www.terrain.org/2026/nonfict...

Tendrils - Terrain.org

In her lovely lyric essay "Tendrils," Nancy Bell weaves science and memory, wonder and strangeness, dreams and possibilities.

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What a fantastic group of writers gathered for our 2026 Full Writing Residency. 17 students, 4 faculty (and 2 students who came in just to defend their theses, not pictured). We're almost through an amazing 9 days of workshops, seminars, and readings.

Thank you, Nice Work, @wfiu.bsky.social and Tyler Lake for the chance to chat about Controlled Conversations and the need for staying hopeful. www.ipm.org/show/nicework

Yet Another Writer Scam: Fake PGH Book Fest Another scam targeting writers, this tiem from someone claiming to represent the PGH Book Fest.

Another Bright Spot on a Rainy Day A review of the reading I did with John Miller at Ernest and Hadley Books in Tuscaloosa this February provides another bright spot.

Two New Scams Targeting Writers Actually, I'm not sure these scams are new, but they are new to me, and since people seem to be interested in this kind of thing, I'll write about them. I've been super busy lately (hence, very few blog posts, sorry!) so my junk mailboxes have really piled up.…

Thanks to John Zheng for his review of Tree Fall with Birdsong at North of Oxford. northofoxford.wordpress.com/2026/04/01/t...

Tree Fall with Birdsong by Kendall Dunkelberg

By John Zheng Poet Kendall Dunkelberg’s Tree Fall with Birdsong is a collection of flora and fauna imbued with a sense of place, memories, experiences, meditations or associative thinking. It invit…

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Thanks Again, Elena Tonight, news reached me that my post about Fake Elena Ferrante got me mentioned in The Observer.

Apparently, my name was in The Observer, according to Google Alerts. All I can see is this sentence: "The writer Lee Goldberg received a similar email, as did Kendall Dunkelberg, a poet and professor, both describing being flattered first and then ..." observer.co.uk/culture/book...

The obsession with unmasking Elena Ferrante | The Observer

Her name attracts a steady stream of fakes. From death hoaxes to impersonators, the phenomenon reveals an uneasy truth: in an age that demands constant visibility from writers, Ferrante’s refusal to a...

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What an amazing list of poets nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters award this year! I feel honored just to be among such good company. www.ms-arts-letters.org/nominations1...

New Review of Tree Fall with Birdsong How I happened upon a recent user review of my recent collection of poetry.

#Tuscaloosa, today's the day for a Poetry Double Feature at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers, featuring John Miller and me. 5:30pm Don't miss it! @enhbooks.bsky.social

Next week, I'll be at #AWP26. Find me at table T984 in the #BookFair with @thewmfacw.bsky.social @ponderreview.bsky.social and @poetrysouth.bsky.social I'd love to talk about A Writer's Craft 2nd Edition or Tree Fall with Birdsong as well as our program and magazines.

Nice to see we made the Tuscaloosa News! (Scroll down to Friday,, February 27.) Thanks again to @enhbooks.bsky.social www.tuscaloosanews.com/story/entert...

What to do around Tuscaloosa for Feb. 26-March 4

'Arsenic and Old Lace,' 'A Doll's House -- Part Two,' choreographers' showcase, poetry readings and more.

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