{"id":22638,"date":"2022-08-16T15:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T15:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=22638"},"modified":"2025-04-11T09:25:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T16:25:14","slug":"mfa-alum-mccarthy-publishes-a-summoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/news\/2022\/08\/16\/mfa-alum-mccarthy-publishes-a-summoning","title":{"rendered":"MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy publishes her first book, A Summoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mfa-alum-mccarthy-publishes-a-summoning.jpg\" alt=\"mfa alum mccarthy publishes a summoning\" class=\"wp-image-24341\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicole McCarthy&#8217;s (MFA 2017) first book, <a href=\"https:\/\/heavyfeatherreview.org\/portfolio\/a-summoning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Summoning<\/a>, has just been published by Heavy Feather Review. An expansion of McCarthy\u2019s <a href=\"\/mfa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MFA in Creative Writing &amp; Poetics<\/a> thesis, \u201cManor of Memory,\u201d the book asks Can we re-write a memory? Can we purge those that are a danger to us? Mudding the line between fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, text and image, the book is fragmented but fluid, weaving in and out of different forms to show how malleable and unreliable memory can be; how it manifests in the body, mentally, physically, emotionally; how it mutates and betrays as we age. Through a series of scientific and historical essays, poetic meditations, and memory experiments, McCarthy invites the reader to encounter her attempt at rewriting moments of trauma while coming to terms with a family member in the early stages of memory loss.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis book would not exist without the dedication and generosity of Renee Gladman, Amaranth Borsuk, Rebecca Brown, and many others in the MFA program. I\u2019ll be forever grateful for the guidance and constant support I\u2019ve received,\u201d writes McCarthy. While working with thesis advisor Renee Gladman, McCarthy started building out memory blueprints, visuals built with texts, encompassing memories she felt locked in her body like different rooms of a house. When she shared these with Gladman, McCarthy says, \u201cShe told me I was on to something and to keep pushing on this exploration of memory, and that\u2019s when I felt my book begin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/03\/Summoning-Exerpt.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24967\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/03\/Summoning-Exerpt.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/03\/Summoning-Exerpt-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>\nMcCarthy wanted to create a conceptual nonfiction book about how unreliable memory can be as it lives in our bodies, and about the desire to change certain memories: painful ones from an abusive past relationship, fresh ones to protect, even memories she didn\u2019t have but wished she did. That\u2019s when McCarthy decided she would experiment with her own memories through exercises in the book and through the process of frequent recall, with the idea that over time her memories will have adapted to some of the changes that appear in the text. The scientific and historical micro essays woven throughout the book serve as the foundation to support her theory that memories can be permanently altered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nicolemccarthypoet.com\/\">Learn more about McCarthy and read excerpts from her work at her website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book launch will take place at King&#8217;s Books in Tacoma on August 20, 2022 at 7pm. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kingsbookstore.com\/event\/nicolemccarthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicole McCarthy&#039;s (MFA 2017) first book, A Summoning, has just been published by Heavy Feather Review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_is_archived":false,"_archived_contact_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,4],"tags":[],"school":[],"class_list":["post-22638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-creative-writing-and-poetics","category-students"],"acf":{"related_links":{"toggle_visibility":false,"link_1":"","link_2":"","link_3":"","link_4":"","link_5":""},"highlight_box":{"toggle_visibility":false,"title":"","content":"","button":"","button_style":"angled-purple-button","button_screen_reader_text":""},"contact_type_1":{"toggle_visibility":true,"contact_title":"Contact Type","email":"sample@uwb.edu","phone":"(206) 999-9999","box":"Box 358500","address_line_1":"18115 Campus Way NE","address_line_2":"Bothell, WA 98011-8246","location":""},"contact_type_2":{"toggle_visibility":false,"contact_title":"","email":"","phone":"","box":"","address_line_1":"","address_line_2":"","location":""},"social_media":{"toggle_visibility":false,"facebook_url":"","instagram_url":"","linkedin_url":"","twitter_url":"","youtube_url":""},"blog_archive_sidebar_visibility":false},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MFA Alum Nicole McCarthy publishes her first book, A Summoning - School of Interdisciplinary Arts &amp; 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