Every year in November, UNCW holds it's annual Writer's Week, a week where the Creative Writing classes are cancelled so that different speakers from the Creative Writing field can come speak to the students and Creative Writing BFA students can read their works.

Throughout Writer's Week, there are different panels such as an MFA panel and the Buckner Speakers (which included Mei Fong and Chinelo Okparanta). For five days, there are various panels that Creative Writing students--and other students, faculty and staff--are encouraged to go to. Sometimes, the instructors assign little summaries to the students detailing what they thought of their experience and the topics that the authors and professionals spoke on.

All events before 7 p.m. took place on UNCW's campus at Warwick Ballroom 1. Other events took place in King Hall, Morton Hall, Cameron Hall, and the Computer Information Systems Building.

Each day represented at least one new event for the week. On day one, there was a fiction craft talk; a reading from the students of the Master's course; a panel from other MFA students; and a Lookout Launch of Clare Beams' short story collection We Show What We Have Learned.

Day two held a SouthArts Teaching Creative Writing talk; a reading from various students in the Creative Writer's Bachelor's program, which had the biggest audience of past Writer's Week events; a creative non-fiction craft talk; and a creative non-fiction reading followed by and Q&A session.

Day three was mostly poetry, with a poetry craft talk, environmental writing and film, and a poetry reading.

The fourth day was a craft panel with Chinelo Okparanta, Nina deGramont and Mei Fong; a faculty reading involving Tim Bass, Philip Furia and David Gessner; and a Buckner Keynote reading and Q&A with Mei Fong and Chinelo Okparanta.

The last day had only one event, and that was a career panel from the staff of Chautauqua Literary Magazine.