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SUMMARY:Launch Event for We Did It First: Poems from Poets of Mobile\, Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Fifty local writers are featured in an anthology of poems\, catalogued by Charlotte Pence\, director of the Stokes Center for Creative Writing at the University of South Alabama and Mobile’s Inaugural Poet Laureate.\n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch event on April 17\, showcasing authors in the anthology\, including University of South Alabama’s Caleb Johnson\, Richard Hillyer\, Deborah Ferguson\, Heather Dail\, Adam Prince\, and Charlotte Pence.\n\n\n\nThe event is happening at the Mobile Arts Council Gallery on April 17th at 5:30pm in Room 1927.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/launch-event-for-we-did-it-first-poems-from-poets-of-mobile-alabama/
LOCATION:Mobile Arts Council Gallery\, 6 S. Joachim Street\, Mobile\, AL\, 36602\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Croft to Read at the Stokes Center for Creative Writing
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Croft will give a reading\, sponsored by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing\, on Thursday\, April 10\, 2025\, at 5:00 p.m. in the University of South Alabama’s Student Center Terrace Room. Croft won a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship for her novel The Extinction of Irena Rey\, the 2020 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing for her illustrated memoir Homesick\, and the 2018 International Booker Prize for her translation from Polish of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk’s Flights. She is also the translator of Federico Falco’s A Perfect Cemetery\, Romina Paula’s August\, Pedro Mairal’s The Woman from Uruguay\, and Olga Tokarczuk’s The Books of Jacob (a finalist for the Kirkus Prize). In 2023\, she received an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. She lives in Tulsa\, Oklahoma with her husband and twins. Following the reading\, there will be a book-signing and reception. \n 
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/jennifer-croft-to-read-at-the-stokes-center-for-creative-writing/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Terrace Room
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SUMMARY:Fiction reading and book signing by novelist Daniel Wallace\, author of "Big Fish\," Feb. 4\, University of South Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Daniel Wallace will give a fiction reading at the University of South Alabama on February 4\, 2025\, at 5:30 p.m. The J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, Wallace is the author of six novels\, including Big Fish (1998) and Extraordinary Adventures (2017). Tim Burton’s movie adaptation of Big Fish was released to great acclaim in 2003\, and the film served as the basis for a subsequent Broadway musical. Wallace’s stories and novels have been translated into many languages\, and his illustrations have appeared in the Los Angeles Times\, Garden & Gun\, and other venues. His most recent book\, a memoir titled This Isn’t Going to End Well\, was published by Algonquin books in April 2023.\nPlease note: this free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room with a book signing and reception to follow.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/fiction-reading-and-book-signing-by-novelist-daniel-wallace-author-of-big-fish-feb-4-university-of-south-alabama/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Terrace Room
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SUMMARY:Fiction Writer Yuri Herrera to Read at University of South Alabama Visiting Writer Series\, November 13\, 5:30 p.m.
DESCRIPTION:Yuri Herrera – Stokes Center for Creative Writing 2024-2025 Visiting Writers Series \nWednesday | November 13\, 2024 \nTime: 5:30 pm \nLocation: Student Center Terrace Room \nYuri Herrera (Actopan\, México\, 1970). Has written three novels\, all of them translated into several languages: Kingdom Cons\, Signs Preceding the End of the World\, and Transmigration of Bodies; which have been published in English by And Other Stories. In 2016 he shared with translator Lisa Dillman the Best translated Book Award for the translation of Signs Preceding the End of the World. That same year he received the Anna Seghers Prize at the Academy of Arts of Berlin\, for the body of his work. His latest books are A Silent Fury: The El Bordo Mine Fire\, Ten Planets\, and La estación del pantano (Season of the Swamp). He is a professor of creative writing and literature at Tulane University\, in New Orleans. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/8545719675540770/?ref=newsfeed
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/fiction-writer-yuri-herrera-to-read-at-university-of-south-alabama-visiting-writer-series-november-13-530-p-m/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Terrace Room
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SUMMARY:Poetry Reading at University of South Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Major and Didi Jackson – Thursday\, October 3\, 2024 – 5:30pm \nJoin us for two powerhouse poets in one evening! Major Jackson is the author of six books of poetry\, most recently Razzle Dazzle: New & Selected Poems. He is also the author of A Beat Beyond: The Selected Prose of Major Jackson edited by Amor Kohli. A recipient of fellowships from the Academy of American Poets\, John S. Guggenheim Foundation\, National Endowment for the Arts\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, Major Jackson is the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Chair in the Humanities at Vanderbilt University. He is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He serves as the Poetry Editor of The Harvard Review. \nDidi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review\, Bomb\, The New Yorker\, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Nashville\, Tennessee\, and teaches creative writing at Vanderbilt University. \nPlease note: this free event will be held in the Student Center Terrace Room with a book signing and reception to follow. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/2277137859353105/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[]%7D
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/poetry-reading-at-university-of-south-alabama/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Terrace Room
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SUMMARY:Stokes Center for Creative Writing to Feature Novelist Annie Hartnett
DESCRIPTION:Novelist Annie Hartnett will give a fiction reading followed by a book signing and reception on April 4\, 2024\, at 6:00 p.m. in Student Center Terrace Room at the University of South Alabama. Hartnett is the author of the novels Rabbit Cake (Tin House Books) and Unlikely Animals (Ballantine/Random House)\, listed as one of the best books of 2022 by the Washington Post and BookRiot and long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Hartnett has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony\, Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. She is co-host of the writing and parenting podcast Good Moms on Paper and also an amateur cartoonist. Her reading is sponsored by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing. \n  \nFor more information\, please visit our website: \nhttps://www.southalabama.edu/colleges/artsandsci/english/stokes.html \n\n\n\n\n\nStokes | English Department\nWebpage for the Stokes Center for Creative Writing\, housed in the Department of English at the University of South Alabama\nwww.southalabama.edu
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/stokes-center-for-creative-writing-to-feature-novelist-annie-hartnett/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Terrace Room
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SUMMARY:A Reading by Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:“There are two kinds of readers in America: those who are reading Percival Everett\, and those who are missing out.” \n–National Book Critics Circle Judges Citation \nOn Tuesday\, January 30 at 6:00p the Stokes Center for Creative Writing continues its 2023-24 visiting writers series with a reading by Pulitzer-Prize Finalist Percival Everett in the University of South Alabama’s Student Center Ballroom. \nThe author of more than thirty books\, Everett is one of the most prolific and provocative writers working in contemporary fiction. His soon-to-be released novel *James* is a brilliant and heartfelt reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn told from the enslaved character Jim’s perspective. Everett’s work has received almost every notable recognition in American letters\, including a Guggenheim Fellowship\, and has been called “genre-defying” by The New York Times. Everett grew up in Columbia\, South Carolina and now serves as a Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Southern California. \nThis free\, public reading\, which is co-sponsored by African American Studies and made possible by a grant from the Alabama State Council on the Arts\, will feature a reception and a book signing at its conclusion. Please make plans to join us\, and bring along your book-ish friends! \nFor more information on the Stokes Center for Creative Writing\, follow us on Facebook (facebook.com/stokescenterforcreativewriting) and Instagram (@stokescenterforcreativewriting). You can also subscribe to our YouTube channel where craft talks and readings are shared. If you would like to be added to our email list\, please email Mary Ricciardi at: mricciardi@southalabama.edu.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/a-reading-by-percival-everett/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Ballroom\, 350 Alumni Drive\, Mobile\, AL\, 36608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fiction reading and book signing by award-winning author Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Percival Everett will give a fiction reading followed by a book signing and reception on Tuesday\, January 30\, 2024\, at 6:00 p.m. in the University of South Alabama’s Student Center Ballroom. Everett has published more than thirty books\, including Dr. NO\, The Trees\, Telephone\, So Much Blue\, I Am Not Sidney Poitier\, and Erasure. Among his awards are the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle\, the Dos Passos Prize\, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction\, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction. In their remarks on Everett’s fiction\, reviewers often cite his satirical brilliance and genre-defying work\, work that expands our culture’s ways of thinking. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship\, Everett is currently Distinguished Professor of English at University of Southern California. This event is free and open to the public.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/fiction-reading-and-book-signing-by-award-winning-author-percival-everett/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Ballroom\, 350 Alumni Drive\, Mobile\, AL\, 36608\, United States
ORGANIZER;CN="Stokes Center for Creative Writing":MAILTO:aprince@southalabama.edu
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SUMMARY:Reading by Ben Raines\, University of South Alabama’s Environmental Fellow/Writer-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, September 26\, 2023 at 5:00 P.M.\nLocation: MacQueen Alumni Center\nBook Signing and Reception to Follow \nThe University of South Alabama is proud to welcome our new Environmental Fellow/Writer-in-Residence\, Ben Raines\, who will be giving a reading on Tuesday\, September 26\, 2023\, at 5:00 P.M. in the MacQueen Alumni Center. A book signing and reception will follow this free event\, sponsored by the Stokes Center for Creative Writing. \nRaines is an accomplished filmmaker and writer who recently published _Saving America’s Amazon: The Threat to Our Nation’s Most Biodiverse River System_ (NewSouth Books\, 2020) and _The Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How Clotilda Was Found\, Her Descendants\, and an Extraordinary Reckoning_ (Simon & Schuster\, 2023). Raines has also written and directed _The Underwater Forest_\, an award-winning film about the exploration of a 70\,000-year-old cypress forest found off the Alabama coast\, and written and produced the documentary _America’s Amazon_. An experienced environmental journalist and filmmaker\, Raines highlights Alabama’s landscape as one of the richest and most diverse regions in the world\, inspiring action regarding how we can better preserve this landscape and its communities.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-by-ben-raines-university-of-south-alabamas-environmental-fellow-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama’s MacQueen Alumni Center\, 100 Alumni Dr.\, Mobile\, AL\, 36608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading by Ashley M. Jones\, Poet Laureate of Alabama
DESCRIPTION:Ashley M. Jones will share poems from her powerful books: Magic City Gospel (Hub City Press\, 2017)\, dark // thing (Pleiades Press\, 2019)\, and REPARATIONS NOW! (Hub City Press\, 2021). Her poetry has earned several awards\, including the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award\, the Silver Medal in the Independent Publishers Book Awards\, the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry\, and the Lucille Clifton Legacy Award. Featured on several news outlets including Good Morning America\, ABC News\, and the BBC\, Jones lives in Birmingham where she is the Associate Director of the University Honors Program at UAB.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-by-ashley-m-jones-poet-laureate-of-alabama/
LOCATION:University of South Alabama\, Student Center Ballroom\, 350 Alumni Drive\, Mobile\, AL\, 36608\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading with Neema Avashia
DESCRIPTION:Neema is originally from West Virginia and currently lives in Boston where she is an educator and activist. She received a finalist nomination for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Memoir/Biography for her book Another Appalachia: Coming up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/reading-with-neema-avashia/
LOCATION:Online\, NC
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