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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.
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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 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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