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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/
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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/
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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/
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Fiction Reading by Dionne Irving
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed fiction writer Dionne Irving will read from her latest short story collection\, Islands\, which explores colonialism\, immigration\, sexual discrimination\, and class in the lives of Jamaican women who emigrate to London\, Panama\, France\, Jamaica\, and Florida. Her other work includes the novel Quint\, based on a real-life Canadian family of quintuplets who became celebrities in the 1940s\, and the essays such as “Treading Water” and “Do You Like to Hurt?” which were Notable essays in Best American Essay 2017 and 2019.
URL:https://writersforum.org/event/fiction-reading-by-dionne-irving/
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