Creative Writing Program

Program Calendar

Look here for announcements of events and deadlines in Creative Writing, including literary readings, occasional Friday morning "workshops" on special topics (graduate writing programs, for example, or careers in writing), readings of student work, meetings of Creative Writing's standing committees; social events for majors and faculty. For more information e-mail the Creative Writing Program or call 404-727-4683.

Visitor parking available in the Fishburne Parking Deck

SPRING 2008

Author Dorothy Allison is The Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Distinguished Visiting Professor at Emory in Spring 2008. For a calendar of her events at Emory and in the Southeast during this spring, go to:

http://www.creativewriting.emory.edu/calendar/allisonpubliccalendar.html

At the Emory Libraries:

Through May 12, 2008:

Visions and Revisions: An Exhibition of Poems in Process in Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (Level 10, Woodruff Library). This exhibition, curated by Jenni Brady, traces the development through multiple manuscript drafts of a series of individual poems drawn from Emory’s collections.

Poets whose work is included in the exhibition include: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, as well as Kevin Young and Natasha Trethewey. A special thanks to Kevin and Nathasha for loaning materials for this exhibition. Visions and Revisions will remain on view through Emory’s Commencement and is open during MARBL’s regular hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.).

In addition, a small selection of items from the recently-acquired Alice Walker papers are also on view in MARBL’s reference area on Level 10 of the library.

*********************

Through May 26, 2008:

Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library
Main and Corridor Galleries (Schatten Gallery, 3rd floor, Woodruff Library)

Curated by Kevin Young, Curator, Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English

“Democratic Vistas” presents four areas of strength in the Danowski collection: First Books (and early editions); Author Collections; Isms (movements and communities); and Small Presses (and little magazines).

For more information on the Danowski Poetry Library and the exhibit, please visit the Schatten Gallery website at http://web.library.emory.edu/libraries/schatten/

CREATIVE WRITING SENIOR MAJORS' READING
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Reading
White Hall 206

Readings by Creative Writing senior majors Fatima Ahmed, Adina Fleming, Acree Graham, Hamzat Sani, Eric Stein, Andrew Swerlick and Jennifer Taylor.

CREATIVITY CONVERSATIONS

Reading by English Department professor Michael Elliott, author of Custerology; and
A Dialogue with Natasha Trethewey (Phillis Wheatley Distingiushed Chair and Professor of Poetry, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and fiction writer Dorothy Allison (Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Visiting Distinguished Professor) about their work.

Tuesday, April 15
7 p.m.
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall (third floor)

RSVP to creativity@emory.edu or 404-712-9214

Sponsors: Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts; The Creative Writing Program; Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; and Emory University Creativity & Arts Initiative

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES
RICHARD POWERS, novelist

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
READING AT AWARDS NIGHT, 8 p.m.
Cannon Chapel
Signing* and reception to follow reading

Thursday, April 17, 2008
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.,
Kemp Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund

*Please note: Mr. Powers does not autograph books, but he will autograph cards we will have available from the publisher.

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

ANDREW ZAWACKI & JULIE CARR, poets
Thursday, April 17, 2008
READING: 8:00 pm
Harris Hall Parlor

Creative Writing Program | Emory College | Emory University Home