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.

Visitor parking available in the Fishburne Parking Deck

FALL 2009

HABITS OF BEING: FLANNERY O'CONNOR AND SALLY FITZGERALD

Thursday, November 5, 2009

In celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor, Emory University will honor the literary contributions of its editor, the late Sally Fitzgerald.

"The Legacy of Sally Fitzgerald"
Panel Discussion: Rosemary M. Magee, Williams Sessions, Bruce Gentry, Elizabeth Chase, Lorraine Murray
4-5 p.m. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Jonathan Yardley: "Flannery O'Connor's Last Masterpiece"
Recipient of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Criticism, critic and author Jonathan Yardley will discuss the significance of The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor and the contributions of editor Sally Fitzgerald to literary studies.
Introduction by Rosemary M. Magee
5– 6 p.m., Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library
Light refreshments

Brenda Bynum: “ 'Cheers and regards to children....': The Letters of Flannery O'Connor to Robert and Sally Fitzgerald”
Faculty Emerita, Emory University, and Distinguished artist Brenda Bynum presents a reading of the letters of Flannery O’Connor to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald.
7:30 p.m., Cannon Chapel

These events are co-sponsored by Creativity: Arts and Innovation, Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Office of the Provost Luminaries Series, Hightower Funds, Emory College and the English Department.

THE RAYMOND DANOWSKI POETRY LIBRARY READING SERIES

C.K.WILLIAMS, poet

Tuesday, November 10, 2009
READING: 6 p.m.
Jones Room, 300 Woodruff Library

Books and a limited number of broadsides will be available for purchase and signing

The Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Reading Series is sponsored by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, the Creative Writing Program and Emory College

For more information, please call 404-727-7620

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

QUIARA HUDES, playwright

Monday, November 16, 2009
READING: 6:30 p.m.
Booksigning to follow reading
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
COLLOQUIUM: 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Kemp-Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Theater Studies Department and the Playwriting Center at Theater Emory

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

MICHAEL RERICK, GINA MYERS, KRISTI MAXWELL

Thursday, December 3, 2009
READING: 8 p.m.
Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Theater Lab

Free and open to the public. For more information, or to sign up for the Poetry Council mailing list, visit: www.college.emory.edu/poetrycouncil or contact Abby Horowitz (404-727-6223, aqhorow@emory.edu)

SPRING 2010

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

BILL BERKSON

Friday, January 22, 2010
READING: 8 p.m.
Location to be announced

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

JOANNA FUHRMAN, STACEY LYNN BROWN, JENNY SADRE-ORAFAI

Thursday, January 28, 2010
READING: 8 p.m.
Location to be announced

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

OINDRILA MUKHERJEE, Emory Creative Writing Fellow in Fiction

and

HEATHER CHRISTLE, Emory Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry

Monday, February 15, 2010
READING: 6:30 p.m.
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

DENISE DUHAMEL

Thursday, February 25, 2010
READING: 8 p.m.
Location to be announced

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

SUSAN CHOI, novelist

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
THE FEMINIST FOUNDERS' READING: 6:30 p.m.
Booksigning to follow reading
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Thursday, March 18, 2010
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Kemp-Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies and the Center for Women

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

MATT HART, CINDY ARRIEU-KING, ABRAHAM SMITH

Thursday, April 1, 2010
READING: 8 p.m.
Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Theater Lab

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

ANTONYA NELSON, fiction writer

Wednesday, April 14, 2010
READING AT AWARDS NIGHT, 8 p.m.
Cannon Chapel sanctuary (second floor)
Booksigning and reception to follow in Brooks Commons (first floor)

Thursday, April 15, 2010
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.,
Kemp Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

CRISTIANA BAIK, JOSEPH WOOD, DANIELA OLSZEWSKA

Thursday, April 22, 2010
READING: 8 p.m.
Schwartz Performing Arts Center, Theater Lab

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