Readings
Baker Theater
11am Lecture by Lee K. Abbott
12pm Lecture by Kathryn Harrison
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Reading by Tony Hoagland
8:30pm Reading by Edwidge Danticat
Readings
Baker Theater
11am Lecture by Tony Hoagland
12pm Lecture by Thomas Glave
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Reading by Kathryn Harrison
8:30pm Reading by Lee K. Abbott
Readings
Baker Ballroom
7:30pm Lecture by Edwidge Danticat
8:30pm Lecture by Thomas Glave
Lydia Davis
Lydia Davis is the author of five collections of short fiction, including Varieties of Disturbance, a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award; Break It Down; Samuel Johnson Is Indignant; and a novel, The End of the Story. Davis is also the translator of numerous avant-garde French novels; memoirs, and, most recently, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, which received the French-American Foundation Annual Translation Prize. Davis was named a Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government for her fiction and translation, and in 2003 received a MacArthur Fellowship. Her most recent book is The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis.
Robin Hemley
Robin Hemley is the winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship for his work on DO-OVER!. He has published seven books, and his stories and essays have appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and many literary magazines and anthologies. Robin received his MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop; he currently directs the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa and lives in Iowa City, IA.
Mary Ruefle
Mary Ruefle is the author of, most recently, The Most of It and A Little White Shadow, as well as numerous collections of poetry. Her poems and prose appear in many anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems, and The Next American Essay. She has received both the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships. Ruefle is a professor in the Vermont College MFA program and lives in Southern Vermont.
George Saunders
George Saunders is the author of three collections of short stories: the bestselling Pastoralia; CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, a Finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, and In Persuasion Nation. Saunders is also the author of the novella-length illustrated fable, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, and the New York Times bestselling children's book, The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, illustrated by Lane Smith, which has also won major children’s literature prizes in Italy and the Netherlands. In 2006, he was awarded both a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He teaches in the Creative Writing Program at Syracuse University.
Tim Seibles
Tim Seibles is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently Buffalo Head Solos (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2004). He received his MFA in poetry from Vermont College. Seibles has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, He is currently an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Old Dominion University.
2010 Spring Literary Festival
May 5-7, 2010
The 2010 Spring Literary Festival features Lydia Davis, Robin Hemley, Mary Ruefle, George Saunders, and Tim Seibles.
Together, they are a stunning collection of best-selling authors whose work spans fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation. Their awards include two MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowships, several National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a Guggenheim fellowship and numerous other honors.
The Spring Literary Festival is always free and open to the public. We invite you to join us.
For more information, contact Kevin Haworth, Spring Literary Festival Coordinator, at haworth@ohio.edu.
Writers In Residence Schedule
Writers in Residence 2009-2010 Schedule
Resident fiction writer, Josip Novakovich, will be on campus January 27-29. He will give a free public reading in Galbreath Chapel on Thursday, January 29th at 7:30pm.
Resident poet, David Wojahn, will be on campus February 24-26. He will give a free public reading in Galbreath Chapel on Thursday, February 25th at 7:30pm.
Writers in Residence
Josip Novakovich
Josip Novakovich (Croatian: Novaković) is a Croatian-American writer who grew up in the Central Croatian town of Daruvar and studied medicine in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad. At the age of 20 he left Yugoslavia, continuing his education at Vassar College (B.A.), Yale University (M.Div.), and the University of Texas, Austin (M.A.). He has published a novel, April Fool's Day, three short story collections Yolk, Salvation and Other Disasters, Infidelities: Stories of War and Lust, two collections of narrative essays Apricots from Chernobyl, Plum Brandy: Croatian Journey and a textbook Fiction Writer's Workshop.
Novakovich has taught at Nebraska Indian Community College, Bard College, Moorhead State University, Antioch University in Los Angeles, the University of Cincinnati, and is currently a professor at Pennsylvania State University. Mr. Novakovich is the recipient of the Whiting Writer's Award, a Guggenheim fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment of the Arts, an award from the Ingram Merrill Foundation, and an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. He was anthologized in Best American Poetry, Pushcart Prize, and O.Henry Prize Stories.
David Wojahn
David Wojahn was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1953, and attended the University of Minnesota and the University of Arizona. His first collection, Icehouse Lights, was chosen by Richard Hugo as a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize and published in 1982. The collection was also the winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Book Award. His second collection, Glassworks, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1987 and won the Society of Midland Authors’ Award for the best volume of poetry to be published during that year. Pittsburgh is also the publisher of four of his subsequent books, Mystery Train (1990), Late Empire (1994), The Falling Hour (1997) and Spirit Cabinet (2002). His most recent collection, Interrogation Palace: New and Selected Poems 1982-2004, published by Pittsburgh in 2006, was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize and was the winner of the O. B. Hardison Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library.
Wojahn is also the author of a collection of essays on contemporary poetry, Strange Good Fortune (University of Arkansas Press, 2001), editor (with Jack Myers) of A Profile of 20th Century American Poetry (Southern Illinois University Press, 1991), and two posthumous collections of Lynda Hull’s poetry, The Only World (HarperCollins, 1995) and Collected Poems (Graywolf, 2006). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Illinois and Indiana Councils for the Arts, and in 1987-88 was the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholar. He has taught at a number of institutions, among them Indiana University, the University of Chicago, the University of Houston, the University of Alabama, and the University of New Orleans. He is presently Professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and is also a member of the program faculty of the MFA in Writing Program of Vermont College of the Fine Arts.
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Special Programs 2008-2009 Schedule
Resident poet, Olena Kalytiak Davis, will be on campus February 16-18. She will give a free public reading at Galbreath Chapel, Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30pm.
Resident fiction writer, Margot Singer, will be on campus March 4-6. She will give a free public reading at Galbreath Chapel, Thursday, March 5th at 7:30pm.
The Spring Literary Festival will be held May 6-8.
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Special Programs For the Ohio University Department of English
The Special Programs office of the English Department coordinates events sponsored by the Creative Writing Department throughout the year including the Spring Literary Festival, the Writer's Harvest reading series, and writers in residence in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
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Writers' Harvest Schedule
The Writers' Harvest will take place at 7:30 pm, Oct. 14th in the Baker Center Theater. All proceeds from the $5 admission donation go to the Southeastern Ohio Food Bank's Second Harvest.
2010 Writers’ Harvest
Three renowned local writers will read from their work at a benefit reading hosted by Ohio University’s Program in Creative Writing, at 7:30pm, Oct. 14th in the Baker Center Theater, with a reception following in the alcove outside the theater. The benefit is part of Writers Harvest, the nation’s largest reading series working to help fight hunger.
Joan Connor is a recipient of the AWP award for her short story collection, History Lessons and the RiverTeeth award for her collection of essays, The World Before Mirrors. Her two earlier collections of stories are: We Who Live Apart and Here On Old Route 7. She is a professor of creative writing at Ohio University.
Erik Ramsey is head of the BFA Playwriting Program at Ohio University. His plays have been workshopped and produced around the country, and several of his short works have been published by Samuel French and Dramatic Publishing. His latest play, Lions Lost in Translation, has been developed, read and workshopped at numerous regional theaters.
John Thorndike is the author of the memoir The Last of His Mind, published in 2009 by Ohio University/Swallow Press. He is also the author of two novels, Anna Delaney's Child and The Potato Baron, and a previous memoir, Another Way Home. He lives in Athens, Ohio.
All proceeds from the $5 admission donation will go to the Southeastern Ohio Food Bank’s Second Harvest, a food distribution program serving Athens, Hocking, Perry, Vinton, Jackson, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan and Washington counties. Donations will be accepted in various locations throughout the week.
Please direct questions about the event to the Special Programs Office, Lindley 242, 593-4181.
Questions concerning larger donations to the Second Harvest Foodbank should be directed to Marilyn Sloan at 800-385-6813 or 740-385-6813.
2010 Spring Literary Festival
May 5-7, 2010
Since 1986, The Spring Literary Festival has featured some of the world's finest, most distinguished writers of poetry, fiction and non-fiction. The three-day festival is held in May on the Ohio University campus in Athens, Ohio. It is sponsored by the Program in Creative Writing of the Department of English and is generously funded by the College of Arts and Sciences. All readings and lectures are free and open to the public.
The five visiting writers will be present throughout the festival, lecturing and reading from their work. Books by the authors will be available for purchase after each program.
11:00 am, Baker Center Theater
Lecture by Trinh T. Minh-ha
8:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Trinh T. Minh-ha
7:30 pm, Baker Center Ballroom
Reading by Chenjerai Hove
