2007 Writer’s Harvest
Four 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. 11th in the Walter Hall Rotunda. The benefit is part of Writers Harvest, the nation’s largest reading series working to help fight hunger.
All proceeds from the $3 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.
This year’s featured writers are essayist Dinty Moore, poet/writer Carrie Oeding, fiction writer Penny Lauer and poet Wendy McVicker.
Dinty W. Moore is the author of the forthcoming memoir Between Panic & Desire (University of Nebraska Press/American Lives). His other books include The Accidental Buddhist, Toothpick Men, The Emperor’s Virtual Clothes, and the writing guide, The Truth of the Matter: Art and Craft in Creative Nonfiction. He has published essays and stories in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader and Crazyhorse, and edits the journal BREVITY. He teaches at Ohio University.
Penny Lauer grew up in Newark, Ohio, the setting for her novel, Bottled Butterfly. Lauer graduated from Ohio University in 1965 with a degree in English and taught high school honors English for several years.
Carrie Oeding is a post-doctoral fellow in the English Department at Ohio University. She holds an MFA from Eastern Washington and a PhD in creative writing from Ohio University. Her poetry has been published in Colorado Review, Greensboro Review, Third Coast and South Dakota Review. Her nonfiction has appeared in BREVITY: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction. Her work has also been published in the anthology Best New Poets, 2005 (University of Virginia). Among her awards are an Honorable Mention: AWP Intro to Journals, Judge: G.C. Waldrep (2007) and the Emerson Poetry Prize (2002).
Wendy McVicker lives and writes in Athens, Ohio. In her poetry, she seeks "to honor memory and the slow, deep process of knowing." Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Women's Journal, Confluence, Riverwind and Whiskey Island, among others. She is a teaching poet with the Ohio Arts Council's Arts in Education program, and has been inciting poetry in schools, libraries, galleries, and community centers since 1987.
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.