NC State Literary Readings 2011-2012
All readings start at 7:30 on a Wednesday with the exception of the October 17th reading by W.S. Merwin.
August 31. Long Story Short authors, faculty and former NC State students: Wilton Barnhardt, Jill McCorkle, Tracie Fellers, and Amy Knox-Brown. Studio Theatre in Thompson.
September 21. Dorianne Laux reading from her new book, along with Elyse Fenton. Craft Center in Thompson Hall.
October 17 (Monday). Poet Laureate of the United States W.S. Merwin. Stewart Theatre, Talley Student Center. 7:30 PM.
November 16. Ron Rash, fiction contest judge. Studio Theatre, Thompson Hall. Novelist and poet, and bestselling author of Serena and other prize-winning novels. Fiction contest judge. Studio Theatre.
February 15. Karen Joy Fowler. Craft Center in Thompson Hall.
Fowler is the author of five novels and three short story collections. Her first novel, Sarah Canary, won the Commonwealth medal for best first novel by a Californian; her third, Sister Noon, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner; and The Jane Austen Book Club was a New York Times bestseller.
April 11.Barbara Ras, poetry judge. Caldwell Lounge, Caldwell.
Her first collection of poems, Bite Every Sorrow (LSU Press, 1998), won the 1997 Walt Whitman Award and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 1999, Her other books of poetry include One Hidden Stuff (2006) and The Last Skin (2010). Ras has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. Ras currently lives in San Antonio, where she directs Trinity University Press.
April 27, Last Day of Classes, a Friday. Graduate Student Reading and Party. Details to be announced.
Fall 2010 Reading Series
Admission to all events is free and open to the public.
John Kessel reading & celebration, Wed. September 22. John Kessel, Professor of English, has taught at NC State since 1982. He is the author of short stories and novels which have won many prizes including the coveted Nebula Award. In In 2007, his play, "A Clean Escape" was adapted for ABC's science fiction anthology series Masters of Science Fiction. He will read from his recently published The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories.
Poets John Balaban, Dorianne Laux, Joe Millar, & Noel Moore, Wed. Oct 13, will each read from their new chapbook from Red Dragonfly Press. Come hear these four members of NC State's new Literary Circle.
Madison Smartt Bell, reading and fiction contest judge, Wed, Nov. 17. Bell is the author of twelve novels and two collections of short stories, which have won numerous awards. His novel Dr. Sleep was made into a feature film. Born and raised in Tennessee, he is a graduate of Princeton University and Hollins College. He will give a reading from his fiction and also serve as the judge for the annual Brenda Smart fiction contest.
All fall readings will take place in the Titmus Theatre of Thompson Hall, starting at 7:00 PM
Free parking will be available next to the Theatre at the Coliseum Deck, convenient from Cates or Dunn Avenues on the NC State Campus (see http://www.ncsu.edu/arts/mapsanddirections.html).
For more information, please call NC State’s MFA at 919-515-4147
