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Creative Writing Program
Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2011-2012
Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the English Department, the Thomas H. Scholl Fund and the College of Liberal Arts.
Spring 2012
Julie Otsuka
Q&A: Thursday, January 19, 4:30 pm, Stewart Center, Room 318
Reading: Thursday, January 19, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Co-sponsored by Purdue Asian American Studies
Dan Chaon
Fiction Writer, National Book Award Finalist
Q&A: Tuesday, January 31, 4:30 pm, Stewart Center, Room 318
Reading: Tuesday, January 31, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Maurice Manning
Poet, PulitzerPrize Finalist
Q&A: Tuesday, February 7, 4:30 pm, West Lafayette Public Library, Elm Room
Reading: Tuesday, February 7, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
GB Tran
Graphic memoirist, author of VIETNAMERICA
Reading: Wednesday, February 15, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Carrie Etter
Poet
Reading: Tuesday, March 6, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Edith Pearlman
Fiction Writer, National Book Award Finalist, PEN/Malamud Award Recipient
Q&A: Tuesday, March 27, 4:30 pm, Stewart Center, Room 318
Reading: Tuesday, March 27, 7:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Co-sponsored by Purdue Jewish Studies
Michael Cunningham
Fiction Writer, Pulitzer Prize Winner, PEN Faulkner Award Winner
Q&A: Monday, April 9, 3 pm, Stewart Center, Room 318
Literary Awards Banquet: Monday, April 9, 5:30 pm, PMU North Ballroom
Reading: Monday, April 9, 8 pm, Fowler Hall
Purdue Literary Awards: Sponsored by Purdue Libraries
MFA Thesis Readings
Friday, April 20, 7:30 pm
Wells Community Cultural Center, 638 North Street, Lafayette
MFA Thesis Readings
Friday, April 27, 7:30 pm
Wells Community Cultural Center, 638 North Street, Lafayette
Fall 2011 Events
Nonfiction Writer Rebecca Skloot, Faculty Poet/Memoirist Marianne Boruch, Faculty Poet Mary Leader, Purdue Alumni Fiction Writer Aaron Michael Morales, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey, National Book Award Finalist Dorothy Allison, Annual Writers Community Harvest, Fiction Writer Shannon Cain.
History of Purdue Literary Awards and Visiting Writers
Literary Awards has been an institution at Purdue since 1928. Speakers have included: Sherwood Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Thornton Wilder, Eudora Welty, Robert Frost, Katharine Ann Porter, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, John Ashbery, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Edward Albee, Derek Walcott, Louise Erdrich, Denise Levertov, Russell Banks, Seamus Heaney, Tony Kushner, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon, Rita Dove, Annie Proulx and Charles Simic. For more information about Literary Awards, please visit: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/literary-awards/
Recent Visiting Writers to the MFA program have included: Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Li-Young Lee, Edward P. Jones, Russell Edson, Andre Dubus III, Alicia Ostriker, Quan Barry, Michael Martone, Heather McHugh, Steve Yarbrough, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Denise Duhamel, Charles Baxter, Joyce Carol Oates, Adam Zagajewski, Peter Ho Davies, Jane Hamilton, Lan Samantha Chang, A. Van Jordan, Carl Phillips and Helena María Viramontes, Samrat Upadhyay, Jean Valentine, T.C. Boyle and Bob Hicok.
MFA Student Reading Series
These informal readings by current MFA students are held on the occasional Tuesday in the Spring in Downtown Lafayette. For scheduling information, please contact coordinator Lindsey Alexander.
MFA Thesis Readings
These celebratory readings, by fiction writers Conor Broughan, Chidelia Edochie, Geordie Flantz and Adam Lefton and poets Joshua Diamond, Jessica Farquhar, Jacob Sunderlin and Corey Van Landingham will be held on April 20 and April 27 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.
Questions?
For questions regarding the Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2011-2012, please contact Reading Series Coordinator Lindsey Alexander.
