Creative Writing Program

Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2009-2010
Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing,
the English Department and the
College of Liberal Arts

Spring 2010
Bich Minh Nguyen, Fiction Reading

Thursday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210

Chris Forhan and Alessandra Lynch, Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 9, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Eleanor Wilner, Poetry Reading


Tuesday, February 23, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Eleanor Wilner, Craft Discussion
Wednesday, February 23, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Benjamin Percy, Craft Discussion
Thursday, March 4, 4:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Benjamin Percy, Fiction Reading
Thursday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Annie Proulx, Lecture and Fiction Reading
Purdue Literary Awards
Sponsored by Purdue Libraries
Thursday, April 22
Awards Banquet, PMU North Ballroom, 5:30 p.m.
Reading, Fowler Hall, 8:00 p.m.

Fall 2009
Donald Ray Pollock, Craft Discussion
Thursday, September 10, 4:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Donald Ray Pollock, Fiction Reading

Thursday, September 10, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Carl Phillips, Poetry Reading

Thursday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Carl Phillips, Craft Discussion


Friday, September 25, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Helena María Viramontes, Fiction Reading


Friday, October 9, 12:00 p.m.
Purdue Memorial Union Anniversary Drawing Room

Nahid Rachlin, Craft Discussion


Thursday, October 22, 4:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

Nahid Rachlin, Fiction Reading

Thursday, October 22, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Donald Hall, Lecture and Poetry Reading
Cancer, Culture and Community
Sponsored by the Oncological Sciences Center at Discover Park
Thursday, November 5, 7:30 p.m.
Fowler Hall

Writers Community Harvest
Thursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210

Donald Platt, Poetry Reading

Thursday, December 3, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall

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, Charles Wright, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon and Rita Dove. For more information about Literary Awards, please visit the website here. 

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, and A. Van Jordan.

MFA Student Reading Series
These informal readings by current MFA students are held on the occasional Tuesday in the Spring at the Knickerbocker in Downtown Lafayette. For scheduling information, please contact coordinator Kristin Griffin.

MFA Thesis Readings
These celebratory readings, by fiction writers Christopher Feliciano Arnold, Katie Connor, Michael Wang and James Xiao  and poets Chad Hardy, Ruth Joynton, Cheryl Quimba and Kenny Tanemura will be held on April 16 and April 23 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.

Questions?
For questions regarding the Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2009-2010, please contact Reading Series Coordinator Kristin Griffin.