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Creative Writing Program

Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2012-2013

Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the English Department, the Thomas H. Scholl Fund and the College of Liberal Arts.

Spring 2013

Carol Anshaw, Fiction Discussion
Tuesday, February 5, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 320

Carol Anshaw, Fiction Reading
Tuesday, February 5, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Ely Shipley, Poetry Discussion
A Purdue Alumni Event
Monday, February 11, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 214D

Ely Shipley, Poetry Reading
A Purdue Alumni Event
Monday, February 11, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Mary Szybist, Sycamore Review Visiting Editor / Writer-in-Residence
Poetry Discussion
Tuesday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 320

Mary Szybist, Sycamore Review Visiting Editor / Writer-in-Residence
Poetry Reading
Tuesday, February 26, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Davy Rothbart, Nonfiction Reading & Spoken Word event
Featuring singer-songwriter Peter Rothbart and FOUND Magazine
Tuesday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210

Karen Russell, Fiction Discussion
Tuesday, April 2, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 313

Karen Russell, Fiction Reading
Tuesday, April 2, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140

Purdue Literary Awards
Featuring Poet and Memoirist Mark Doty
Monday, April 8
3 pm: Q&A in Hicks Library Basement
4:30 pm: Reception, Purdue Memorial Union Anniversary Drawing Room
5:30 pm: Banquet, Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom
8 pm: Poetry Reading, Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
*Note: the Q&A and Reading are free and open to the public

Fall 2012

Visitors to the Purdue MFA Program this past fall included fiction writers Antonya Nelson, Jess Walter and Guillermo Martinez, poets Dana Roeser, Mark Neely and Terrance Hayes and Visiting Editor / Writer-in-Residence Bill Roorbach

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, Russell Banks, Seamus Heaney, Tony Kushner, Charles Wright, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Michael Chabon, Rita Dove, Annie Proulx, Charles Simic and Michael Cunningham. 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, Helena María Viramontes, Natasha Trethewey, Dorothy Allison, Dan Chaon, Julie Otsuka, Maurice Manning and Edith Pearlman.

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 Shavonne Clarke, Natalie van Hoose and Dallas Woodburn and poets Lindsey Alexander, Greg Allendorf, Jessica Jacobs and Rosalie Moffett will be held at 7:30 pm on April 19 and April 26 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.

Questions?

For questions regarding the Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2012-2013, please contact Reading Series Coordinator Lindsey Alexander.