Purdue University College of Liberal Arts
Information for
Creative Writing Program
Purdue University Visting Writers Series, 2008-2009
Sponsored by the MFA Program in Creative Writing, the English Department and the College of Liberal Arts
Fall 2008
Nicholas Delbanco, Craft Discussion
Friday, September 5, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Nicholas Delbanco, Fiction Reading
Thursday, September 4, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Porter Shreve, Fiction Reading
Monday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Dana Roeser, Poetry Reading
Thursday, October 16, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Lan Samantha Chang, Craft Discussion
Sponsored by the Council on Asian American Studies
Wednesday, October 29, 4:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Lan Samantha Chang, Fiction Reading
Sponsored by the Council on Asian American Studies
Wednesday, October 29, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Margaret Edson, Lecture and Scenes from “Wit”
Cancer, Culture and Community
Sponsored by the Oncological Sciences Center at Discover Park
Thursday, November 6, 7:30 p.m.
Fowler Hall
A. Van Jordan, Poetry Reading
Thursday, November 13, 7:30 p.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
A. Van Jordan, Craft Discussion
Friday, November 14, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Writers Community Harvest
Thursday, November 20, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210
Spring 2009
Susan Stewart, Poetry Reading
January: TBA
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
AWP Conference in Chicago
*Note: The Purdue MFA Program will be a sponsor at the AWP Conference in Chicago and many current students, faculty and alumni will be participating in panels, giving readings and signings and attending the Sycamore Review 20th Anniversary reunion party.
February 11-14, 2009
Hilton Chicago
Craig Arnold, Poetry Reading
February: TBA
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Fred Arroyo (MFA ’97), Alumni Fiction Reading
Co-Sponsored by Latino Cultural Center
Thursday, March 5, 7:30 p.m.
Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
Jane Hamilton, Fiction Reading
Thursday, March 26, 7:30 p.m.
Matthews Hall, Room 210
Jane Hamilton, Craft Discussion
Friday, March 27, 10:30 a.m.
Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Rita Dove, Lecture and Poetry Reading
Purdue Literary Awards
Sponsored by Purdue Libraries
Tuesday, April 15
Awards Banquet, PMU North Ballroom, 5:30 p.m.
Reading, Fowler Hall, 8:00 p.m.
History of Purdue Literary Awards and Visiting Writers
Literary Awards has been an institution at Purdue since 1928. Speakers have included: Carl Sandburg, Sherwood Anderson, Tennessee Williams, Thorton 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 and Michael Chabon. For more information, please visit the Literary Awards website.
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, and Peter Ho Davies.
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 Dan Tyx.
MFA Thesis Readings
These celebratory readings, by fiction writers Brian Beglin, Erin Blakeslee, Mehdi Okasi and Dan Tyx and poets David Blomenberg, Eric Scovel, Theresa Smith and R.J. Talyor will be held on April 3 and April 10 at Wells Center, 638 North Street, Downtown Lafayette.
Questions?
For questions regarding the Purdue University Visiting Writers Series, 2008-2009, please contact Reading Series Coordinator Dan Tyx.