Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing, the state’s largest spring-fall reading series, is on the docket for November 14-21, featuring free readings by faculty, guests, and alumni of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. The events will be held at Spalding’s Egan Leadership Center (ELC) lectorium, located at the corner of Fourth and Breckinridge streets, except where noted.
Saturday, November 14, 7:30 p.m. (ELC)
○ Robert Finch (nonfiction), author of The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore
○ Neela Vaswani (fiction), author of Where the Long Grass Bends
○ Kira Obolensky (playwriting), Raskol
○ Luke Wallin (writing for children, fiction, nonfiction), Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture
○ Debra Kang Dean (poetry), author of Precipitates
○ Brad Riddell (screenwriting), The Plebe
Sunday, November 15, 5 p.m. Celebration of Recently Published Books (The Gallery, 16th floor, Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway)
○ Mary Yukari Waters (fiction), The Favorites
○ Jeanie Thompson (poetry), The Seasons Bear Us
○ Silas House (fiction), Eli the Good
Book signing to follow. Books provided by Carmichael’s Bookstore
Monday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. (ELC)
○ Crystal Wilkinson (fiction), Water Street
○ Molly Peacock (poetry), The Second Blush
○ Richard Goodman (nonfiction), The Soul of Creative Writing
○ Louella Bryant (nonfiction, fiction, writing for children), While in Darkness There Is Light
○ Richard Taylor (poetry), Rail Splitter: Sonnets on the Life of Abraham Lincoln
○ Julie Brickman (fiction), What Birds Can Only Whisper
○ Eric Schmiedl (playwriting), Browns Rules
Wednesday, November 18, 4 p.m. (ELC)
○ Special Guest: Patricia MacLachlan, author of Sarah, Plain and Tall
Book signing to follow. Books provided by Spalding Bookstore.
Thursday, November 19, 7:30 p.m. (ELC)
○ Rachel Harper (fiction), Brass Ankle Blues
○ Greg Pape (poetry), American Flamingo
○ Joyce McDonald (writing for children), Devil on My Heels
○ Philip F. Deaver (poetry, fiction), How Men Pray; Silent Retreats
○ Helena Kriel (screenwriting), Skin
○ Roy Hoffman (fiction, nonfiction), Chicken Dreaming Corn; Back Home
Friday, November 20, 5 p.m. (ELC)
○ Maureen Morehead (poetry), A Sense of Time Left
○ Jonathan Penner (fiction), This Is My Voice
○ Dianne Aprile (nonfiction), Making a Heart for God
○ Charlie Schulman (playwriting, screenwriting), Angel of Death
○ Kathleen Driskell (poetry), Seed Across Snow
○ Sena Jeter Naslund (fiction), Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
Saturday, November 21, 1:15 p.m. Reading by MFA Alumni from Works in Progress (ELC)
○ Rae Cobbs, Julie Coyle, Mark Brown, Juyanne James
The reading schedule may change without notice. Check the website for updated information: www.spalding.edu/mfa. For more information, call 502-585-9911, ext. 2423 or 800-896-8941, ext. 2423 or email mfa@spalding.edu.
