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May 20, 2006
Can't miss readings this week.
Check out Spalding University's Festival of Contemporary Writing, featuring the fantastic faculty of their MFA program ... it's free and open to the public! Unless noted, the readings take place in the Egan Leadership Center Lectorium at the corner of Breckinridge and Fourth Streets in Louisville.
I can't recommend just one night, but here are my can't miss readings: Greg Pape on Saturday; Crystal Wilkinson, Richard Goodman, Robin Lippincott and Molly Peacock on Monday afternoon; Debra Kang Dean on Monday night; Rane Arroyo, Charlie Schulman and Jeanie Thompson on Tuesday night; Neela Vaswani, Silas House and Kathleen Driskell on Thursday night; and the PGRA readings on Saturday afternoon.
Saturday, May 20, 7 p.m.
- Greg Pape (poetry), author of American Flamingo
- Dianne Aprile (nonfiction), author of Making a Heart for God: A Week Inside a Catholic Monastery
- Doreen Baingana (fiction), author of Tropical Fish: Stories Out of Entebbe
- Candice Ransom (writing for children),author of I Like Shoes and Willie McLean and the Civil War Surrender
- Rebecca Walker, guest, author of Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self
Sunday, May 21, 7:30 p.m. Celebration of Recently Published Books (Gallery, 16th floor, The Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway. Book signing and reception to follow. Books provided by Carmichael's Bookstore.)
- K. L. Cook (fiction), author of The Girl from Charnelle
- Kay Gill, guest, author of Mirel's Daughter (Fleur-de-Lis Press)
- Philip F. Deaver (fiction, poetry), author of Silent Retreats; How Men Pray
Monday, May 22, 4 p.m.
- Crystal Wilkinson (fiction), author of Water Street
- Richard Goodman (nonfiction), author of French Dirt: The Story of a Garden in the South of France
- Louella Bryant (writing for children), author of Two Tracks in the Snow
- Robin Lippincott (fiction), author of Our Arcadia
- Molly Peacock (poetry, nonfiction), author of Cornucopia; Paradise, Piece by Piece
Monday, May 22, 7 p.m.
- Connie May Fowler (fiction), author of The Problem with Murmur Lee: A Novel
- Roy Hoffman (fiction, nonfiction), author of Chicken Dreaming Porn; Back Home: Journeys Through Mobile
- Julie Brickman (fiction), author of What Birds Can Only Whisper
- Debra Kang Dean (poetry), author of Precipitates
- Sena Jeter Naslund (ficton), author of Abundance, A Novel of Marie Antoinette
- Eric Schmeidl (playwriting), author of Denise Druczweski's Inferno
Tuesday, May 23, 7 p.m.
- Cathleen Medwick (nonfiction), author of Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
- Rane Arroyo (poetry), author of How to Name a Hurricane
- Mary Yukari Waters (fiction), author of The Laws of Evening
- Charles Schulman (playwriting, screenwriting), author of Angel of Death
- Jeanie Thompson (poetry), author of White for Harvest: New and Selected Poems
Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m.
- Neela Vaswani (fiction), author of Where the Long Grass Bends
- Silas House (fiction), author of The Coal Tattoo
- Elaine Orr, guest, author of Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
- Kathleen Driskell (poetry), author of Laughing Sickness
- Luke Wallin (writing for children), The Redneck Poacher's Son
- Claudia Johnson (playwriting, screenwriting), author of Propinquity and Paternity
Saturday, May 28, 4:15 p.m. Post-Graduate Reading: Daniel DiStasio, Zola Noble, Maureen Mahoney Gillis, Troy Alvey, Lucrecia Guerrero, Pamela White, Paul Hiers, Myra Bellin, and Michele Ruby
Posted by eek at May 20, 2006 12:05 AM
Comments
Wow, it's that time again, eh? Let me know if you need any help for Homecoming.
Posted by: Terri at May 21, 2006 11:02 AM