New Writers Project

New Writers Project Graduation Reading: May 4, 2017

Please join us on Thursday, May 4, 2017 at the Scottish Rite Theater (207 W. 18th St. Austin, TX 78701) as we celebrate the 2017 New Writers Project MFA graduates!

We will have readings by:

Dalton Day (poetry)
Gillian Barlow Graham (fiction)
Julie Poole (poetry)
Sagnik Datta (fiction)
David Schaefer (poetry)
Marco Verdoni (fiction)

The reading will begin at 7:00 PM, and doors will open at 6:45 PM. A small reception will follow the reading.

Friends and family are welcome to attend!

Matthew Zapruder Reading: April 4, 2017

Please join us for a reading by poet Matthew Zapruder on April 4, 2017 at 7 PM in the Harry Ransom Center.

Award-winning poet, editor, and translator Matthew Zapruder reads selections of his poetry and from his forthcoming book Why Poetry?, “an incisive for poetry’s accessibility to all readers.”

Author of four poetry collections, including Sun Bear (2014) and Come On All You Ghosts (2010), Zapruder is also the poetry editor for New York Times Magazine and editor-at-large for Wave Books. A reception and book signing will follow.

This event is free and open to the public, but donations are welcome. Seating is first-come, first-serve, and doors open at 6:30 P.M.

This event is co-sponsored by the New Writers Project and the Harry Ransom Center.

Deb Olin Unferth Reading: March 29, 2017

Please join us on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 7 PM at BookPeople (603 N. Lamar Blvd.) for our very own Deb Olin Unferth in conversation with Elizabeth McCracken.

Deb Olin Unferth will read from her new story collection, WAIT TILL YOU SEE ME DANCE. She is the author of Minor Robberies, Vacation, and Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War, which was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in autobiography.


Praise for WAIT TILL YOU SEE ME DANCE:

“Deb Olin Unferth’s stories are so smart, fast, full of heart, and distinctive in voice–each an intense little thought-system going out earnestly in search of strange new truths. What an important and exciting talent.”–George Saunders

“This book is an astonishment–strange, brainy, and loaded with feeling. Deb Olin Unferth shows, with brilliant force, the startling vitality of the short story. She is a master.”–Ben Marcus

“[Unferth] is incisive, bitingly funny, and–here it comes–whipsmart.”–THE MILLIONS

“[WAIT TILL YOU SEE ME DANCE is] written with precision, deadpan humor, and a sharp but generous observation of human foibles.”–POETS & WRITERS

 
More information is available on the BookPeople website.

Kazim Ali Reading: March 7, 2017

Please join us on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at 7 PM in the Joynes Reading Room for a reading by poet, essayist, fiction writer, and translator Kazim Ali.
Kazim Ali’s books include several volumes of poetry, including Sky Ward, winner of the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry; The Far Mosque, winner of Alice James Books’ New England/New York Award; The Fortieth Day; All One’s Blue; and the cross-genre text Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities. He has also published a translation of Abahn Sabana David by Marguerite Duras, Water’s Footfall by Sohrab Sepehri, Oasis of Now: Selected Poems by Sohrab Sepehri, and (with Libby Murphy) L’amour by Marguerite Duras. His novels include Quinn’s Passage, named one of “The Best Books of 2005” by Chronogram magazine,and The Disappearance of Seth. His books of essays include Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence and Fasting for Ramadan. In addition to co-editing Jean Valentine: This-World Company, he is a contributing editor for AWP Writers Chronicle and associate editor of the literary magazine FIELD and founding editor of the small press Nightboat Books. He is the series co-editor for both Poets on Poetry and Under Discussion, from the University of Michigan Press.
Ali’s forthcoming titles include: Uncle Sharif’s Life in Music, a collection of short stories; The Secret Room: A String Quartet, a novel; and Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study, a new book of essays.  Ali is an associate professor of Creative Writing and Comparative Literature at Oberlin College.
This event is sponsored by the L.L. and Ethel E. Dean Endowment in the School of Undergraduate Studies, and the Mary Lu Joynes Endowment in the Plan II Honors Program.
This event is free and open to the public.
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Roger Reeves Reading: January 30, 2017

01-30-17_ReevesPlease join us at 7:00 PM on Monday, January 30, 2017 in Avaya Auditorium for a reading by poet Roger Reeves.

Roger Reeves’ debut book of poems, King Me (Copper Canyon Press, 2013), was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. His second collection, On Paradise, is forthcoming from Norton. Recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from Bread Loaf, Cave Canem, the NEA, and the Poetry Foundation, his poems have appeared in Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. Currently an Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Illinois, Chicago, he earned an MFA from the Michener Center for Writers and a PhD in English at the University of Texas at Austin.

This event is free and open to the public.