​Join us for a fiction reading by

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho

7 pm Thursday, March 8

in the Joynes Reading Room.

Find the Facebook event here.​

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho was born and raised in Toluca, Mexico. A former Knight Journalism fellow at Stanford University, a Dobie Paisano fellow in fiction by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas Institute of Letters, a John Garder Fellow at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, a Yaddo Fellow, and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at Sewanee Writers’ Conference, he earned his MFA from The New Writers Project at UT Austin. His work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, Texas Monthly, The Millions, and elsewhere. His debut story collection BAREFOOT DOGS won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Book of Fiction, and was named a Best Book of 2015 by Kirkus Reviews, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas Observer and PRI’s The World. He’s currently at work on his second book.

Join us for a poetry reading by National Book Award winner

 Nikky Finney

to kick off the Society for the Study of Southern Literature conference at the University of Texas at Austin

6 pm Thursday, February 15

in the Harry Ransom Center.

Reception to follow. Find the Facebook event here.

Event sponsors include the Society for the Study of Southern Literature, the University of Texas at Austin Department of English, the Harry Ransom Center, the New Writers Project, and the Michener Center for Writers.

Nikky Finney was born in South Carolina, within listening distance of the sea. A child of activists, she came of age during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements. At Talladega College, nurtured by Hale Woodruff’s Amistad murals, Finney began to understand the powerful synergy between art and history. Finney has authored four books of poetry: Head Off & Split (2011); The World Is Round (2003);Rice (1995); and On Wings Made of Gauze (1985). The John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Creative Writing and Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina, Finney also authored Heartwood (1997), edited The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South (2007), and co- founded the Affrilachian Poets. Finney’s fourth book of poetry, Head Off & Split, was awarded the 2011 National Book Award for poetry.

Join us for a poetry reading by New Writers Project Visiting Poet

Natalie Diaz

7 pm Thursday, November 16

in the Joynes Reading Room.

Find the Facebook event here.

Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.

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!