New Writers Project

Bat City Review Reading at the Texas Book Festival Lit Crawl: November 5, 2016

Bat City Review will host a storytelling session during Austin’s 6th annual Lit Crawl, at the beautiful GrayDUCK Gallery (2213 E Cesar Chavez St.). The reading will commence at 8:30 PM on Saturday, November 5, 2016

Featuring Gayle Forman, Paige Schilt, and Chen Chen. Authors will tell stories and read material on the theme of deal breakers (that moment you had to walk away). Hosted by Bat City Review.

You can find Saturday’s amazing schedule of performances, games, trivia matches, music, and all-ages storytelling sessions here: http://www.texasbookfestival.org/lit-crawl/

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GAYLE FORMAN is a journalist and award-winning author whose many young adult novels include I Was Here, Just One Day, and If I Stay, which was also a major motion picture. She lives in Brooklyn with her family. Leave Me is her first novel for adults.

PAIGE SCHILT moved to Texas with a dream of learning to sip whiskey and write serious literary essays in the shade of a wide front porch. Somewhere along the way, she came out as queer, became an activist, and fell in love with a gender-bending musician. Now she writes hilarious and heart-breaking stories about a gay, transgender, rock-n-roll family raising a son in the lone star state. Her work has appeared in The Bilerico Project, Offbeat Families, Mutha Magazine, and Brain, Child. Her memoir was published in 2015 by Transgress Press.

CHEN CHEN is the author of When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities, winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize and forthcoming spring 2017 from BOA Editions, Ltd. A Kundiman and Lambda Literary Fellow, Chen’s work has appeared in two chapbooks as well as in publications such as Poetry, The Massachusetts Review, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day, Best of the Net, and The Best American Poetry. Chen helps edit Iron Horse and Gabby. He also works on a new journal called Underblong, which he co-founded with the poet Sam Herschel Wein. Chen received his MFA from Syracuse University and is currently pursuing a PhD in English and Creative Writing at Texas Tech University.

Noelle Kocot Reading: November 29, 2016

11-29-16_kocotPlease join us on Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 6:30 PM for a reading by poet Noelle Kocot in the Joynes Reading Room (Carothers Residence Hall, 2501 Whitis Ave).

Noelle Kocot is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Phantom Pains of Madness (Wave Books, 2016), Soul in Space (Wave Books, 2013), and a book of translations of Tristan Corbière, Poet by Default (Wave Books, 2011). Recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets, she is currently the Poet Laureate of Pemberton Borough, New Jersey. She is currently a visiting poet for the New Writers Project at UT.

This event is sponsored by the Department of English’s New Writers Project, 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.

For more news and announcements of upcoming readings, follow the New Writers Project on Facebook and visit our website at http://newwritersproject.org.

Max Porter Reading: November 3, 2016

porter-maxPlease join us on Thursday, November 3, 2016 at 7 PM for a reading by Max Porter in the Joynes Reading Room (Carothers Residence Hall, 2501 Whitis Ave).

Max Porter is an editorial director at Granta Books and Portobello Books. He lives in South London with his wife and children. Grief is the Thing with Feathers is his first book and the winner of the International Dylan Thomas Prize 2016. Robert McFarlane calls it, “Dazzlingly good…anyone who has ever loved someone, or lost someone, or both will be gripped by it.”

This event is sponsored by the Department of English’s New Writers Project, 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.

For more news and announcements of upcoming readings, follow the New Writers Project on Facebook and visit our website at http://newwritersproject.org.

Brenda Shaughnessy Reading: September 6, 2016

09-06-16_ShaughnessyPlease join us on Tuesday, September 6, 2016 at 8 PM for a reading by poet Brenda Shaughnessy in the Joynes Reading Room (Carothers Residence Hall, 2501 Whitis Ave).

Brenda Shaughnessy is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently So Much Synth (Copper Canyon, 2016). Her book Our Andromeda was a New York Times Notable Book of 2013, as well as a finalist for the Griffin International Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Award. Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, Harpers, McSweeney’s, The New York Times, The New Yorker, O Magazine, Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. She is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Rutgers University-Newark.

This event is sponsored by the Department of English’s New Writers Project, 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.

For more news and announcements of upcoming readings, follow the New Writers Project on Facebook and visit our website at http://newwritersproject.org.

UT-Austin Writing Faculty Reading: September 1, 2016

Please join us for a reading with UT Austin faculty members Edward Carey, Lisa Olstein  Laurie Saurborn, and Deb Olin Unferth . Thursday, September 1, 7pm at Malvern Books, 613 W. 29th Street. 
 
The reading will be followed by refreshments!
 
Readers include:

Edward Carey is the author of the novels Observatory Mansions and Alva and Irva the Twins who Saved a City, and of the Iremonger Trilogy, all of which he illustrated. His work has been translated into sixteen languages. Born in England he now finds himself in Austin, Texas.

Lisa Olstein is the author of three poetry collections, most recently LITTLE STRANGER. This fall Essay Press will release THE RESEMBLANCE OF THE ENZYMES OF GRASSES TO THOSE OF WHALES IS A FAMILY RESEMBLANCE, a winner of their 2015 chapbook contest. A new full-length collection, LATE EMPIRE, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2017.

Laurie Saurborn is the author of two poetry collections, Industry of Brief Distraction and Carnavoria, and a chapbook, Patriot. An NEA Creative Writing Fellowship recipient, her short stories, poems, reviews and photographs have appeared or are forthcoming in such publications as American Literary Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, The Southern Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. Laurie teaches creative writing at the University of Texas at Austin, where she also directs the undergraduate creative writing program. She is currently at work on a collection of stories.

 
Deb Olin Unferth is the author of three books. Her next book, a collection of stories, is coming out in March of 2017 from Graywolf Press. Her fiction has recently appeared in Harper’s, The Paris Review, Granta, Vice, Tin House, and McSweeney’s. 

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