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. Please Note --> This is a Past Event!! .
Date
11/5/2009
Time
7:00 PM
Event Description:
The Department of English and Foreign Languages will kick off the 2009-2010 Writers in the Gallery series with fiction writer Joseph Skibell Nov. 5, followed by fiction writer Jason Ockert on Jan. 28, 2010, and readings by Laurie O’Brien Creative Writing Award winners Feb. 25, 2010. All events begin with a reception at 7 p.m. followed by the reading at 7:30 p.m. in Building 82.
Joseph Skibell’s debut novel, “A Blessing on the Moon,” received the prestigious Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Turner Prize for First Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His second novel, “The English Disease,” received the Jesse H. Jones Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. Skibell’s third novel, “A Curable Romantic,” is forthcoming from Algonquin in 2010. In addition, his work has been widely anthologized and his short stories and essays have appeared in “Story, Tikkun,” “The New York Times,” “Poets & Writers,” and other periodicals. A recipient of a Halls Fellowship, a Michener Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, Skibell has taught at the University of Wisconsin, the Humber School for Writers, the Taos Summer Writers Conference, and Bar-Ilan University. He joined the English Department/Creative Writing Program at Emory University in 1999 and is currently working on a book of essays about the tales in the Talmud.
For more information, contact Jonathan Fink, assistant professor and coordinator of creative writing publications and events, at jfink@uwf.eduxcbvdb.
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