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February 8th: Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, Dweck Center, 1:30 P.M.
February 11th: Associated Writing Program (AWP) Conference in Chicago
February 17
6:30 p.m., Wollman Hall, $5.
2nd Annual Pan African Literary Forum Writers' Conference Reading: Timbuktu, Mali, August 2010
Colin Channer, Thomas Sayers Ellis, and Binyavanga Wainaina will read in honor of the second annual Pan African Literary Forum Writers' Conference that will take place in Timbuktu, Mali in August 2010. As well, the reading helps launch two additional PALF activities, an annual International Book Prize, and an online curriculum PALF has developed for writers in sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. Jeffery Renard Allen is the founder and executive director of the Pan African Literary Forum, a non-profit organization. Suggested donation $5. Sponsored by the Writing Program.
Jeffery Renard Allen, moderator
February 24th: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
March 6th and 7th: Gemini Ink, San Antonio, Texas
March 18th: Virginia Festival of the Book
March 19th: University of Georgia at Athens
March 25
6:30 p.m., room 510 $5.
Fiction Forum: Mary Gaitskill
Gaitskill is the author of The Man Back There: Stories, Bad Behavior, and Two Girls, Fat and Thin. Her previous book Because They Wanted To was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1998. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Esquire, The Best American Short Stories (1993) and The O.Henry Prize Stories (1998). The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she teaches creative writing at Syracuse University.
Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, Faculty, The New School Writing Program.
April 2nd-5th: Richard Wright Symposium, University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Wednesday, April 15
6:30 p.m., Room 510. $5.
Fiction Forum: Matthew Sharpe and Scott Heim.
Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels The Sleeping Father (Soft Skull, 2003, translated into nine languages) and Nothing Is Terrible (Villard, 2000) as well as the short-story collection Stories from the Tube (Villard, 1998). He teaches creative writing at Wesleyean University. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper's, Zoetrope, BOMB, McSweeney's, American Letters & Commentary, Southwest Review, and Teachers & Writers magazine. Scott Heim is the author of We Disappear. He grew up in a small farming community there, and later attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence, earning a B.A. in English and Art History in 1989 and an M.A. in English Literature in 1991. He attended the M.F.A. program in Writing at Columbia University, where he wrote his first novel, Mysterious Skin. HarperCollins published that book in 1995, and Scott followed it with another novel, In Awe, in 1997. Scott has won fellowships to the London Arts Board as their International Writer-in-Residence and to the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his adaptation of Mysterious Skin. Mysterious Skin was adapted for the stage, premiering in San Francisco; it was subsequently adapted to film by director Gregg Araki and Antidote Films. He is also the author of a book of poems, Saved From Drowning (1993). Moderated by Jeffery Renard Allen, Faculty, and Helen Schulman, Fiction Coordinator, The New School Writing Program.
April 27th: Cave Canem Reading, New School, Room 510, 6:30 P.M.
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