News & Events

Creative Writing Program News, FALL 2008

Crazyheart, the first novel by faculty member, Tom Cobb, is going to be made into a major motion picture starring Robert Duvall, Jeff Bridges, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.

Rebecca Maizel, second-year M.A. student, attended the New York State Writers Conference at Skidmore College this summer.

Faculty member, Karen Boren, has a new essay, “Elegy for Happiness,” forthcoming in the fall issue of Fourth Genre.

Lindsay Wells, last year’s Garrigue Award winner, will be working with AmeriCorps this year, building sustainable houses in Oregon.

Upcoming On-Campus Readings:

Edmund White will read on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 in Sapinsley Hall, the Nazarian Center. The reading is free and open to the public. White is the author of the novels Fanny: A Fiction, A Boy's Own Story, The Farewell Symphony, and The Married Man; a biography of Jean Genet; a study of Marcel Proust; and, most recently, a memoir, My Lives. Having lived in Paris for many years, he now lives in New York and teaches at Princeton University.

Upcoming Off-Campus Readings:

Dionne Irving, M.A. alum, will read from her fiction with fellow writers from Georgia State University in the New South Reading Series on Friday, September 12, 2008 at 7:30 p.m. at Wordsmiths Books, Decatur, Georgia.

Faculty member, Cathleen Calbert, will read with fellow poet Christina Pugh in the Blacksmith House Reading Series at 56 Brattle Street, Cambridge, Mass on Monday, December 8, 2008 at 8:00 p.m. Tickets are $3.00.