MFA Events Calendar
Douglas Trevor Reading at Nicola's Books
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Doug will be reading from his new novel, GIrls I Know.
Time: 7:00PM
Location: Nicola's Books
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
Tom Bissell
Thursday, September 26, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
The Business of Writing
Friday, September 27, 2013
Given the dramatic recent upheavals in publishing—from the swift rise of electronic readers to the ever more sales-driven approach of the big New York houses—it’s imperative that our writing students understand what those changes mean for authors, editors, and others in their industry.
The Business of Writing Symposium is centered on the question: What are the twin futures of writing and publishing, and how do the rapid changes in each affect the other? This complex question inspires anxiety in many writers and writing professionals, but we hope it can also spur a robust conversation, even leading to creative adaptations and fruitful collaborations.
Panelists TBA.
Keynote Address: Tom Bissell
Tom Bissell is a prizewinning writer who published three widely acclaimed books before the age of thirty-four. His work has appeared in The New Yorker and GQ, among many other publications, and he is a contributing editor to Harper's Magazine and the Virginia Quarterly Review. He lives in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches fiction writing at Portland State University. He is also an obsessive gamer who has spent untold hours in front of his various video game consoles, playing titles such as Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, BioShock, and Oblivion for, literally, days.
Extra Lives is an impassioned defense of this assailed and misunderstood art form. Blending memoir, criticism, and first-rate reportage, Extra Lives is like no other book on the subject ever published. Whether you love video games, loathe video games, or are merely curious about why they are becoming the dominant popular art form of our time, Extra Lives is required reading.
Time: 1:00PM
Location: Rackham Auditorium
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
State of the Book
Saturday, September 28, 2013
Michigan is home to a diverse community of writers whose work inspires, enlightens, and engages. On Saturday, September 28, the University of Michigan’s English Department Writing Program and its Helen Zell Writers’ Program will celebrate Michigan’s great writers and the state’s enduring literary traditions at the 2nd annual State of the Book Symposium & Bookfair, co-hosting a day-long series of public events in Rackham Auditorium that showcase the state’s leading literary stars, as well as the next generation of Michigan writers:
• a reading and presentation by elementary school writers affiliated with 826michigan, in conjunction with the release of their annual OMNIBUS anthology;
• a performance poetry event starring teen participants from the Neutral Zone and InsideOut Literary Arts Project;
• panels on women writing memoir, writers from the Upper Peninsula, and writers who use the supernatural to elucidate Michigan’s past and to imagine its future;
• a bookfair in Rackham Lobby, featuring more than a dozen presses and literary journals from across the state of Michigan.
The day’s events will conclude with a keynote conversation featuring an award-winning fiction writer or poet—last year’s conversation was between Charles Baxter, an award-winning fiction writer and novelist, and Philip Levine, a former Poet Laureate of the United States and winner of a Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Time: 10:00AM
Location: Rackham Lobby and Auditorium
Website:
http://stateofthebook.com/
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
Chris Castellani
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
Edward Hirsch Poetry Reading
Tuesday, November 05, 2013
Reception and booksigning from 5-6p in the UMMA Forum
Time: 6:00PM
Location: UMMA Apse
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
A Conversation with Edward Hirsch
Thursday, November 07, 2013
Time: 5:10PM
Location: Helmut Stern Auditorium, UMMA
Contact:
mslevad@umich.edu
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