Beginning winter term of 2006, the University of Michigan will observe the 75th Anniversary of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Awards. In recognition of this bequest and its legacy, the anniversary will take the form of an ongoing celebration including no less than 12 separate events scheduled during the term and beyond, all open to the public.

The Hopwood Awards Program in collaboration with the University of Michigan School of Music and Theatre Department, The University of Michigan Department of English, the Office of Vice President for Communications, and the Special Collections Library presents:

The Hopwood 75th Anniversary Celebration
Calendar of Events

Alice Fulton Poetry Reading at the Hopwood Underclassmen Award Ceremony
January 24, 3:30 pm, Rackham Amphitheater

Alice Fulton's work has been included in five editions of The Best American Poetry series and in the 10th Anniversary edition, The Best of the Best American Poetry, 1988-1997. She has received a Pushcart Prize, the Bess Hokin Award from Poetry, The Elizabeth Matchett Stover Award from Southwest Review, and the Emily Dickinson and Consuelo Ford Awards from the Poetry Society of America. Poems also have appeared in Poetry, The New Yorker, Parnassus, The Paris Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and many other magazines. She is the author of Cascade Experiment: Selected Poems, Palladium, Powers of Congress, and other works. Alice Fulton is a past faculty member of the University of Michigan Department of English. The winner of a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship, Ms. Fulton recently was elected the Ann S. Bowers Professor in English at Cornell University. (http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/af89/)

Winter Term

Hopwood Film Festival

At the beginning of the term, the University will screen Gold Diggers of 1933, the iconic film based on Hopwood's play The Gold Diggers, starring Ginger Rodgers, Joan Blondell, and Dick Powell, with choreography by Busby Berkeley and containing such tunes as "We're in the Money." Thereafter the series will screen films written by past Hopwood awardees Arthur Miller, David Newman, and Laurence Kasdan. Professor Peter Bauland will teach a mini-course for University students on the subject of these films. Open to the public, the films will be shown on Monday evenings in the Michigan Theater at 7:00.

January 30 Gold Diggers of 1933
February 6 The Misfits Screenplay by Arthur Miller
February 13 Bonnie and Clyde Screenplay by David Newman
February 20 Body Heat Screenplay and direction by Lawrence Kasdan

Reading by Hopwood Award Winner Elizabeth Kostova
January 12, 5:00 pm, Rackham Ampitheater

Elizabeth Kostova graduated from Yale and holds an MFA from the University of Michigan where, as a student, she won the Hopwood Award for the Novel. She is the author of the recently published best-selling novel, The Historian.

Lecture and Reception for the Opening of the Exhibit: "Avery Hopwood's Legacy: Literary Descendents at Michigan"
February 8, 8:00 pm, Special Collections Library, 7th Floor, Hatcher Graduate Library

This exhibit of photos, books, and papers by Hopwood Award-winning authors Henry Van Dyke, Nancy Willard, Marge Piercy, and Emery George will be on display daily, open to the public, and will run from February 6 to June 24.

Avery Hopwood's The Gold Diggers
February 9-12

Under the direction of Philip Kerr, The University of Michigan Theatre Department's performances of Hopwood's widely popular, long-running 1919 play will take place at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, 7:30 pm on February 9th, 8:00 pm on the 10th and 11th, and 2:00 pm on the12th.

Live music by Phil Ogilvie's Rhythm Kings—musical direction by James Dapogny—will accompany the productions.

Panel Discussion: Avery Hopwood, Then and Now
February 10, Michigan Union, Kuenzel Room, 2:00 pm

Hopwood scholars Jack Stanley and Jack Sharrar and playwright Bruce Kellner will participate in a panel discussion on Hopwood's impact and legacy, moderated by Nicholas Delbanco and Philip Kerr.

Reading by Hopwood Award Winners Elwood Reid and Porter Shreve
April 6, 5:00 pm, Residential College Auditorium

Elwood Reid is the author of the novel If I Don't Six and the short story collection What Salmon Know. He spent two years working in Alaska as a carpenter. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. His latest novel is D.B. (Doubleday, 2004).

Porter Shreve's first novel, The Obituary Writer, was published by Houghton Mifflin in June 2000. He has co-edited six anthologies and published fiction and nonfiction in many journals and magazines, including Witness, Northwest Review, Salon, the Chicago Tribune, the San Francisco Chronicle and the New York Times. Drives Like a Dream (Houghton Mifflin, March 2005) is his second novel.

Hopwood Graduate and Undergraduate Awards Ceremony with Hopwood Lecture, "Losers," by Charles Baxter
April 21, Rackham Auditorium, 3:30 pm

Charles Baxter is the author of four novels, four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, a collection of essays on fiction, and is the editor of other books. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. His most recent novel is Saul and Patsy, Pantheon 2003, and he has recently published the essay collection Burning Down the House: Essays on Fiction, Graywolf Press, 1998. Charles Baxter has been a past faculty member with the University of Michigan's Department of English. (http://www.charlesbaxter.com/)

A reception for contestants and Mr. Baxter will follow the reading and presentation ceremony.

Release of The Hopwood Award: 75 Years of Prized Writing and Signing of Works by Hopwood Awardees
April 22, 10:00-12:00 am, Shaman Drum Bookshop

Marking the history of the Avery Hopwood and Jule Hopwood Award, The University of Michigan Press will release its compendium of works by Hopwood Award-winning writers of note, The Hopwood Awards: 75 Years of Prized Writing, edited by Nicholas Delbanco, Andrea Beauchamp, and Michael Barrett, introduced by Nicholas Delbanco.

Photos of Hopwood writers and copies of their works will be displayed in the windows of the Shaman Drum Bookshop for this event, and books by past Hopwood Award-winning authors included in the anthology will available for signing by their authors.

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Forthcoming in Winter 2007

MQR Hopwood Special Edition

The winter 2007 edition of the Michigan Quarterly Review will feature works and essays by and about recent Hopwood Award-winning authors. The edition will co-edited by Nicholas Delbanco and Laurence Goldstein. MQR invites manuscripts by Hopwood Award winners from 2000-2005. Deadline for manuscripts is May 15, 2006. Send mss. to MQR, 3575 Rackham The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070. Both prize-winning work and new work are invited.