Upcoming Creative Writing Events @ Fairfield
Sonya Huber
Dear Creative Writers,
We hope you will join us for an amazing roster of events this semester, starting with Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat this Wednesday!
Events
Wed., Feb. 12 @ 6:00 pm. Quick Center: Edwidge Danticat, the Wun Tsun Tam Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, is a celebrated author and scholar. She holds a BA in French literature from Barnard College and an MFA in creative writing from Brown University. A guest author at Fairfield's MFA in Creative Writing program's winter 2022 residency, Danticat has written 18 acclaimed books, including Breath, Eyes, Memory (an Oprah Book Club selection), Krik? Krak! (a National Book Award finalist), The Farming of Bones (an American Book Award winner), and The Art of Death (a National Book Critics Circle finalist). Her memoir, Brother, I’m Dying, won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist.
Tues., Feb. 18, 7:30 pm at DSB Event Hall: Lucy Ferriss, founder of Afghan Female Student Outreach: AFSO aims to educate university women at all levels who seek an academic bridge between their current situation and eventual enrollment in a degree-granting institution online or outside Afghanistan. Our long-term goal is to help educate the future leaders of Afghanistan, who will have the education and experience they need to help restore their country, and especially its women, if and when the regime changes. AFSO is committed to recruiting and educating women from both dominant and underrepresented communities within Afghanistan.
Wed., March 5, 7:30 pm, Quick Center: Joy Harjo: Joy Harjo, the 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate and member of the Muscogee Nation, is the author of ten books of poetry, several plays, children’s books, two memoirs, and seven music albums. Her honors include Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry, National Book Critics Circle Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, the Ruth Lily Prize from the Poetry Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Chair of the Native Arts & Cultures Foundation, and is the inaugural Artist-in-Residence for the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she lives.
Thurs., March 6 at 6 pm: Art Speaks
Join us on Thursday, March 6 at 6 p.m. in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries for a reading of original poems and short fiction by the Fairfield University community, inspired by the works on view in the exhibition Dawn & Dusk: Tonalism in Connecticut! The event is open to the public.
Want to submit your work? We welcome all submissions from Fairfield University students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
In order to present your work during Art Speaks!, you must: be a member of the University community; be willing to read your work at the event (or have a friend who's willing to do it on your behalf!); write a piece that responds to the artwork that's part of the Tonalism exhibition
Please submit your work to mus...@fairfield.edu by Thursday, February 27th.
Wed. March 17 @ 7 pm: Nonfiction writer Lynn Casteel Harper, Open Visions Forum @ Quick Center: Lynn Casteel Harper's On Vanishing: Mortality, Dementia, and What it Means to Disappear is a New York Times Book Editors' Choice selection that weaves together intimate reflections on her own family's history with dementia. She also draws on her work as a Baptist minister and nursing home chaplain and scientific, medical, and historical reflections on the disease. She will converse with National Book Award-winning author and Fairfield professor Phil Klay.