Upcoming Creative Writing Events at and around Fairfield!

[Sonya Huber]

Sept. 9-10: StoryFest at the Westport Library! with Keynote

Best-selling authors poet Saaed Jones will be in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald on Friday, Sept. 9 at 6 pm at the Westport Library, the kickoff event for StoryFest 2022. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/storyfest-2022-keynote-isaac-fitzgerald-and-saeed-jones-tickets-391318222337

Full schedule here:

Sept. 13 at 7:30 pm: Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, memoirist and fiction writer, at the Quick Center. https://quickcenter.fairfield.edu/2022-23-season-calendar/lectures/ovfe-said-sayrafiezadeh.html

Sayrafiezadeh is the author, most recently, of the story collection, American Estrangement, a finalist for The L.A. Times Book Prize. His memoir, When Skateboards Will Be Free, was selected as one of the 10 best books of the year by Dwight Garner of The New York Times, and his story collection, Brief Encounters With the Enemy, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Fiction Prize.

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Sonya Huber

Coordinator, Undergraduate Creative Writing Concentration

Faculty, Fairfield U. Low-Residency MFA Program

Editor, Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry and Prose

Professor, Dept. of English

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