Grand Valley State University Department of Writing welcomes the public to the Allendale Campus for the winter semester Writing Series of free readings and discussions.
Award-winning writer Michael Martone will read from his fiction and nonfiction on Thursday, January 25, at 7:30 p.m. in the Sherman Van Solkema recital hall in the Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus. Martone is currently a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at the University of Alabama, where he has been teaching since 1996. Born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana, he is the author of five books of short fiction and two collections of essays. His book The Flatness and Other Landscapes, a collection of his essays about the Midwest, won the AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction in 1998.
Thursday, February 15, brings the Emmy-nominated comedy writer Kristin Gore, who has written for television shows including Saturday Night Live and Futurama and is author of the humorous political novel Sammy’s Hill. Gore is a graduate of Harvard, where she was an editor of the Harvard Lampoon. Her reading is at 7 p.m., in the Louis Armstrong Theatre, Allendale Campus.
Joe Wenderoth is the author of the novel Letters to Wendy's and two poetry collections, Disfortune and It Is if I Speak. The associate professor of English at the University of California, Davis, teaches in the creative writing program. He is reading on Monday, March 19, at 7 p.m. in the Sherman Van Solkema Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, Allendale Campus.
For more information call (616) 331-3601 or visit www.gvsu.edu/writing.
