[Yale-readings] Fwd: SCSU Visiting Writers' Series, Spring 2004

[Nancy Kuhl]

Here's the mostly confirmed list of readers for the Southern Connecticut 
State University spring Visiting Writers' Series.   This list does not 
include FOLIO readings:

Thursday, February 19th, 8 p.m., EN A120, fiction writer Allen Wier (see 
bio below).

Connecticut Student Poets (featuring our own Greg Antonini), time during 
the days February 24-26 yet to be confirmed.

Monday, March 8th, 7:45 p.m. EN A120, fiction writer Kevin Canty (author of 
the amazing short story collection, A STRANGER IN THIS WORLD, as well as 
another story collection, two novels and even a novelization of the movie 
"Rounders").

Thursday, April 15th, EN A120, 8 p.m. fiction writer Valerie Vogrin.

Monday, April 19, one p.m., Commons Room, poet, memoirist and Southern 
grad, Sheila Squillante.

Tentatively: Wednesday, April 28th, 8 p.m., EN A120, fiction writer John 
McNally and unconfirmed poet.

Also TBA, SCSU fiction contest winners' reading.

Y'all come!  And encourage your friends and students to come.

  Allen Wier (pronounced Wire) is the author of a collection of stories, 
Things About to Disappear(LSU Press and Avon/Bard), and three novels, 
Blanco (LSU Press, Avon/Bard, and Harper & Row), Departing as Air (Simon & 
Schuster), A Place for Outlaws (Harper & Row). He's edited an anthology, 
Walking on Water and other stories (Univ. of Alabama Press), and co-edited 
Voicelust, a collection of essays on style in contemporary fiction (Univ. 
of Nebraska Press). In 1997 he received the Chubb LifeAmerica Robert Penn 
Warren Award, conferred by the Fellowship of Southern Writers biennially to 
"recognize an outstanding young Southern writer of fiction." Wier is also 
the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a grant from the National 
Endowment for the Arts, and a Dobie-Paisano Fellowship from the University 
of Texas and the Texas Institute of Letters. His fiction, essays, and 
reviews appear in such publications as Southern Review, Five Points, 
Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Texas Review, and the New York Times. He was 
named Travel Writer of the Year (1994) by the Alabama Bureau of Travel. 
Wier recently completed a long historical novel, CLOUD OF WITNESSES, set in 
Texas during the Comanche wars, and he is completing a literary thriller, 
SKIN FOR SKIN, as well as a volume of new and selected short stories. In 
2001 he was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers and 
was inducted at the FSW s biennial meeting in April 2003. He has taught at 
Longwood College, Carnegie-Mellon university, Hollins College, the 
University of Texas, Florida International University, and the University 
of Alabama. Born in Texas, an only child, he grew up in Texas, Louisiana 
and Mexico--where his father explored the jungles of Veracruz seeking ferns 
and flowers to import for the wholesale flower business in San Antonio. 
Allen Wier has received the Distinguished Teaching Chair in the English 
Department at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he lives with 
his wife, Donnie, and their son, Wesley.


From: "tparrish" <tparrish at snet.net>




Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
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