Creative Writing Program

Program Calendar

Look here for announcements of events and deadlines in Creative Writing, including literary readings, occasional Friday morning "workshops" on special topics (graduate writing programs, for example, or careers in writing), readings of student work, meetings of Creative Writing's standing committees; social events for majors and faculty. For more information e-mail the Creative Writing Program or call 404-727-4683.

Visitor parking available in the Fishburne Parking Deck

FALL 2008

Friday, September 5, 2008. Free.

Creativity & Arts Soirée

Celebrate Emory's Creative Campus

A launch party for the new Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts

Location: Schwartz Performing Arts Center

Neighbors and the Emory community mix and mingle and enjoy a sampling of Emory's 2008-2009 season of performing, visual, film, and literary arts, and celebrate the new Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts (CCA).

3:30-5:15 p.m. Exclusive Soirée for Students.
A great opportunity for students interested in the arts!
Light Refreshments

5:15 p.m. Premiering of Plato's Cave
Art Installation by Kombo Chapfika 06C. Commissioned by STIPE Society.
Reception follows.

5:30-8:30 p.m. Soirée for Emory's neighbors, faculty, staff, alumni, graduate students, and Friends of the Arts. Circulate through the Schwartz Center and preview the arts season with artists and scholars from each discipline.

5:45 p.m. Toast celebrating the CCA Launch. Refreshments generously provided by Le Giverny.

Attire: Creative

Please RSVP to 404-712-9214 or creativity@emory.edu by Tuesday, September 2

August 22-October 3

English Department graduate student Laura Norman has curated an exhibition of the library of Gwendolyn Brooks, which Kevin Young, curator of the Danowski Poetry Library, acquired for the Danowski collection in 2006. "My Dreams, My Works" is made up of signed books, letters from Langston Hughes and others, and even Brooks's childhood dictionary with her annotations. The exhibit provides great insight into Brooks's centrality to the last century of writing. Location: Schatten Gallery, Third Floor, Woodruff Library

Hanif Kureishi Visit to Emory University

Monday, September 8
7 p.m., Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall
One of the leading writers of our time, Hanif Kureishi will discuss his life and work and read from his new novel, Something To Tell You. Kureishi is author of such noted novels as The Buddha of Suburbia and Intimacy and screenwriter of such films as My Beautiful Laundrette and Venus.

The event is part of the Provost Office Luminaries in the Arts and Humanities Series and is co-sponsored by the Creativity & Arts Strategic Initiative and Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts.

Film Screenings in honor of Hanif Kureishi’s Emory visit:

Wednesday, September 3
My Beautiful Laundrette, 8 p.m., White Hall 205 (director: Stephen Frears, UK, 1985, stars Gordon Warnecke and Daniel Day-Lewis)

Wednesday, September 10
Venus, 8 p.m., White Hall 205 (director: Roger Michell, UK, 2006, 95 min., stars Peter O’Toole)

Films are shown in 35mm.

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

PERCIVAL EVERETT, novelist

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
RECEPTION: 6 p.m.
THE PHILLIS WHEATLEY READING, 6:30 p.m.
Booksigning to follow reading
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Wednesday, September 24, 2008
COLLOQUIUM, 2-3 p.m.
Kemp-Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the African American Studies Department

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

THERESA REBECK, playwright, screenwriter and novelist

Monday, November 10, 2008
RECEPTION: 6 p.m.
READING: 6:30 p.m.
Booksigning to follow reading
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Kemp-Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Theater Studies Department, the Playwriting Center at Theater Emory and the Film Studies Department

SPRING 2009

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

ALYCE MILLER, fiction writer

Monday, March 2, 2009
RECEPTION: 6 p.m.
THE FEMINIST FOUNDERS' READING: 6:30 p.m.
Booksigning to follow reading
Joseph W. Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library

Tuesday, March 3, 2009
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.
Kemp-Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Department of Women's Studies and the Center for Women

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES

HA JIN, fiction writer and poet

Monday, April 20, 2009
READING AT AWARDS NIGHT, 8 p.m.
Cannon Chapel sanctuary (second floor)
Booksigning and reception to follow in Brooks Commons (first floor)

Tuesday, April 21, 2008
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.,
Kemp Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund

At the Emory Libraries:

Through May 12, 2008:

Visions and Revisions: An Exhibition of Poems in Process in Emory’s Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (Level 10, Woodruff Library). This exhibition, curated by Jenni Brady, traces the development through multiple manuscript drafts of a series of individual poems drawn from Emory’s collections.

Poets whose work is included in the exhibition include: Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Anthony Hecht, Michael Longley, Medbh McGuckian, Lucille Clifton, Seamus Heaney, Carol Ann Duffy, as well as Kevin Young and Natasha Trethewey. A special thanks to Kevin and Nathasha for loaning materials for this exhibition. Visions and Revisions will remain on view through Emory’s Commencement and is open during MARBL’s regular hours (Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m.-5:30 p.m.).

In addition, a small selection of items from the recently-acquired Alice Walker papers are also on view in MARBL’s reference area on Level 10 of the library.

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Through May 26, 2008:

Democratic Vistas: Exploring the Raymond Danowski Poetry Library
Main and Corridor Galleries (Schatten Gallery, 3rd floor, Woodruff Library)

Curated by Kevin Young, Curator, Raymond Danowski Poetry Library Atticus Haygood Professor of Creative Writing and English

“Democratic Vistas” presents four areas of strength in the Danowski collection: First Books (and early editions); Author Collections; Isms (movements and communities); and Small Presses (and little magazines).

For more information on the Danowski Poetry Library and the exhibit, please visit the Schatten Gallery website at http://web.library.emory.edu/libraries/schatten/

CREATIVE WRITING SENIOR MAJORS' READING
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
6:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Reading
White Hall 206

Readings by Creative Writing senior majors Fatima Ahmed, Adina Fleming, Acree Graham, Hamzat Sani, Eric Stein, Andrew Swerlick and Jennifer Taylor.

CREATIVITY CONVERSATIONS

Reading by English Department professor Michael Elliott, author of Custerology; and
A Dialogue with Natasha Trethewey (Phillis Wheatley Distingiushed Chair and Professor of Poetry, winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and fiction writer Dorothy Allison (Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry Visiting Distinguished Professor) about their work.

Tuesday, April 15
7 p.m.
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Reception Hall (third floor)

RSVP to creativity@emory.edu or 404-712-9214

Sponsors: Emory College Center for Creativity & Arts; The Creative Writing Program; Bill and Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry; and Emory University Creativity & Arts Initiative

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM READING SERIES
RICHARD POWERS, novelist

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
READING AT AWARDS NIGHT, 8 p.m.
Cannon Chapel
Signing* and reception to follow reading

Thursday, April 17, 2008
COLLOQUIUM, 2:30-3:30 p.m.,
Kemp Malone Library, N301 Callaway Center

Co-sponsored by the Hightower Fund

*Please note: Mr. Powers does not autograph books, but he will autograph cards we will have available from the publisher.

POETRY COUNCIL READING SERIES

ANDREW ZAWACKI & JULIE CARR, poets
Thursday, April 17, 2008
READING: 8:00 pm
Harris Hall Parlor

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