Reading Series
Creative Writing Program Reading Series, Fall 2021 -- Spring 2022
All events are free and open to the public.
FALL 2021
BEN YAGODA, nonfiction writer
Monday, September 20, 2021
Reading: 6:30 p.m. ESTCox Hall Ballroom (3rd floor Cox Hall)
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Colloquium: 1:00-2:00 p.m. ESTN301 Callaway (Kemp Malone Library)
TIPHANIE YANIQUE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH AND CREATIVE WRITING
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
The Phillis Wheatley Reading: 6:30 p.m. EST
Cox Hall Ballroom (3rd floor Cox Hall)
Co-sponsored by the Department of African American Studies
NOTICE: Emory’s COVID Leadership Team has granted a mask exemption for readers during this event. Enhanced safety protocols have been added to this event in response to the granted exemption.
JOINT READING WITH NEW FELLOWS
Yolanda J. Franklin, 2021-2022 Provost's Postdoctoral Fellow
Justin Haynes, 2021-2023 Nicholas Jenkins Barnett Fellow in Fiction
Maya Marshall, 2021-2023 Creative Writing Fellow in Poetry
Megan Tabaque, 2021-2023 Fellow in Playwriting
Tuesday, November 16, 2021:
Reading: 6:30 p.m. EST
Cox Hall Ballroom (3rd floor Cox Hall)
NOTICE: Emory’s COVID Leadership Team has granted a mask exemption for readers during this event. Enhanced safety protocols have been added to this event in response to the granted exemption.
SPRING 2022
RIVA LEHRER, artist, writer, and disability activist
Wednesday, April 13, 2022Reading: 6:00 pm
Book signing of Golem Girl: A Memoir to follow
Anthropology Building 303
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Disability Studies Initiative
AWARDS NIGHT
Readings by winners of the Creative Writing Program and English Department Annual Student Writing Contests
7:30 pm, Wednesday, April 20, 2022Emory Student Center N104
(ESC Multipurpose Room 4)
JAMAICA KINCAID, prose writer
DIANE SEUSS, poet
Monday, March 21, 2022 Postponed to Fall 2022
Plan Your Visit -- Learn about venues, campus transportation, fine dining and lodging discounts for patrons of the Creative Writing Program Reading Series and other arts events at Emory
Directions to and parking at Emory
The closest parking area is the visitors section of the Fishburne Parking Deck (1672 North Decatur Road), which is located next to the Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.