Reading

This week's webisode: Book Share

Join us live as we discuss what we've been reading and exchange ideas with one another

Joy Castro is the award-winning author of the memoir The Truth Book, two literary thrillers set in post-Katrina New Orleans: Hell or High Water and Nearer Home, the essay collection Island of Bones, and the short fiction collection How Winter Began. Castro teaches creative writing, literature, and Latinx Studies at the University of Nebraska.

Danez Smith is a poz writer and poet from St. Paul, MN. They are the author of the poetry collections Don't Call us Dead, [insert] Boy, and Homie. They have won the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry, the Forward Prize, and the Poetry Society of America's inaugural Four Quartets Prize.

A former staff writer for the Washington Post magazine, Walt Harrington has published two memoirs that blend autobiography and reportage, Crossings: A White Man's Journey into Black America and The Everlasting Stream: A True Story of Rabbits, Guns, Friendship, and Family. Harrington has won numerous writing awards.

We are holding our first-ever auditions for our productions this semester!

This semester, we are producing the plays "Cloud of Witness" by Dorothy L. Sayers and adapted by Tristan Berlet and an original work entitled "The Assist" by Noah Pantano

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Join Stillwater for Read, Write, and Improv Night this Tuesday at 7pm in the Handwerker Gallery!

Enjoy flash-readings from your peers and professors, and feel free to read something of your own – a poem scribbled on the back of a receipt, an excerpt from your novel, a deeply personal essay in your iPhone notes – anything under 5 minutes.

Then, hang around for the improv part. Grab a prompt from a hat, write something in ten minutes, and maybe share it, maybe not!

Bring your creativity, and we’ll bring the snacks.

The 7th Annual New Voices Festival, a celebration of emerging writers, is taking place Wed., April 17th to Fri., April 19th.

This Thursday come to our panels, reading, and music perfomance all in the Handwerker Gallery as listed below:

Panel 12:10 - 1 PM

Choose Your Own Adventure: What does it mean to identify as a writer?

This panel will be moderated by IC Economics Professor Jen Tennant and will feature writers: Sarah Viren, Clare Barron, Javier Zamora, and Aja Gabel.

Panel 2:35 - 3:30 PM

Citizen-Scribes: Is all writing a political act?