The Ithaca College Distinguished Visiting Writers Series, supported by the Department of Writing and the School of Humanities and Sciences, is proud to host a virtual reading and Q&A with Dylan Thomas Prize-winning fiction writer Bryan Washington on Thursday (9/30) from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Bryan Washington is a National Book Award 5 Under 35 honoree and winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He received the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award for his first book, Lot, a collection of short stories set in Houston, Texas. His first novel, Memorial, was a New York Times Notable book of 2020 and one of TIME's books of the year. He has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, Bon Appétit, and GQ, among other publications. He is a George Guion Williams Writer-in-Residence and Scholar-in-Residence for Racial Justice at Rice University.
Washington's short stories have appeared several times in The New Yorker and are available to read (and often listen to) online: "Waugh," "Visitor," and "Heirlooms" (the latter is an excerpt from Washington's novel Memorial).
You can also check out some of Washington's essays here: "The Thing About Homophobia" and "Based on a True Story: Why Don't POC Writers of Literary Fiction Get the Benefit of the Doubt?"
