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.
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.
The 7th Annual New Voices Festival, a celebration of emerging writers, is taking place Wed., April 17th to Fri., April 19th.
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?
The 7th Annual New Voices Festival, a celebration of emerging writers, is taking place Wed., April 17th to Fri, April 19th.
Check out our panels and readings taking place this Friday in the Handwerker Gallery:
Panel 11:00 - 11:50 AM
Writing Through Walls: Whose stories are ours to tell?
This panel will be moderated by Professor Vinita Prabhakar and will feature writers: Sarah Viren, Rumaan Alam, Javier Zamora, and Emma Kemp.
Panel 2:00 - 2:50 PM
Empty Nesters: What is our relationship to our work after it's published?
Join Nebula, Hugo, and World Fantasy Award winner Ken Liu, who will be presenting on and reading from his work.
David Lazar is the author of three essay collections — I’ll Be Your Mirror, Occasional Desire, and The Body of Brooklyn — and the prose poetry collection Powder Town. The editor of several anthologies on the essay — among them Truth in Nonfictionand After Montaigne — he also is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. Lazar teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.