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SUMMARY:Coker Visiting Writers Series: Dustin Brookshire and Marlanda Dekine
DESCRIPTION:The BFA program in Creative and Professional Writing announces a reading with visiting writers Dustin Brookshire and Marlanda Dekine on Tuesday\, October 3\, 4:00 – 5:00 p.m.\, Location: Zimmerli Common Room\, Howard Hall. The event is free and open to the public. \nDustin Brookshire (he/him) is the author of the chapbooks Never Picked First For Playtime (Harbor Editions\, 2023)\, Love Most Of You Too (Harbor Editions\, 2021)\, and To The One Who Raped Me (Sibling Rivalry Press\, 2012). His poetry has been featured on NPR and other radio stations as well as in Georgia Poetry in the Parks and earned him Pushcart and Best of the Net Nominations. He’s the co-editor of Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology (Madville Publishing\, 2023)\, co-editor of a forthcoming forms anthology from Harbor Anthologies\, and editor of the forthcoming chapbook anthology When I Was Straight. Dustin is currently completing his Master of Fine Arts degree in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing at Converse. Find him online at dustinbrookshire.com \nMarlanda Dekine is the author of Thresh & Hold (Hub City Press) and i am from a punch & a kiss. Her work has been anthologized in What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People and Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and Justice in an Entangled World. She is a South Carolina Arts Commission Spoken Word/Slam Poetry fellow\, Castle of our Skins Shirley Graham Dubois Creative in Residence\, Tin House scholar\, and Palm Beach Poetry Langston Hughes fellow. Her poems have been set to music by Omar Najmi and Douglas Boyce\, sung by Kelley Hollis\, and published by the Poetry Foundation\, Orion Magazine\, Oxford American\, and elsewhere. She received a Governor’s Award from South Carolina Humanities and the New Southern Voices in Poetry Prize from Hub City Press. She is currently completing her MFA thesis in the Converse Low Residency MFA.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/coker-visiting-writers-series-dustin-brookshire-and-marlanda-dekine/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Coker Visiting Writers Series: Leslie Pietrzyk
DESCRIPTION:Leslie Pietrzyk\nThe BFA Creative and Professional Writing program is pleased to announce a reading by novelist and story writer Leslie Pietrzyk on October 24 at 8:00 p.m.\, in Zimmerli Common Room. The event is free and open to the public. \nLeslie Pietryzk’s\, first collection of short stories\, This Angel on My Chest\, won the 2015 Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was published by University of Pittsburgh Press. Pietrzyk\, a novelist and short story writer\, has published multiple award-winning books\, including her most recent book\, a collection of linked short stories set in Washington\, DC\, Admit This to No One\, which was published in late 2021 to critical acclaim. Her previous novel\, Silver Girl\, published in 2018\, received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. In addition\, she is the author of the two novels\, Pears on a Willow Tree (Avon) and A Year and a Day (William Morrow). Her award-winning short fiction and essays have appeared in\, among others\, Ploughshares\, Story Magazine\, The Hudson Review\, Southern Review\, Arts & Letters\, Shenandoah\, The Gettysburg Review\, The Iowa Review\, Washingtonian\, The Sun\, Salon\, New England Review\, River Styx\, Hobart\, Midwestern Gothic\, Cincinnati Review\, and The Washington Post Magazine. Awards include a Pushcart Prize in 2020 and the 2020 Creative Arts Prize from the Polish American Historical Association. Organizations awarding fellowships include the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference\, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference\, the Hermitage Artist Retreat\, Virginia Center for the Arts\, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts\, the Hambidge Center\, Jentel Foundation\, and Hawthornden International Retreat at Hawthornden Castle in Scotland.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/coker-visiting-writers-series-leslie-pietrzyk/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
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