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SUMMARY:Coker Visiting Writer Reading: Hannah Marshall
DESCRIPTION:The Converse Creative and Professional Writing program will host award-winning poet\, and MFA in creative writing alumna\, Hannah Marshall on Tuesday\, February 24\, 2026\, at 8:00 PM in Zimmerli Common Room. Marshall will read from her debut book\, Leaf Collection\, winner of the Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize. Copies of the book will be available for purchase. \nHannah Marshall is an award-winning poet who currently lives in Grand Rapids\, Michigan\, where she works as a public librarian. Marshall’s poem “This Is a Love Poem to Trees” was selected by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith for The Best American Poetry 2021. Marshall’s poems have also appeared in Poetry Daily\, New Ohio Review\, The South Carolina Review\, Atlanta Review\, The Madison Review\, Wisconsin Review\, The American Journal of Poetry\, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Converse University. \nLeaf Collection is published by Clemson University press through the Clemson-Converse Literature Series.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/coker-visiting-writer-reading-hannah-marshall/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Cultural Events,General Events,Humanities,Visiting Lecturers
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SUMMARY:A Curious Heart Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:A Curious Heart\, biography of author and Converse graduate\, Elizabeth Boatwright Coker (Class of 1929)\, written by her daughter and granddaughter\, was released in 2024. \nElizabeth Boatwright Coker\, was editor of the literary magazine at Converse\, the author of 9 novels\, and was inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors in 1990. \nA conversation with authors\, Penelope Coker and Eliza Ingle\, will be held at in Zimmerli Commons at Converse University on Wednesday\, February 4\, 2026\, from 4:30-6:00 PM. Author and Converse Trustee\, Michel Smoak Stone ’99\, M.Ed. will facilitate the conversation. \nHub City Press will sell copies of the book during the event.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/a-curious-heart-book-discussion/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,General Events
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SUMMARY:Unsheltered in Hub City: A Public Reading and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a public reading by Converse alum and author Susan Zurenda ’77 of her novel Girl at the Red Rose Motel\, followed by a panel discussion with community leaders\, working to addressed housing insecurity and displacement in the Spartanburg area. \nPanelists include Colin Bauer\, Well Being Coordinator\, Spartanburg School District 7; Jessica Case Holland ’03\, Attorney; Marilyn Nguyen\, Equity & Inclusion Officer\, City of Spartanburg; and Hannah Jarrett\, Director\, A Place Called Home. \nAll are welcome! \nZurenda’s novel\, Girl at the Red Rose Motel\, will be available for purchase at the event for $27 per copy (cash\, credit card\, and check accepted). \nHosted in collaboration with Hub City Bookshop.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/unsheltered-in-hub-city-a-public-reading-and-discussion/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Alumni,Art,Cultural Events,General Events,Visiting Lecturers
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SUMMARY:Susan Tekulve & Rhonda Browning-White Book Reading
DESCRIPTION:Join Converse Associate Professor Susan Tekulve and Converse MFA alumna Rhonda Browning-White on March 19\, 2025\, at 8 PM in Zimmerli Common Room\, adjacent to Howard Hall\, to celebrate the launch of their two new books and a reading from each. \nSusan Tekulve is launching her new poetry collection\, Bodies of Light; Converse University MFA Alumna Rhonda Browning-White is celebrating her new novel\, Filling the Big Empty. \nThis event is open to the public.\n \nAbout the Authors\nRhonda Browning White is the author of two books of fiction\, including The Lightness of Water and Other Stories\, winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction\, and her most recent book\, the novel Filling the Big Empty\, which was published by Redhawk Publications. She is currently editing the Appalachian Grit Lit Anthology\, forthcoming in 2025 by Redhawk Publications. Her work also appears in The Ignatian Literary Magazine\, Entropy\, Prime Number Magazine\, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel\, Qu Literary Journal\, HeartWood Literary Review\, Bellevue Literary Review\, Steel Toe Review\, Ploughshares Writing Lessons\, Mountain Echoes\, Gambit\, Justus Roux\, Bluestone Review\, and in the anthologies Appalachia (Un)Broken\, Ice Cream Secrets\, Appalachia’s Last Stand\, and Mountain Voices. Rhonda has an MFA in Creative Writing Fiction from Converse University in Spartanburg\, SC and was awarded the Watson Fellowship and a Standiford Scholarship from Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise. She lives in Hickory\, NC. \nSusan Tekulve’s newest book\, Bodies of Light\, is her first full-length poetry collection. She is the author of Second Shift: Essays (Del Sol Press) and In the Garden of Stone (Hub City Press)\, winner of the South Carolina Novel Prize and a Gold IPPY Award. She’s also published two short story collections: Savage Pilgrims (Serving House Books) and My Mother’s War Stories (Winnow Press). Her nonfiction\, fiction\, and poetry appeared in journals such as Denver Quarterly\, Indiana Review\, The Georgia Review\, Connecticut Review\, The Louisville Review\, Puerto del Sol\, New Letters\, and Shenandoah. Her web chapbook\, Wash Day\, appears in the Web Del Sol International Chapbook Series. She has received scholarships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She teaches in the BFA and MFA writing programs at Converse University. \n  \nThis event is part of the Coker Visiting Writer Series at Converse University.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/susan-tekulve-rhonda-browning-white-book-reading/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Events,Humanities,Visiting Lecturers
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SUMMARY:Tyree Daye: 2024 Coker Visiting Writer
DESCRIPTION:Join the Converse BFA in Creative and Professional Writing for a reading by award-winning poet Tyree Daye on October 22 at 8:00 p.m. in Zimmerli Common Room\, Howard Hall. Free and open to the public. \nTyree Daye was raised in Youngsville\, North Carolina. He is the author of the poetry collections A Little Bump in the Earth (Copper Canyon Press\, 2024)\, Cardinal (Copper Canyon Press\, 2020)\, and River Hymns (American Poetry Review\, 2017)\, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. A Cave Canem fellow and a Palm Beach Poetry Festival Langston Hughes Fellow\, Daye is the recipient of a Whiting Writers Award\, a Kate Tufts Award finalist\, and a 2021 Paterson Prize finalist. He was the 2019 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-In-Residence at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and received an Amy Clampitt Residency. Daye is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill and a core faculty member in the Converse Low Residency MFA. In January 2023\, Daye served as Guest Editor of the Poem-a-Day series. \nContact Prof. Rick Mulkey\, Director of the BFA in Creative and Professional Writing\, for more information.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/tyree-daye-2024-coker-visiting-writer/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Events,Lifelong Learning,Visiting Lecturers
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SUMMARY:Cary Holladay\, 2024 Coker Visiting Writer
DESCRIPTION:Join the BFA Creative and Professional Writing program for a reading with award-winning author Cary Holladay on October 25\, at 8:00 p.m. in Zimmerli Common Room\, Howard Hall. \nCary Holladay has published eight volumes of fiction as well as a pictorial history of Glen Allen\, Va. Over 100 of her stories and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies\, including Alaska Quarterly Review\, Arkansas Review\, Black Warrior Review\, Blackbird\, Cincinnati Review\, Ecotone\, Epoch\, Georgia Review\, Glimmer Train\, The Hudson Review\, Kenyon Review\, New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best\, Oxford American\, The Southern Review\, Tin House\, and Virginia Quarterly Review. \nHer awards include an O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts\, the Tennessee Arts Commission\, and the National Endowment for the Arts. \nCary Holladay is a Professor of English\, Emeritus\, at the University of Memphis\, where she was named a First Tennessee Professor and served as director of the creative writing program. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Converse University. She and her husband\, the poet and fiction writer John Bensko\, live in Rapidan\, Virginia \nContact Prof. Rick Mulkey\, Director of the BFA in Creative and Professional Writing\, for more information.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/cary-holladay-2024-coker-visiting-writer/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Events,Humanities,Lifelong Learning,Visiting Lecturers
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SUMMARY:(Canceled) Coker Visiting Writer: Cary Holladay
DESCRIPTION:This event has been canceled. \nJoin us Tuesday\, April 16\, 2024\, at 7:30 pm for a reading by Coker Visiting Writer\, Cary Holladay. Holladay is an award-winning fiction writer\, author of multiple books\, including Horse People: Stories\, and The Quick-Change Artist: Stories. Free and open to the public. \nHosted by the BFA in Creative and Professional Writing. \nThe event will be held in the Zimmerli Common Room of Howard Hall.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/coker-visiting-writer-cary-holladay/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Events,Humanities,Visiting Lecturers
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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
CATEGORIES:General Events,Humanities,Visiting Lecturers
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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:Robert Olmstead: Sara Lura Mathews Self Writer-in-Residence Reading
DESCRIPTION:The Creative and Professional Writing Program is excited to host award-winning novelist Robert Olmstead for a reading on September 20 at 8:00 p.m. in Zimmerli Common Room\, Howard Hall. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Prof. Rick Mulkey with questions. \nRobert Olmstead is the author of nine books\, including Savage Country which was published by Algonquin\, and was an Amazon “Best Book of October 2017.” Other recent award-winning novels include The Coldest Night\, and Coal Black Horse published by Algonquin Books. He also has published a textbook for fiction-writing workshops (“Elements of the Craft”) and a non-fiction memoir (“Stay Here with Me: A Memoir”)\, plus numerous individual stories and essays in some of our nation’s finest magazines. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and an NEA grant. He has taught in numerous colleges\, universities and writing workshops\, including Dickinson College\, UC Irvine\, Boise State University and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg\, Russia. His novel Far Bright Star is in the early stages of production as a feature film directed by Casey Affleck and adapted for the screen by Damien Ober. \nOlmstead is a core faculty member in the Converse Low Residency MFA program\, and he is visiting campus for a month in Fall 2022 as the Sara Lura Mathews Self Writer-in-Residence\, and is teaching an Advanced Tutorial Fiction course.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/robert-olmstead-reading/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
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SUMMARY:Creative & Professional Writing Program Info Session: MFA and BFA
DESCRIPTION:Discover Why Converse is the Place to Write Your Next Book \nDrop in for an information session on South Carolina’s only Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing and on our BFA program in Creative and Professional Writing: Thursday\, September 1 from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in Zimmerli Common Room\, Howard Hall (near the cabin on back campus). \nProgram features include: award-winning faculty in poetry\, fiction\, YA fiction\, and creative nonfiction\, as well as opportunities to work with visiting writers\, editors\, and agents.  \nFor MFA students there is a flexible schedule with brief on-campus residency sessions followed by mentoring semesters from your home. Scholarships\, publishing prizes\, and additional opportunities for both MFA and BFA students. \n 
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/creative-professional-writing-program-info-session-mfa-and-bfa/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:Cultural Events,General Events,Humanities
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220427T193000
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SUMMARY:Creative Writing Faculty Reading: Susan Tekulve\, Sarah Cooper\, Rick Mulkey
DESCRIPTION:The Converse BFA and MFA faculty and staff reading will take place in Zimmerli Common Room Howard Hall at 7:30 p.m. on April 27. Faculty authors reading from new work include Susan Tekulve\, author of five books of fiction and nonfiction and faculty member in the BFA and MFA writing programs; Sarah Cooper\, author of 89%\, winner of the Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize and assistant director of the MFA in Creative Writing\, and Rick Mulkey\, author of six books of poetry and director of the BFA and MFA Creative Writing programs.
URL:https://www.converse.edu/event/creative-writing-faculty-reading-susan-tekulve-sarah-cooper-rick-mulkey/
LOCATION:Zimmerli Common\, 580 East Main Street\, Spartanburg\, SC\, 29302\, United States
CATEGORIES:General Events,Humanities
ORGANIZER;CN="Converse University Creative Writing Program":MAILTO:rick.mulkey@converse.edu
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