Creative Writing
EventsEach summer the Creative Writing progam sponsors a series of lively readings and talks that give student writers unique exposure to important voices in contemporary literature. In Summer 2008, Yale will be host to the following writers: |
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June 3 7 p.m. Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Reading by Nalo Hopkinson. Nalo Hopkinson, born in Jamaica, has lived in Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana and for the past 30 years in Canada. She is the author of three novels and a short story collection (Brown Girl in the Ring, Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, Skin Folk) as well as eitor of several fiction anthologies — Whispers From the Cotton Tree Root: Caribbean Fabulist Fiction, Mojo: Conjure Stories. Her newest is The New Moon's Arms. Much of her fiction draws on her the world of her Caribbean roots and its everyday magic. She is a recipient of the Warner Aspect First Novel Prize, the John W. Campbell Award for best new writer, the World Fantasy Award, and the Gaylactic Spectrum Award. |
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June 10 7 p.m. Location: Whitney Humanities
Center Tickets are free but limited!
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Interview and screening by Richard Price. Richard Price is the author of eight novels. His first was The Wanderers (1974), a coming-of-age story set in the Bronx in 1962, written when Price was 24 years old. It was adapted into a movie in 1979 by director Philip Kaufman. Price's later novels include Bloodbrothers (1976), Clockers (1992), filmed by Spike Lee, Freedomland (1998), Samaritan (2003), and the most recent, Lush Life (2008). Famed for his dialogue — both accurate and imaginative — Price has written numerous screenplays, including The Color of Money (1986) for which he was nominated for an Oscar, and Sea of Love (1989). He also wrote for the HBO series The Wire. In 1999, Price received the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. Presented in conjunction with Film Studies. |
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June 17 7 p.m. Location: Linsly-Chittenden Hall
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Reading by Junot Diaz. Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic His short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, which listed him as one of the 20 top writers for the 21st century. He is best known for the short story collection Drown (1996) and the novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. Diaz has received a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among many honors. He is active in the Dominican community and teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is a founding member of the Voices of Writing Workshop, a writing workshop focused on writers of color. |
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June 24 7 p.m. Location: Long Wharf Theatre
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The Pride of Parnell Street by Sebastian Barry. Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. His many plays, widely produced in Britain and Ireland, have won multiple awards and most recently include The Steward of Christendom, Our Lady of Sligo, Whistling Psyche, and The Pride of Parnell Street, which will receive its U.S. premier at the Long Wharf Theater as part of New Haven's 2008 International Festival of Arts and Ideas. A novelist and a poet as well as a playwright, Barry’s novel A Long, Long Way was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, 2005. His poetry collections include Fanny Hawke Goes to the Mainland Forever (1987) and The Pinkening Boy (2004). For children he has written Elsewhere (1985). |
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July 3 CHANGE IN DATE! 7 p.m. Location:
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Reading by Augusten Burroughs. Augusten Burroughs is the author of the memoirs Running with Scissors (2002) and Dry (2003), and the essay collections, Magical Thinking: True Stories (2004) and Possible Side Effects (2006), all of which were instant bestsellers both in hardcover and paperback. He is also the author of the novel, Sellevision (2000), which is currently in development for film. His books are published in over 25 countries. Running with Scissors remained on the New York Times bestseller list for over 150 consecutive weeks and was made into a film starring Annette Bening, Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Jill Clayburgh, Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Evan Rachel Wood. |
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