Tufts English Department Creative Writing Showcase

Tufts University 419 Boston Ave, Medford, Massachusetts, United States

A reading from recent books by faculty and staff, followed by an audience Q&A. Featuring Poetry alum Jennifer LeBlanc (June 2012). This event will follow Tufts' COVID protocols. Please complete the health survey and wear a mask. The event will be held in the Sophia Gordon Hall, Room 100.

Free

Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival: Short Fiction Story Awards Ceremony

Facebook Live

Hosted by fiction alum Celeste Mohammed (June 2016) and featuring remarks by Dr. Elizabeth Nunez, the Short Fiction Story Awards Ceremony will celebrate the work of Patrice Grell-Yursik and Akhim Alexis. Streaming live from the BCLF Facebook page.

Free

Lily Poetry Salon Celebrates Jon D. Lee & Michael Mercurio

Online Event

Join the Lily Poetry Salon as they celebrate Jon D Lee's (Poetry, January 2017) In/Desiderato. Jon D. Lee is the author of four books, including IN/DESIDERATO and An Epidemic of Rumors: How Stories Shape Our Perceptions of Disease. His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in The Atlantic, Sugar House Review, Sierra Nevada […]

Free

Creative Writing Minor Speaker Series: Enzo Silon Surin & Cheryl Clark Vermeulen

Online Zoom Event

The final reading in the Creative Writing Minor Speaker Series. A reading & conversation about first books, literary friendships, and interdisciplinary arts. Enzo Silon Surin (Poetry, 2012), Haitian-born poet, educator, speaker, publisher and social advocate, is the author of When My Body Was A Clinched Fist (Black Lawrence Press, July 2020) and two chapbooks, A Letter of Resignation: An […]

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Dr. Lisa Gruenberg discusses her memoir My City of Dreams with Laurel Braitman

Online Event

Join author Dr. Lisa Gruenberg (Nonfiction, June 2007) for a virtual reading and discussion of her second-generation Holocaust memoir, My City of Dreams. This event, hosted by the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics and their Medicine and the Muse Program, will be moderated by Laurel Braitman, the program’s Director of Writing and Storytelling and author […]

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Holiday Book Signing of The Barn with Leah H. Rogers

Canio's Books 290 Main Street, Sag Harbor, New York, United States

Holiday book signing with children’s book author Leah H. Rogers (WFYP, January 2017). Copies of her new book, The Barn, illustrated by Barry Root will be on hand. This charming, heart warming book is a winner for children who love animals.

Julie Schlack Launch, in Conversation With Jim Glickman

Online Zoom Event

Join Belmont Books for the virtual launch of Julie Schlack's (Nonfiction, June 2013) new book, Burning and Dodging, which she will be discussing with author James Glickman. Julie Wittes Schlack writes and teaches both fiction and creative nonfiction. Her cultural memoir, This All-at-Onceness, was named by Kirkus Reviews as one of the best Indie Nonfiction Books of 2019, […]

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Lesley MFA Winter Reading Series — Kyle Lukoff

Online Zoom Event

Lesley University's All Lesley Reads Visiting Writer for the January 2022 residency will be Kyle Lukoff, author of the National Book Award finalist middle grade novel, Too Bright to See, the Stonewall-award winning picture book, When Aidan Became A Brother, Explosion at the Poem Factory, and many more. While becoming a writer Kyle worked as a bookseller for […]

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