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Center For Literary Arts Graduate Student Information Session and Lunch
Center for the Literary Arts Creative Practice Workshop Information Session
Deadline for Spring 2024 Creative Practice Workshop Applications
Aaron Coleman Reading
Aaron Coleman (MFA ’15, PhD ’21), whose papers and other materials are now part of the Modern Literature Collection, will read his poetry and translations.
Aaron Coleman in Conversation with Mary Jo Bang
Aaron Coleman (MFA ’15, PhD ’21), whose papers and other materials are now part of the Modern Literature Collection, will be in conversation with English professor and poet Mary Jo Bang, whose papers are also part of the Modern Literature Collection.
Tere Dávila in Discussion with Zorimar Rivera Montes
Join the University Libraries for a discussion between Puerto Rican author Tere Dávila and Zorimar Rivera Montes, Assistant Professor of Latinx Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. Dávila and Rivera Montes will talk about Dávila’s literary fiction and its relationship to Puerto Rican culture and contemporary global issues.
Tere Dávila Reading
Join us for an evening of fiction in translation with Puerto Rican author Tere Dávila and translator Rebecca Hanssens-Reed. Hanssens-Reed’s translation of Dávila’s “Mercedes’s Special Talent” won a 2022 O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction.
Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series: Living as a Writer
Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series: Author Anna Moschovakis Reading & Talk with Literary Agent Akin Akinwumi
Guggenheim Fellowship Information Session
International Writers Series: Efe Duyan
Efe Duyan (‘The Behavior of Words’) with Derick Mattern
Center for the Literary Arts Speaker Series: Mary-Alice Daniel
Mary-Alice Daniel is the Center for the Literary Arts' inaugural Visiting Writer in Residence. Join us for a reception, followed by readings from her celebrated, genre-spanning works – including new, unpublished poems and selections from secret projects.
Bitter Fruit: A Roundtable on Drama in Translation
A scholarly roundtable featuring playwright Héctor Levy-Daniel (zoomed in from Argentina), translator Philip Boehm (artistic director of Upstream Theatre), Virginia Braxs (faculty, Washington University), and Gad Guterman (faculty, Webster University), with interpretation by Sara Brenes Akerman (graduate student, Washington University in St. Louis)
Eugene O'Neill Symposium
Join us for a one-day symposium to officially open the Harley Hammerman Collection on Eugene O’Neill. All Friday events are free and open to the public, but registration is requested.
¿Quién soy? Y ¿Quiénes somos?: A Panel Discussion with Latine Poets
Reading & Talk with Simone White
Organized in conjunction with "Adam Pendleton: To Divide By," join us for a reading by poet Simone White and a conversation on creative practice in relation to the role of language and poetry in Adam Pendleton’s work.
WashU Book Arts Workshop with Work/Play
Dr. Eve Ewing Plenary Address, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Midwest Regional Conference
Fulbright Creative and Performing Arts Grant Info Session
Writing and Embodied Creativity
A Talk with 2023 Marcus Artist-in-Residence, Choreographer Leslie Cuyjet
Conference and round-table with author Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Goncourt Prize 2021
Creative Practice Workshop Info Session
Learn more about the Center for the Literary Arts' Creative Practice Workshop from initiative co-director Ignacio Infante, including how to apply. The session will take place Friday, November 3 at noon.
International Writers Series: Christopher Merrill
Renowned poet, essayist, and translator Christopher Merrill will join the University Libraries for a reading and discussion of his work, including his most recently published work On the Road to Lviv, a book-length poem that bears witness to the war in Ukraine.