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Emerging Writers Reading Series 2014-15 The Program in Creative Writing presents The Program in Creative Writing presents emerging writers reading series 2014-15 friday, March 27 Darcey Steinke(fiction) September 19 February 20 with: Porochista Khakpour (fiction) Marie Howe (poetry) Tom Markham with: with: Shannon McGue Joan Bedinger Filipa Ioannou Jane Pritchard Chester Dubov Cosette Gonzales David White Ben Goldman Evan Coles Milena Phan Nonny Okwelogu Yessica Martinez October 10 March 27 Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry) Darcey Steinke (fiction) with: with: Aron Wander Jane Pritchard 2014-2015 Allison Somers Tom Markham Anya Lewis-Meeks Shannon McGue David White The Emerging Writers November 14 April 24 Reading Series at FRIDAYS • 6 p.m. Justin Torres (fiction) C.A. Conrad & Labyrinth Books Labyrinth Bookstore with: Dorothea Lasky (poetry) showcases senior thesis 122 Nassau street Sam Butler with: free and open to the public. Jared Garland Susannah Sharpless students of the Program Ava Geyer Amanda Devine in Creative Writing and Cameron Langford Emily McDonald features established Isabelle Laurenzi Vivian Ludford writers as special guests. fridays • 6 p.m. at labyrinth books, 122 nassau street free and open to the public. for more about the program in creative writing visit arts.princeton.edu for more about the program in creative writing visit arts.princeton.edu Darcey Steinke Student Writers Darcey Steinke is the author The student writers, who are pursuing a certificate in Creative of Sister Golden Hair, chosen Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read by Flavorwire as one of the from their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working Best Independent Fiction on a novel, screenplay, or collection of short stories as part and Poetry Books of 2014. of a creative thesis for their certificate with a member of the Creative Writing faculty. Her other novels include Milk (2005); Jesus Saves (1997); Suicide Blonde (1992); and Tom Markham is a senior English concentrator from Nashville, Tennessee. His main area of study includes the Up Through the Water (1989), works of such Southern writers as William Faulkner and a New York Times Notable Walker Percy. His thesis, a novel entitled Ten Thousand Book. Her memoir Easter Whispers, is about a compulsive eavesdropper struggling Everywhere (2007) was also to make sense of the world. His advisors are Edmund White named a New York Times and Sheila Kohler. Notable Book. Along with Rick Moody, she edited Joyful Shannon McGue is concentrating in Ecology and Noise: The New Testament Evolutionary Biology and pursuing a certificate in Global Revisited (1997), a collection Health and Health Policy. She grew up in Indiana and Photo by Jenny Gorman by Photo of essays offering personal Charleston, South Carolina. Her thesis is a collection of interpretations of modern Christianity. Her books have been stories exploring the wide variety of relationships that can translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in shape us. She is advised by Darcey Steinke and Fiona Maazel. The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian. Jane Pritchard is from Albany, New York. She is an English Her web story “Blindspot” was included as part of the 2000 concentrator with a certificate in filmmaking. Her thesis is a Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner novel. She is advised by Susan Choi and Colson Whitehead. Fellow, and she was also a Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi. Steinke has taught creative writing at the Columbia David White is an architecture major from Kansas City. University School of the Arts, Barnard, The American University of Christina Lazaridi and Lawrence Konner are advising his screenwriting project. The script, set in the near future, Paris, and at Princeton University. follows a 16 year-old boy as he fights to save his sister from a band of murderous robots. ;). The Emerging Writers Reading Series, hosted by the seniors in the Program, is intended to present a public showcase for the work of their peers and to invite professional writers by whom the students have been inspired..
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