CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAM & CONVOCATION EVENT - Fall 2014   An Evening with Ishmael Beah Author of A Long Way Gone and Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Tuesday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. – Finney Chapel Part of Oberlin College’s Convocation Series

****************************************************************** Shane McCrae Poetry Reading Weds, Sept. 10, 7:00 p.m. – Hallock Aud. (AJ Lewis Center) Shane McCrae has written four full-length books of poems—Mule; finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a PEN Center USA Literary Award, Blood, Forgiveness Forgiveness and The Animal Too Big to Kill; winner of the 2014 Lexi Rudnitsky/Editor’s ChoiceAward—and three chapbooks. He begins teaching at Oberlin in Fall 2014

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Sara Schaff and Benjamin Landry Fiction and Poetry Readings Wednesday, September 24, 7:00 p.m. Location: Hallock Aud. (AJ Lewis Center) Sara Schaff’s writing has appeared in Tampa Review, The Rumpus, Carve Magazine, and elsewhere. Her short story collection, When I Was Young and Swam to Cuba, was one of five finalists for the Iowa Short Fiction and John Simmons Short Fiction Awards.

Benjamin Landry is the author of Particle and Wave (University of Chicago Press, 2014) and his work has appeared in Kenyon Review Online and Guernica, among other journals.

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Gillian Conoley Poetry Reading Reading: Wednesday, October 8 – 5:00 p.m. Wilder 101 Translating Henri Michaux – October 9, 9:30 a.m., Dye Lecture Hall in Science Center

Gillian Conoley is the author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has been anthologized widely, most recently in Norton’s American Hybrid, Counterpath’s Postmodern Lyricisms, Mondadori’s Nuova Poesia Americana (Italian), and Best American Poetry. Conoley's poetry has appeared in Conjunctions, New American Writing, American Poetry Review, The Canary, A Public Space, Carnet de Rouge, Jacket, Or, Fence, Verse, Ironwood, jubilat, Zyzzyva, Ploughshares, the Denver Quarterly, the Missouri Review and other publications. A recipient of the Jerome J. Seshtack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review, as well as several Pushcart Prizes.

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READINGS CONTINUED ON BACK  OLGA BROUMAS In Residence November 2 - 5 Workshop: Movement and Meditation in the Writing Process – Nov. 5, 4:30 p.m., Wilder 112 Poetry Reading: November 5, 7:00 p.m. in Craig (Science Center) Lecture: Translating Odysseas Elytis -- November 6, 9:30 a.m., Dye Lecture Hall in Science Center

Born and raised in Greece, Olga Broumas secured a fellowship to study in the United States. She later went on to earn a Master's degree in creative writing from the University of Oregon. Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, contains erotic poems toward her women lovers. Broumas was selected for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1977. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

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Jacob Bacharach (’03) and Edan Lepucki (’02) Fiction Readings Thursday, November 13, 7:00 p.m. in Craig (Science Center) Jacob Bacharach's début novel, The Bend of the World (Liveright/W.W. Norton) appeared in the spring of 2014. He has a BA in creative writing and English from Oberlin College and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. Jacob lives in Pittsburgh, where in addition to writing, he manages the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts.

Edan Lepucki is the author of the novella If You're Not Yet Like Me and the New York Times bestselling novel, California. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and the Iowa Writers' Workshops, and her short fiction has been published in McSweeney's and Narrative Magazine, among other publications.

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