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WRITERS PSTR FALL2015 R5_Layout 1 2/10/15 12:02 PM Page 1 Stony Brook Southampton MFA in Creative Writing & Literature Presents Writers SPEAK WEDNESDAYS SPRING 2015 PM FEBRUARY 25 MARCH 4 7MARCH 11 JESSICA SOFFER FACULTY READING PUBLISHING: WHAT’S NEW IN Jessica Soffer’s 2013 Ursula Hegi, Susie Merrell, SELF-PUBLISHING novel, Tomorrow There Roger Rosenblatt, Julie Will Be Apricots, Sheehan and Lou Ann Walker & SMALL PRESSES (Houghton Mifflin will read for you! Harcourt), has been With ... published in eight countries. She teaches fiction at Connecticut College. SANDE BORITZ BERGER, who holds an APRIL 1 APRIL 15 MFA from Stony Brook ALICE FULTON PATRICIA MCCORMICK Southampton, & MITCHELL KRIEGMAN was awarded The Deborah Alice Fulton, awarded a Hecht Memorial 2011 American Patricia McCormick is a two-time prize for fiction. Academy of Arts and National Book Award Finalist whose Her debut novel, The Sweetness, Letters Award in books include Cut, SOLD, and Never published by She Writes Press, was a Literature, has Fall Down. Recently she worked with semi-finalist in Amazon’s received a MacArthur, Malala Yousafzai on the young Breakthrough Novel Awards. a Guggenheim, and an readers' edition of I am Malala, the NEA grant. Her work has been included in story of the Pakistani girl shot by the Taliban for standing up for her right to an The Penguin Anthology of Twentieth-Century education. CÉLINE American Poetry; five editions of The Best KEATING’s American Poetry series; and the 10th Mitchell Kriegman’s novel, Being Audrey Hepburn, was recently published by St. Martin’s Griffin. A winner of four Emmys and the Directors’ Guild Award, he new novel, Anniversary edition and the 25th Play for Me, Anniversary edition (forthcoming) of created the groundbreaking television series Clarissa Explains It All and Bear in the Big Blue House. He was a staff writer and filmmaker for Saturday Night Live. will be The Best of the Best American Poetry. published by She Writes Press this Spring. Her APRIL 22 APRIL 29 debut novel, Layla, was ROXANA DANIEL MENAKER published by Plain View Press. ROBINSON IN CONVERSATION WITH LAURA LIPPMAN Roxana Robinson is JUDY L. the author of five Laura Lippman is the author of MANDEL novels, including six New York Times bestselling is the award- Sparta, winner of the novels, including the award- Marine Corps’ James winning author winning “accidental PI” Tess of Replacement Webb Award for Monaghan series: What the Distinguished Fiction. Robinson has written Child – a Dead Know, Life Sentences, and I’d Know You Anywhere. Her books Memoir, Seal three collections of short stories, as well as have won Edgars and Agathas. an award-winning biography, Georgia Press, 2013. O’Keeffe: A Life. Novelist and memoirist Daniel Menaker is a former The New Yorker and Random House editor; and the author most recently of My Mistake. KAMY MAY 6 WICOFF is the MFA READING bestselling author of I Do Readings by but I Don’t: Why tommorow’s the Way We Marry Matters. star writers! Kamy Wicoff is the co- founder of SheWrites.com and of She Writes Press. Receptions begin at 6:30 pm • Readings begin at 7:00 pm in the Radio Lounge 2nd floor of Chancellors Hall, 239 Montauk Highway, Southampton, New York Visit us on Facebook at Writers Speak Wednesdays. Follow us on Twitter@WritersSpeakWed Supported by a generous grant from Ellen Hanson & Richard Perlman • www.stonyStobny Brrook Soouthkam.pteon ids anu equ/al ompportfunaity educat6or a3nd e1mplo-y6er. 32-5028.