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West Virginia Wesleyan Visiting Writers Series

WVHC Event

Location/County: Buckhannon, Upshur
July 06, 2016 — July 07, 2016

Wesleyan’s Visiting Writers Series brings writers Sarah Einstein and Mary Carroll-Hackett to campus for an evening reading for MFA students and the general public. Einstein is the author of Mot: A Memoir and numerous essays and short stories. Her work has been awarded a Pushcart Prize, a Best of the Net, and the AWP Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Carroll-Hackett is the author of six titles: The Real Politics of Lipstick (Slipstream Press 2010), Animal Soul (Kattywompus Press 2013), If We Could Know Our Bones (A-Minor Press 2014), The Night I Heard Everything (FutureCycle Press 2015), Trailer Park Oracle (Kelsey Books 2016), and most recently, A Little Blood, A Little Rain (FutureCycle Press 2016). She teaches Creative Writing at Longwood University in Virginia.

July 6 and 7 at Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library – Upshur Reading Room

http://wvhumanities.org/event/event-2511/

This project is funded in part by a West Virginia Humanities Council grant.