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Megha Majumdar, Fiction Reading – January 26, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Jan. 5, 2023—♦ January 26, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Megha Majumdar, fiction Megha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestseller and Editors’ Choice A Burning, which was also selected as one of Margaret Atwood’s “Quarantine Reads,” a Barnes and Noble Discover Pick, and a Book of the Month Pick. She was born and raised in Kolkata,...
Listen to VU Professor Allison Schachter Discuss Yiddish Culture on Public Radio
Nov. 17, 2022—Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and English, appeared on the Nov. 14 broadcast of Cincinnati Edition to discuss a recent surge in interest in Yiddish language and culture. Listen to the broadcast by clicking here.
Uwem Akpan, Fiction Reading – November 10, 7 PM in Buttrick 101
Nov. 4, 2022—♦November 10, 7 PM in Buttrick 101: Uwem Akpan, fiction Uwen Akpan is the author of the novel New York, My Village. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, O, The Oprah Magazine, Hekima Review, and The Nigerian Guardian. His first book, Say You’re One of Them, an Oprah Book Club selection, received the...
Visiting Writer Series (10/27) @ 7 PM in Buttrick 101: Michael Collier, poetry
Oct. 20, 2022—♦October 27, 7 PM in Buttrick 101: Michael Collier, poetry Michael Collier has authored, edited, or translated eleven books. He has received Guggenheim and Thomas Watson fellowships, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, a “Discovery”/The Nation Award, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award from the Poetry Society of America, and an Award in Literature...
Reading by Laura van den Berg: 9/29/22, 7 PM @ The Vanderbilt Bookstore
Sep. 26, 2022—The Gertrude C. and Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series will be hosting a reading by Laura van den Berg on September 29, 7 PM at The Vanderbilt Bookstore. The event is open to the public. Laura van den Berg is the author of five works of fiction, including The Third Hotel, a finalist for the...
Sept. 15, 2022, Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Reading: Aria Aber, poetry reading @ 7 PM in Buttrick Hall 101
Sep. 9, 2022—Author Aria Aber will be featured in Vanderbilt Creative Writing’s next Gertrude C. & Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series event. Aber’s debut book Hard Damage won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are forthcoming or have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, Kenyon Review and elsewhere. A graduate of the...
This Year’s Academy of American Poets Prize Winner and Honorable Mentions
May. 9, 2022—2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest Winner and Honorable Mentions Congratulations to this year’s winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest, Sydney Mayes, and to the students receiving honorable mentions for their work, Carson Colenbaugh and Ajla Dizdarevic. Winner: Sydney Mayes, GS, MFA, for “the walker system” Honorable Mentions:...
MFA Third-Year Reading – Thursday April 28 at 7PM
Apr. 26, 2022—Come support the third-year MFA students at the student reading, this Thursday, April 28 at 7 PM in the Black Cultural Center Auditorium. This year’s reading will feature work by: Lara Casey, Hayes Cooper, Jessica Lee, Yi Jiang, Kiyoko Reidy, and Pallavi Wakharkar. Click here for the downloadable flyer.
Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers
Apr. 16, 2022—The English department at Vanderbilt University is happy to announce “Embody and Catalyze: A Joyful Celebration of Hortense Spillers”! The conference will honor the career and contributions of Hortense Spillers, the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor and Distinguished Research Professor (Emerita) and will take place on Thursday May 19th and Friday May 20th, 2022. Registration required. Please...
“A Life’s Work” – See Profile of Kate Daniels in Vanderbilt Magazine
Apr. 15, 2022—Click here to see the wonderful profile in this month’s Vanderbilt Magazine of Kate Daniels, Edwin Mims Professor of English (Emerita), and the foundational work she’s done for the MFA in creative writing program during her tenure at Vanderbilt University.