Summer Reading Series: Young Writers Workshop

Coming Soon: The Young Writers Workshop--June 27-June 30, 2007
SIUC's annual creative writing workshop for high school-aged writers.

We're looking forward to the arrival of this year's group of Young Writers!
Here's the schedule of upcoming readings:

Wednesday: June 27: Faculty Reading, Harry T. Moore Auditorium (Faner 1326), 8PM
Pinckney Benedict
Pinckney Benedict joined the faculty at SIUC in 2006. He is the author of two
collections of stories — Town Smokes and The Wrecking Yard — and Dogs of God, a
novel. His short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of magazines
and anthologies, including Esquire, StoryQuarterly, Zoetrope: All-Story, Best New
Stories from South, The O. Henry Award Collection, the Pushcart Prize series, and
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories.

Thursday, June 28, Faner 1005, 4PM
Graduate Student Reading with MFA students Nathan Beck (fiction), Sara Burge
(poetry), Rachna Sheth (fiction) and Renee Evans (fiction)

Thursday, June 28, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud), 8PM
Graduate Student/Faculty Reading with MFA students Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum
(poetry), John Flaherty (fiction), Kerry James Evans (poetry) and YWW Director and
Associate Professor of English Allison Joseph

Friday, June 29, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud.) 4 PM
Graduate Student Reading with MFA students Josh Woods (fiction), Helena Bell
(poetry), Tracy Conerton (poetry), Mary Keck (fiction)

Friday, June 29, Faner 1326 (Moore Aud.) 8PM
Guest Reader: Curtis L. Crisler
Curtis L. Crisler is a graduate of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
and of the MFA Program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. During Curtis's
time in Carbondale, he served as Assistant Director of the Young Writers Workshop.
His first book of poems, Tough Boy Sonatas, was published this year by Front Street
Press. He currently teaches in Fort Wayne, Indiana.