Young Writers Workshop 2010 is almost here!

Every June, the SIUC Creative Writing Program plays host to 30 high-school age creative writers for several days. The young writers become part of our community of writers here in Carbondale, taking classes and attending readings. This year, we have a bevy of readings going on--anyone can come to these events!

YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP 2010 READING SERIES
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE
ALL READINGS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

You are cordially invited to attend any or all of the readings below.

JUNE 22, 2010:
SIUC FACULTY READING: PINCKNEY BENEDICT
Faner 1326, (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
SIUC fiction faculty member Pinckney Benedict will debut his new fiction collection, Miracle Boy and Other Stories

JUNE 23, 2010:
SIUC GRADUATE CREATIVE WRITERS READING:
Mark Brewin, Lane Kareska, Melissa Scholes Young and Shawn Mitchell
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM

VISITING WRITER READING: CURTIS L. CRISLER, POET
Faner Hall 1326, (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8PM
Curtis L. Crisler, a graduate of the SIUC MFA Program and former YWW staff member, is the author of three books of poetry: Pulling Scabs (Willow Books; Aquarius Press), Spill (the 2008 Keyhole Chapbook Award winner at Keyhole Press), and Tough Boy Sonatas (Wordsong; Boyds Mills Press). His YA mixed-genre novel Dreamist is forthcoming. Crisler and Kevin McKelvey are working on a book of poems tentatively titled Indiana Nocturnes: Our Rural and Urban Patchwork.

JUNE 24, 2010:
SIUC GRADUATE CREATIVE WRITERS READING:
John Owen, Nick Ostdick and Leslie Adams
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM

VISITING WRITER READING: MELANIE DUSSEAU, POET
Faner Hall 1326, (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
Born in Toledo, Ohio, Melanie Dusseau received a BA from Ohio University, an MA from The University of Toledo, and an MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Her poems have appeared in Black Warrior Review, River Styx, and Alaska Quarterly Review, among other journals. The Body Tries Again (Word Press) is her first collection of poems.

JUNE 25, 2010:
SIUC GRADUATE CREATIVE WRITERS READING:
Brenna Lemieux, Katie Zapoluch, Sarah-McCartt-Jackson and Brooks Rexroat
Faner Hall 1005, 4-5 PM

VISITING WRITER/FACULTY READING: KEVIN MCKELVEY, POET,
ALLISON JOSEPH, YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP DIRECTOR
Faner Hall 1326 (Harry T. Moore Auditorium), 8 PM
Kevin McKelvey, a graduate of the SIUC MFA Program and former YWW instructor, teaches writing and publishing at the University of Indianapolis. McKelvey’s first book of poems, a chapbook entitled Dream Wilderness, was published by Finishing Line Press.

JUNE 26, 2010:
YOUNG WRITERS WORKSHOP PARTICIPANT READING
Cisne Auditorium, Pulliam Hall 34, 1:30 PM