For those of you looking for literary inspiration in the dark days of January, be sure to check out the Solstice MFA Winter reading series at Pine Manor College, which is free and open to the public!
THE SOLSTICE MFA IN CREATIVE WRITING OF PINE MANOR COLLEGE
ANNOUNCES ITS JANUARY READING SERIES
[Chestnut Hill, MA, November, 2008] The Solstice MFA Program announces
its Winter Reading Series, taking place January 2-9 in the Founder’s
Room of Pine Manor College, located at 400 Heath Street in Chestnut
Hill. Authors’ books will be available after all readings; cash-bar
receptions will follow the readings on January 7 and 9. *Plenty of free
parking!
Friday, January 2 at 7:30 p.m. Amy Hoffman & Dzvinia Orlowsky
Amy Hoffman (author of the memoirs Hospital Time and An Army of
Ex-Lovers) & Dzvinia Orlowsky (author of four poetry collections, most
recently Convertible Night, Flurry of Stones).
Saturday, January 3 at 7:30 p.m. Meg Kearney & Laura Williams McCaffrey
Director and poet Meg Kearney (author of An Unkindness of Ravens and The
Secret of Me) & Laura Williams McCaffrey (author of Alia Waking and
Water Shaper).
Sunday, January 4 at 7:30 p.m. Tanya Whiton & Sandra Scofield
Program Administrator and fiction writer Tanya Whiton & Sandra Scofield
(National Book Award Finalist for Beyond Deserving; author of seven
novels, a memoir, and a craft book).
Monday, January 5 from 4:30-5:30 p.m. Graduating Student Readings
Tuesday, January 6 at 7:30 p.m. Ray Gonzalez & An Na
Ray Gonzalez (author more than 15 books, including The Underground
Heart: A Return to a Hidden Landscape) & An Na (author of The Fold; Wait
For Me; and A Step From Heaven).
Wednesday, January 7 at 7:30 p.m. Terrance Hayes & Naomi Shihab Nye
Terrance Hayes (author of Hip Logic, Muscular Music, and Wind in a Box)
& Special Guest Naomi Shihab Nye (author and/or editor of more than 20
volumes, including the National Book Award Finalist 19 Varieties of
Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East and the recent Honeybee).
Thursday, January 8 from 4:45-5:45p.m. Graduating Student Readings
Thursday, January 8 at 7:30 p.m. Laban Carrick Hill & Venise Berry
Laban Carrick Hill (author of America Dreaming: How Youth Changed
America in the 60s) & Venise Berry (author of four novels, including the
forthcoming Pockets of Sanity).
Friday, January 9 at 7:30 p.m. Steven Huff & Randall Kenan
Steven Huff (author of two poetry collections and the forthcoming short
fictions, A Pig in Paris) & Randall Kenan (author of several books of
fiction and nonfiction, including Walking on Water: Black American Lives
at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century and The Fire This Time).
Directions to Pine Manor College, complete bios of our authors, and more
information about the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program can be
found at www.pmc.edu/mfa.