WriterSpeak
WriterSpeak has been bringing nationally recognized poets and writers to Cal Poly since 1985. Some of the visitors we've had over the past decade include: James Salter, Richard Ford, T.C. Boyle, Tobias Wolff, Joy Williams, David Foster Wallace, Dave Eggers, David Sedaris, Carolyn Forche, George Saunders, Charles Baxter, Rodney Jones, Eavan Boland, Denis Johnson, Philip Levine, Art Spiegelman, Sarah Vowell, Stanley Plumly, David Wong Louie, Dan Chaon, Marisa Silver, Heather McHugh, Linda Bierds, B.H. Fairchild, C.G. Hanzlicekm, Peter Everwine, Donald Revell, Heidi Julavits, Ben Marcus, and Greil Marcus.
Please join us for the final Writerspeak event of the year—a showcase reading with novelist Tracy Daugherty and short story writer Marjorie Sandor. Between them, they have published over a dozen books. Their work has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, and Best American Short Stories. They currently teach at three (yes, three!) MFA programs. This reading promises to be one of the highlights of the academic year.
Monday, May 19, 7pm
Building 8, Room 123
Free—Open to the Public
Tracy Daugherty is the author of the short story collection, Late in the Standoff, as well as a collection of personal essays, and seven books of fiction, including his most recent novel, Axeman’s Jazz. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Hiding Man, his biography of Donald Barthelme, is forthcoming from St. Martin's Press. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Oregon State University and is a faculty member for the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina.
Marjorie Sandor's short fiction has been twice anthologized in Best American Short Stories, as well as The Pushcart Prize XIII and The Best of Beacon 1999, and has appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, The Southern Review, The New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. Awards include a 1998 Rona Jaffe Foundation Award for Fiction, and the 2000 Oregon Book Award for literary non-fiction. She is the author of three books, most recently the short story collection, Portrait of My Mother Who Posed Nude in Wartime and a collection of personal essays, The Night Gardener: A Search for Home. She teaches at Oregon State University and is a faculty member for the MFA program at Pacific Lutheran University in Washington.
Writerspeak is supported by generous funding from the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English and Cal Poly.
For information about this year's program, contact Todd Pierce at 756-2585.