Twelve days of readings and lectures open with poet Claudia Emerson
Celebrating its 25th summer session, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference will run from Tuesday, July 22, through Saturday, Aug. 2, and feature readings, panels and lectures by distinguished faculty and nationally recognized editors, publishers and literary agents.
The conference will begin with a reading by poet Claudia Emerson at 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, July 22. All readings and lectures are free, open to the public and held on the Sewanee campus in the Mary Sue Cushman Room of the Bairnwick Women’s Center.
Emerson was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her book “Late Wife: Poems.” She is also the author of the poetry collections “Pharaoh, Pharaoh Pinion,” “An Elegy,” “Figure Studies,” “Secure the Shadow” and a forthcoming collection, “The Opposite House.” Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, the Southern Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, New England Review and other journals. Emerson is the recipient of a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, the Donald Justice Award for Poetry from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission for the Arts. She is a professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Other featured readings will be presented by National Book Award winners John Casey (4:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 23) and Alice McDermott (4:15 p.m., Friday, July 25); Pulitzer Prize finalist Christine Schutt (8:15 p.m., Thursday, July 24); and Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award Winner Diane Johnson (4:15 p.m., Tuesday, July 29).
Additional readings feature award-winning poets B.H. Fairchild (8:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 23), Charles Martin (4:15 p.m., Thursday, July 24), A.E. Stallings (8:15 p.m., Friday, July 25), William Logan (8:15 p.m., Sunday, July 27), Maurice Manning (8:15 p.m., Monday, July 28), Mary Jo Salter (4:15 p.m., Thursday, July 31), Debora Greger (4:15 p.m., Friday, Aug. 1), and founder of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Wyatt Prunty (4:15 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2);
Best-selling and critically acclaimed fiction writers Adrianne Harun (4:15 p.m., Saturday, July 26) Steve Yarbrough (8:15 p.m., Saturday, July 26), Randall Kenan (4:15 p.m., Monday, July 28) Allen Wier (4:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 30), Tony Earley (8:15 p.m., Wednesday, July 30) Margot Livesey (8:15 p.m., Friday, Aug. 1) Vice-Chancellor of the Fellowship of Southern Writers Jill McCorkle (8:15 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 2); and
Acclaimed playwrights Daisy Foote (8:15 p.m., Tuesday, July 29) and Dan O’Brien (8:15 p.m., Thursday, July 31).
Editors from Algonquin Books, the American Scholar, Blackbird, Copper Canyon Press, Grove/Atlantic, Knopf, LSU Press, Measure, the Missouri Review, New Directions, Northwestern University Press, the Oxford American, Poetry and the Weekly Standard will discuss publishing. Agents from Aitken Alexander Associates, Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Georges Borchardt Literary Agency, Folio Literary Management, McCormick & Williams, and Renée Zuckerbrot Literary Agency will also discuss their work. A complete Conference schedule can be found on page 11 of this week’s Messenger, or online at <www.sewaneewriters.org/conference/schedule>. Authors’ books are available at the University Book and Supply Store.
Supported by the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund established through the estate of the late Tennessee Williams, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference offers instruction and criticism to writers through a series of workshops, readings and craft lectures in poetry, fiction and playwriting.
Lectures and readings will be held in the Mary Sue Cushman Room of the Bairnwick Women’s Center on Mississippi Avenue, one block south of University Avenue.
Admission to all public events is free, but space may be limited.
For more information, call 598-1654 or visit the Sewanee Writers’ Conference website at <www.sewaneewriters.org>.
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