An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Celebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Free

An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Celebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Free

An Evening with Carmen Maria Machado

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Celebrated writer Carmen Maria Machado will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. Machado’s writing defies and blends genres such as surrealism, fantasy, and horror to create writing that is so palpable it seems alive. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Free

An Evening with Jesmyn Ward

Resource Boxes

The Department of English’s Creative Writing Program and UA’s Honors College are thrilled to welcome two-time National Book Award–winning novelist Jesmyn Ward to campus to read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing immediately following the reading.

An Evening with Garth Greenwell

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Progam is excited to host celebrated writer Garth Greenwell, who will read a selection of his work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Thursday, February 23 at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening! Copies of his books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public. Garth Greenwell is the author of What Belongs to You, which won the British Book Award [...]

An Evening with Alabama Poet Laureate Ashley M. Jones

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Program is excited to host the Poet Laureate of Alabama, Ashley M. Jones, who will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening! Copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing. This event is free and open to the public. Ashley M. Jones is Poet Laureate of the state of [...]

An Evening with Sarah Giragosian

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Program is excited to host poet Sarah Giragosian, who will read a selection of her work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Wednesday, November 29th at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening, and arrive early for refreshments and mingling! This event is free and open to the public. Sarah Giragosian is the author of the poetry collections Queer Fish, a winner of the American Poetry Journal Book Prize, and The [...]

Masterclass with Poet and Memoirist Emma Bolden

Camellia Room, Gorgas Library 711 Capstone Drive, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Progam welcomes poet and memoirist Emma Bolden, who will offer a free one-hour masterclass on the craft of writing on Tuesday, February 6 at 2 p.m. in the Camellia Room of Gorgas Library. This event is free and open to the public. EMMA BOLDEN is the author of House Is an Enigma, medi(t)ations, and Maleficae. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literary Fellowship.

Poetically Speaking

Gorgas Library Yellowhammer Room , United States

Poetically Speaking is a new open mic/writing workshop dedicated to mental health. Poet Sara Pirkle will be featured on this edition.

An Evening with Hugh Sheehy

Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

UA English’s Creative Writing Progam is excited to host fiction writer Hugh Sheehy, who will read a selection of his work and answer audience questions. Please join us at the Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center on Monday, March 25 at 7 p.m. for a wonderful evening, and arrive early (6:30 p.m.) for refreshments and mingling! This event is free and open to the public. HUGH SHEEHY is the author of The Invisibles, winner of the 2014 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction [...]