Readings
Kwoya Fagin Maples Reading
Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesKwoya Fagin Maples is a writer from Charleston, S.C. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Alabama and is a graduate Cave Canem Fellow and a Homeschool Lambda Literary Fellow. In addition to a chapbook publication by Finishing Line Press entitled Something of Yours (2010) her work is published in several…
Michael Kardos Reading and Book Signing
Michael Kardos is the author of the novels Bluff, Before He Finds Her, and The Three-Day Affair, an Esquire best book of 2012, as well as the story collection One Last Good Time, which won the Mississippi Institute of Arts & Letters Award for fiction, and the textbook The Art and Craft of Fiction: A Writer’s Guide. His short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Harvard…
[Name This] Open Mic Night
UPerk Coffee Shop , United StatesAn open mic series for UA undergraduates only. Sign up starts at 6PM. Come early for free food and drinks! Sponsored by the Undergraduate Program in Creative Writing.
MFA Reading Series: Pete Beatty, Anna McConnell, Sophie Strohmeier
Druid City Brewing Company , United StatesPete Beatty, Anna McConnell, and Sophie Strohmeier, all fourth-year MFA candidates in Creative Writing, will read from their work at Druid City Brewing Company.
Poetry Marathon
Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesPoetry Marathon Reading in English, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, Russian, Thai, French… to celebrate National Poetry Month. Bring a poem you like, or bring yourself. All are welcome.
An Evening with David Shields
Dinah Washington Cultural Arts Center 620 Greensboro Ave, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesDavid Shields is the internationally bestselling author of twenty books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications), The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller), Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award), and Other People: Takes…
Pure Products Art Night Reading
Monarch Espresso Bar 714 22nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United StatesPlease join us for our final Art Night reading of the semester featuring UA Creative Writing professor and acclaimed writer Michael Martone, English Department chair and poet Joel Brouwer, MFA Candidate Joshua Dugat, and visiting poet and professor of English at Bentley University, Ralph Pennel. We're thrilled to wrap up our final reading of the semester in…
Pure Products Reading & Lecture Series
Please join us for our first Pure Products reading of the semester featuring UA faculty members Yolanda Manora and Jessica Kidd, MFA Candidate Jeremy Burke, and undergraduate Creative Writing student Aundralesha Wordlow.
[Name This] Open Mic Series [ONLINE Edition!]
Dear Undergraduate Writers, Please join your fellow poets and storytellers at our first Open Mic night of the semester! We'll kick things off on Zoom at 7:00 PM with a sign-up in the Chat feature, and we will begin the reading at 7:15. Come share your amazing poems, stories, anecdotes, love letters, breakup letters, flash fiction, and song lyrics that you have been working on over the pandemic! Or just come by to listen and meet other writers at UA. It'll be fun and [...]
[Name This] Open Mic Series [ONLINE Edition!]
Are you a current student at UA? Do you love to write? Then please join your fellow poets and storytellers at our second Open Mic night of the semester! We'll kick things off on Zoom at 7:00 PM with a sign-up in the Chat feature, and we will begin the reading at 7:15. Come share your amazing poems, stories, anecdotes, love letters, breakup letters, flash fiction, and song lyrics that you have been working on over the pandemic! Or just come by to listen [...]