Emerging Scholars Talk

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Join us for Mark Hulse's talk, "New Approaches to the Hamlet Q1 Conundrum: Bibliographic, Intertextual, and Chronological Perspectives."

Doug Nichol Masterclass

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Discussion of writing craft with Doug Nichol. 

Free

Sloan Harris, ICM Literary Agent, Q&A

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Q&A session with Sloan Harris about literary agents and publishing. 

Free and Open to the Public

Pure Products Art Night Reading

Monarch Espresso Bar 714 22nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Please join us for our first Art Night reading of the semester featuring UA faculty members Brian Whalen and Christopher Love, MFA Candidate Chase Burke, and undergraduate Creative Writing student Lauren Zecha. We're thrilled to return to the back patio of Monarch Espresso Bar, which features the best coffee in town and a full bar. There…

free

Conversation with Brian Teare

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Brian Teare is the author of five critically acclaimed books, most recently Companion Grasses, which was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, and The Empty Form Goes All the Way to Heaven. His sixth book, Doomstead Days, will be out from Nightboat Books in 2019. His honors include a Lambda Literary Award and fellowships from the NEA, the Pew Foundation,…

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Conversation with Daniel Black

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Dr. Daniel Black is a renowned, award-winning novelist who hails from rural Arkansas. His works include THEY TELL ME OF A HOME, THE SACRED PLACE, PERFECT PEACE, TWELVE GATES TO THE CITY, and now THE COMING and LISTEN TO THE LAMBS. Dr. Black has been nominated for The Townsend Literary Prize three times, The Ernest J. Gaines Award, the Ferro-Grumbley Literary Prize, the Lambda Literary Award, and…

Free and open to the public

Southern Writers on Southern Writing

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

Hybrid writer Selah Satterstrom, novelist Daniel Black, and poet Brian Teare will explore the South as a site of literary inspiration and obsession.  About Selah Satterstrom:  Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution, all published by Coffee House Press. Her book of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory…

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Conversation with Selah Saterstrom

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Selah Saterstrom is the author of the novels Slab, The Meat and Spirit Plan, and The Pink Institution, all published by Coffee House Press. Her book of essays, Ideal Suggestions: Essays in Divinatory Poetics won the Essay Press Book Prize and was published last fall. She teaches and lectures across the United States and abroad, and…

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Anti-Valentine's Day Open Mic

Monarch Espresso Bar 714 22nd Avenue, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Come out to our Anti-Valentine's Day Open Mic! Come share your anti-love letters, break-up odes, syllogisms to why love stinks, poetry abundant with everything but love,  those 5-minute stories that are flushed with and proliferate the joys of being single. Come celebrate with us! This event will be at Monarch Espresso Bar, Feb-14th, starting at 7pm.= Like the title says, it's…

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Kwoya Fagin Maples Masterclass

Morgan Hall 301 Morgan Hall, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Kwoya 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…

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