Jennifer Horne Masterclass

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

I’m a writer, editor, and teacher, and I enjoy connecting with readers and other writers. On November 1, 2017, I was commissioned Alabama's Poet Laureate, for a four-year term. I grew up in Arkansas and have lived for many years in Alabama, although I’ve also lived abroad, in England and Romania, and have traveled extensively…

Free and open to the public

Kwoya Fagin Maples Reading

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, 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…

Free and open to the public

The Conversation: Readings

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Readings by The Conversation participants. 

Free

The Conversation: Craft Talks

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Discussions of writing craft. 

Free

The Road South: An Evening with B.J. Hollars

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Join the First-Year Writing Program as we present "The Road South: An Evening with B.J. Hollars" on Monday, October 15 from 6-7 p.m. in Gorgas Library 205.  The author will read from his newest book and offer a craft talk on writing and researching living history.  Free and open to the public.

Free

Akhil Sharma Fiction Reading

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Akhil Sharma is the award winning author of the novels Family Life and An Obedient Father. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, and Best American Short Stories.

Free and Open to the Public

Meg Day Poetry Reading and Book Signing

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

Meg Day is the 2015-2016 recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a 2013 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and the author of Last Psalm at Sea Level (Barrow Street 2014), winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize and the Publishing Triangle’s Audre Lorde Award, and a finalist for the 2016 Kate…

Free and Open to the Public

Improbable Fictions presents Medieval Medley, a staged reading

Gorgas Library 205 711 Capstone Dr, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States

On Wednesday, September 12, 7:30 pm, at 205 Gorgas Library, Improbable Fictions will present a staged reading of three Medieval plays: Hroswitha of Gandersheim's Dulcitius (a saintly comedy), a selection from the York Mystery Cycle, and a contemporary morality play written by Elizabeth Kirkland. Performances directed by Elizabeth Kirkland and Deborah Parker. This event is…

Free and open to the public