Readings & Activities

2008-2009

We are delighted to host the following editors and authors this year:

Lorin Stein, senior editor of Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Eli Horowitz, publisher of McSweeney’s
Michael Chabon, novelist and essayist
Chris Howell, poet
Clancy Martin, novelist

We also welcome the novelist Laura Moriarty as an assistant professor of creative writing and a permanent member of our faculty

More to be announced...

Congratulations to KU alumni Dan Hoyt for winning the Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press for his collection "A Sort of Family

2007-2008

We welcomed the following writers:

Kellie Wells, short story writer and novelist, winner of the Flannery O'Connor Prize
Michael Martone, fiction and nonfiction writer
Scott Heim, novelist, author of Mysterious Skin and We Disappear
John Price, essayist
Paul Muldoon, acclaimed poet
Rachel Sherman; short story writer and novelist
Lyn Hejinian; poet, essayist, and translator

Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low served as writer-in-residence during the spring semester, 2008

2006-2007

We welcomed the following writers and editors:

Nuruddin Farah , prize-winning Somali novelist
Ted Kooser, U.S. Poet Laureate
Michael Parker (Hello Down There)
B.H. Fairchild, poet (The Art of the Lathe)
Todd Marshall, poet (Dare Say)
Sam Lipsyte, fiction writer, (Homeland)
Kathy Pories, senior editor at Algonquin
Clancy Martin, novelist

We were also pleased to also host writers-in-residence Bob Day (The Last Cattle Drive) and Gary Lutz (Stories in the Worst Way).

2006-2008

Prize-winning Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah and U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser highlighted last year's schedule of visitng writiers at KU. Other visitors last year included fiction-writer Michael Parker (Hello Down There), poets B.H. Fairchild (The Art of the Lathe) and Todd Marshall (Dare Say), fiction-writer Sam Lipsyte (Homeland), and senior Algonquin editor Kathy Pories. We were pleased to also host writers-in-residence Bob Day (The Last Cattle Drive) and Gary Lutz (Stories in the Worst Way).

Featured writer this fall will be short story writer & novelist Kellie Wells (Compression Scars, Skin), who will be visiting KU in October.

Kansas Poet Laureate Denise Low will be serving as writer-in-residence during the spring semester, 2008