Monday, January 31, 2005

For updates on the Writers' Week public conferences, visit the creative writing Web site.

Jan. 31, 2005

Wilmington, N.C. – The University of North Carolina Wilmington’s Department of Creative Writing will hold its annual Writers' Week Feb. 7 – 11. Information about each of the public events follows below.

Monday, Feb. 7

John Sullivan, author of Blood Horses: Notes of A Sportswriter’s Son, works as writer-at-large for GQ. Creative nonfiction reading at 8 p.m. in Cameron Hall auditorium, Room 105.

Dana Sachs’ memoir The House on Dream Street: Memoir of an American Woman in Vietnam is the 2005 Wilmington One Book-One Community selection. Creative nonfiction reading at 8 p.m. in Cameron Hall auditorium, Room 105.

Tuesday, Feb. 8

Mark Wunderlich is the author of The Anchorage, which received the 1999 Lambda Literary Award and the newly released Voluntary Servitude. Poetry reading at 8 p.m. in Dobo Hall, Room 134.

Virginia Holman is the award-winning author of Rescuing Patty Hearst, a memoir of her family’s battle with her mother’s untreated schizophrenia. Creative nonfiction reading at 8 p.m. in Dobo Hall, Room 134.

Wednesday, Feb. 9

A. Van Jordan is the winner of the 2004 Whiting Award and the author of Rise and M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A. Poetry reading at 8 p.m. in Dobo Hall, Room 134.

Michael Parker is the author of Hello Down There, a novel which was named a notable book of the year by the New York Times. Fiction reading at 8 p.m. in Dobo Hall, Room 134.

Thursday, Feb. 10

Poet Robert Creeley will give the keynote address at 8 p.m. in Kenan Auditorium. He has received numerous awards, including the Robert Frost Medal, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships and a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship. This project received support from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Friday, Feb. 11

George Singleton is the author of The Half-Mammals of Dixie and These People Are Us. Fiction reading at 2 p.m. in Cameron Hall auditorium, Room 105.

A publishing panel with Barbara Brannon, Bill Henderson, Kathy Poires and John Sullivan will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 11 in King Hall, Room 101.

Except for Robert Creeley’s reading, all of the above Writers’ Week events are free and open to the public. Admission for Robert Creeley’s keynote address will be $7 ($5 for senior citizens). Tickets can be reserved by calling 910/962-3500. Receptions and book signings will be held after each reading.