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Creative Writing Bookfair and Festival September

August 30, 2012

Creative Writing Bookfair and Festival September

The Department of English is hosting a Creative Writing Bookfair and Festival September 14 -16, 2012.

Guest Alumni/Authors:

The Department of English is proud to "bring home" seven Ohio State writers with new books this year:

Christopher Coake ('04), You Came Back

Michael Kardos ('03), The Three-Day Affair

Joe Oestreich ('07), Hitless Wonder: A Life in Minor League Rock and Roll

Catherine Pierce ('03), The Girls of Peculiar

Letitia Trent ('07), One Perfect Bird

Claire Vaye Watkins ('11), Battleborn

Betsy Wheeler ('05), Loud Dreaming in a Quiet Room

Guest Alumni/Panelists:

In addition, the department will also bring home several other alumni with recent and forthcoming books who will participate on panels: Donald Ray Pollock's ('09) The Devil All the Time (2011) is newly out in paperback; his first book, Knockemstiff, won the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize for a first work of fiction. Natalie Shapero ('08) is the author of the forthcoming No Object. She is the 2012-2014 Kenyon Review Fellow at Kenyon College. Ida Stewart ('08) is the author of Gloss, winner of the 2011 Perugia Press Prize for a first or second book of poetry by a woman. She is a PhD student in creative writing at The University of Georgia and co-editor of Unsplendid.

Schedule of Events:

Friday, September 14

2:30 pm - Bookfair and Festival opens - Welcome from Michelle Herman, Director of Creative Writing - Thompson Library, room 460

3-4 pm – Ohio State nonfiction MFA student ('13) Kristen Grayewski interviews Joe Oestrich. Audience Q & A to follow - Thompson Library, room 150b

4:30-5:30 pm - Discussion with poet/editor/small press publisher Betsy Wheeler about small-press publishing and bookmaking, starting up a micro press, elements of simple book design, the relationship between the writing process and the artistic process - Thompson Library, room 150b

6:30 pm - Readings/signings at OSU Bookstore/Barnes and Noble: Betsy Wheeler, Letitia Trent, Joe Oestrich

Saturday, September 15

11:30 am - 1:30 pm - Panel offering frank, candid advice about publishing a first book of prose: Claire Vaye Watkins, Michael Kardos, Christopher Coake, Joe Oestrich, Donald Ray Pollock (Nick White, OSU fiction MFA '13, moderates)- Thompson Library, room 165

11:30 am - 1:00 pm - Panel on publishing a first book of poetry: Letitia Trent, Betsy Wheeler, Catherine Pierce, Ida Stewart (Natalie Shapero moderates) - Thompson Library, room 202

2:00 - 3:30 pm - Panel on finding (and keeping) a tenure-track job: Claire Vaye Watkins, Michael Kardos, Catherine Pierce, Joe Oestrich, Christopher Coake (Silas Hansen, Ohio State nonfiction MFA '13, moderates) - Thompson Library, room 165

4:00 -5:30 pm - Panel on chapbooks and online publishing for poets: Betsy Wheeler and Letitia Trent (Allison Davis, Ohio State MFA poetry '12, moderates) - Thompson Library, room 202

6:00 pm - Readings/signings at OSU Bookstore/Barnes and Noble: Michael Kardos and Catherine Pierce

9:00 pm - Gala featuring Heatwave, Watershed, and an all-star writer (& ringers) band - Ace of Cups

Sunday, September 16

12:00 pm - Readings/signings at OSU Bookstore/Barnes and Noble: Christopher Coake and Claire Vaye Watkins

2:00 - 3:30 pm - Panel on the literary genre (and the literary versus genre) novel with Michael Kardos and Christopher Coake - (Ali Salerno, Ohio State fiction MFA '11, moderates) Thompson Library, room 165

4:00 - 5:30 pm - Panel on writing a novel after stories—the challenges and craft issues—by novelists whose first books were collections of stories: Michael Kardos, Christopher Coake, and Donald Ray Pollock - (Claire Watkins moderates) Thompson Library, room 460

4:00 - 5:00 pm - Panel/discussion on the relationship between poetry and nonfiction, Catherine Pierce, Joe Oestrich, and Letitia Trent - (Nicole Butler, Ohio State nonfiction MFA '13, moderates) Thompson Library, room 202

5:30 - 6:00 pm - Bookfair concludes, Thompson Library, room 460

Sponsored by the Department of English MFA Program in Creative Writing, the Office of the President, and the Ohio State University Libraries.

All events are free and open to the public.

https://english.osu.edu/creative-writing/bookfair

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