Sept. 21, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium
Writers Forum Presents: Camille Guthrie
Camille Guthrie is the author of four books of poetry and she has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation.
Camille Guthrie is the author of four books of poetry: Diamonds, Articulated Lair: Poems for Louise Bourgeois, In Captivity, and The Master Thief. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Boston Review, Green Mountains Review, The Iowa Review, The New Republic, and Tin House as well as The Best American Poetry 2019 and 2020. Guthrie has been awarded fellowships from MacDowell and the Yaddo Foundation. She received her MFA from Brown University and her BA from Vassar College. The Director of the Undergraduate Writing Initiatives at Bennington College, she lives in rural Vermont.
Oct. 5, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium
Writers Forum Presents: Andy Plattner
Andy Plattner has published five books of fiction, including four short story collections. His latest collection, Tower, was published in April 2022 by Mercer University Press.
Andy Plattner has published five books of fiction, including four short story collections. His collection Winter Money won the Flannery O’Connor Award, and his novel Offerings From a Rust Belt Jockey won the Dzanc Mid-Career Novel Award and the Castleton-Lyons Book Award. Other awards have included the Ferrol Sams Fiction Prize, two gold medals from the Faulkner Society, and a silver medal from the Independent Publishers’ Book Awards. His stories have appeared in journals including Mississippi Review, The Literary Review, Epoch, The Southern Review, Sewanee Review, Fiction, and The Paris Review. His latest collection, Tower, was published in April 2022 by Mercer University Press. He lives in Atlanta and teaches world literature and fiction writing at Kennesaw State University.
Oct. 19, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium
Writers Forum Presents: Dave Mihalyov
David Mihalyov’s poems and short fiction have appeared in more than two dozen journals, and his first poetry collection, A Safe Distance, was published by Main Street Rag Press in Spring 2022.
David Mihalyov lives in Webster, New York, with his wife, two daughters, and beagle. His poems and short fiction have appeared in more than two dozen journals, and his first poetry collection, A Safe Distance, was published by Main Street Rag Press in Spring 2022. He has two degrees from SUNY Brockport, volunteers as a peer reviewer for Whale Road Review, and is on the Board of Directors at Writers & Books.
Nov. 9, 2022, 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. | Brockport Downtown (REOC), 161 Chestnut Street, Rochester, NY
The Ingersoll Reading: Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first collection, Satan Says (1980), won the San Francisco Poetry Award, and her 1983 collection The Dead and the Living was a Lamont Poetry Selection and won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Sharon Olds is the author of eleven volumes of poetry and a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Her first collection, Satan Says (1980), won the San Francisco Poetry Award, and her 1983 collection The Dead and the Living was a Lamont Poetry Selection and won the National Book Critics Circle Award. She was New York State Poet Laureate from 1998 to 2000, and she is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Paris Review, Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, and the New York Times. Her next book, Balladz, will be published by Knopf in October 2022. She lives in New York City.
Seating is limited, so please register online to attend in person. The event will also be live streamed on YouTube. No registration is necessary to live stream the event.
The Ingersoll Reading is presented with the generous support of the Ingersoll Family Foundation.
Nov. 30, 2022, 7:30 p.m. | Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium
Writers Forum Presents: Clifford Thompson
Clifford Thompson’s book What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (2019) was selected by Time magazine as one of the “Most Anticipated Books” of the season. He received a Whiting Award for Love for Sale and Other Essays, published by Autumn House Press, which also brought out his memoir, Twin of Blackness.
Clifford Thompson’s book What It Is: Race, Family, and One Thinking Black Man’s Blues (2019) was selected by Time magazine as one of the “Most Anticipated Books” of the season. He received a Whiting Award for Love for Sale and Other Essays, published by Autumn House Press, which also brought out his memoir, Twin of Blackness.
His personal essays and writings on books, film, jazz, and American identity have appeared in The Best American Essays 2018, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Village Voice, The Times Literary Supplement, The Threepenny Review, Commonweal, Cineaste, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. Thompson lives in Brooklyn and teaches at the Bennington Writing Seminars and Sarah Lawrence College. He is the author and illustrator of the graphic novel Big Man and the Little Men, due out from Other Press in Fall 2022.