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Award-winning author Darien Hsu Gee read select works last Thursday, Oct. 12, at the UConn Bookstore in Storrs Center, thanks to UConn’s Creative Writing Program. She is now the third recipient of the Mark Twain Distinguished Writer-in-Residence Program, following Alexander Chee in 2021 and Justin Torres in 2019.  

As mistakes go, count this as one of the happy variety.

“There is a solitude of space,” a line from an Emily Dickinson lyric that comes to mind as you climb — as writers, scholars, students and readers have done for over 120 years — those steep, rather tw...

As mistakes go, count this as one of the happy variety.

As mistakes go, count this as one of the happy variety.

As soon as I read that first line once more, I knew this was the piece. It had a special resonance.

Posted By Jeff Gardner on Tue, Feb 2, 2021 at 10:00 AM Courtesy PCPL Twice a year, the Pima County Public Library selects a local writer in residence to teach writing workshops and hold office hours for the community. For the upcoming spring semester, PCPL has selected Gregory McNamee, a local writer, photographer and journalist who has released multiple books on the culture...

Aspiring writers in Strathcona County may want to check out the latest offerings at Strathcona County Library as a pair of well-known scribes have taken up…

Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence North Carolina poet Laureate, Jaki Shelton Green 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence Readings The week will include two public events—a panel on Environmental Justice and a conversation moderated by Gene Nichol, class visits by each writer, a community outreach with a local high school and a writing session with UNC creative writing students, and a celebratory dinner. Monday, Feb 22: CHANGE: Due to weather conditions and travel, Rev. William Barber II wi...