Nonfiction Writing Program alum Sandy Allen will read from A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise. "A breakthrough in meta-biographical writing... [Allen] marries several distinct genres to produce an insight into what it means to be a person with a psychiatric diagnosis...Thrilling... Gorgeous... a watershed in empathetic adaptation of 'outsider' autobiography." –The New Republic

A Kind of Mirraculas Paradise is Sandy Allen’s rendition of the typewritten “true story” of their uncle Bob, a hermit who...

Workshop graduate, T. Coraghessan Boyle is the author of seventeen novels and more than 100 short stories. His novels most recently include The Relive Box (2017), The Terranauts (2016), The Harder They Come (2015), and the forthcoming Outside Looking In (2019). He has been the recipient of a number of prestigious literary awards, including the PEN/Malamud Prize in Short Fiction (T.C. Boyle Stories, 1999), the Prix Médicis Étranger for best foreign novel in France (The Tortilla Curtain, 1997)...

Grant Wood fellow, Mother-loving genius, cunning linguist, Brandon Alexander Williams will do a lyrical analysis on the art of rapping and performance poetry. He will be giving a two-hour workshop on rapping and performance poetry at the Writers’ Workshop this Friday, November 30.
-Free food. (first come, first served.)
-Bring notebook and pens.
-No prior hip-hop experience is required to attend.
-This is for writers, poets, rappers and anyone interested in writing rap or poetry. 

Please join Adam Haslett and Jess Walter for a reading in the Frank Conroy Reading Room at 8pm on Thursday, November 29.

A National Book Award finalist and winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award, Jess Walter is the author of six novels, one book of short stories and one nonfiction book. His work has been translated into 32 languages, and his essays, short fiction, criticism and journalism have been widely published, including appearances in Best American Short Stories, Best American Nonrequired...