| Expressions: A Literary
Festival Festival Schedule
:: Author Profiles |
| Thursday, October 14 | ||
| Leslie Ullman (poet) visits Stephens poetry class | 9:30-10:45 a.m. | Dudley 223, Stephens campus, 1403 E. Broadway |
| Thomas Kennedy (novelist) discussion and viewing of documentary | 3-4:15 p.m. | Charters Lecture Hall, Stephens campus, 1407 E. Broadway |
| Readings by Leslie Ullman (poet) and Dale Kushner (poet/fiction writer) | 4:30-5:30 p.m. | Windsor Lounge in Stamper Commons, Stephens campus, 1300 E. Broadway |
| Thomas Kennedy, Missouri Review Readers’ Circle Greene’s Summer book discussion |
7 p.m. |
Barnes & Noble, Columbia Mall |
| Friday, October 15 | ||
| Ragtag Readings | Ragtag Cinemacafé, 23 N. 10th St. |
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| Featured Readings: Phyllis Barber (nonfiction writer) and Lauren B. Davis (novelist) | 5:30 p.m., 6 p.m. | |
| Short Takes: Pamela Painter (fiction writer), Judith Witters (storyteller) and Thomas Kennedy (novelist) | 6:30-7:15 p.m. | |
| Saturday, October 16 | ||
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Book Signing and Brief Readings: Leslie Ullman, Lauren B. Davis, Pamela Painter, Thomas Kennedy and Gladys Swan |
1 p.m. | Barnes & Noble, Columbia Mall |
| Opening Reception for “Expressions: Painting, Pottery, and Poetry,” a show by Gladys Swan | 3:30-5:30 p.m. | Davis Art Gallery, Stephens campus, corner of Walnut and Ripley streets |
| Gladys Swan Reading and 70th birthday party | 7:30 p.m. | Senior Recital Hall and Parlors, Stephens campus, 100 Waugh St. |
| Monday, October 18 | ||
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Judith Witters (storyteller) |
10, 11 a.m. | Windsor Lounge in Stamper Commons, Stephens campus, 1300 E. Broadway |
| Brown Bag Lunch: Poetry, Fiction, and Publishing (drinks and dessert provided) | 12:15 p.m. | Windsor Lounge in Stamper Commons, Stephens campus, 1300 E. Broadway |
| Reading by Marie Harris (poet) | 12:45 p.m. | |
| Short Takes: Marie Hayes (fiction) and Speer Morgan (fiction) | 1:30 p.m. | |
| Marie Hayes (fiction writer/editor of Story Quarterly) and Speer Morgan (fiction writer/editor of the Missouri Review) presentation on publishing | 2:15 p.m. | |
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Author Profiles |
 Gladys
Swan Gladys Swan has published five collections of short fiction and two novels, Carnival for the Gods (Vintage Contemporaries Series) and Ghost Dance: A Play of Voices, nominated by LSU Press for the Pen/Faulkner Award. Her most recent book, a novella and stories under the title News from the Volcano, was also nominated for the Pen/Faulkner Award. Her short fiction has appeared in such literary magazines as the Kenyon Review, Sewanee Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Shenandoah, Manoa, Ohio Review, and Prairie Schooner, where she was awarded the Lawrence Foundation Prize for Fiction. In 2001, she received the Tate Prize for Poetry from the Sewanee Review. She was awarded one of the first Open Fellowships from the Lilly Endowment for a study in Inuit art and mythology and has held residencies at Yaddo, the Fundacion Valpariso in Spain, and the Chateau de Lavigny in Switzerland. She has received two fellowships for residencies in painting at the Vermont Studio Center, where she has also been a guest writer. |
 Phyllis
BarberPhyllis Barber is the author of Smiley Snake’s Adventure (Aro Press, 1980), The School of Love (University of Utah Press, 1990) a series of short stories, Legs: The Story of a Giraffe (McElderry/Macmillian, 1991), How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir (University of Georgia Press, 1992), and Parting the Veil: Stories from a Mormon Imagination (Signature Press 1999). She has published in many literary magazines such as the Kenyon Review, North American Review, Fiction International, The Chariton Review, The Missouri Review, Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, and Crazy Horse among others. In 1996 she received first prize in the Sunstone D.K. Brown Fiction Competition for “Mormon Levis.” In 1991, she received the Associated Writing Program Award Series Prize in Creative Nonfiction for How I Got Cultured: A Nevada Memoir. The book and author were featured on the NBC-Today show in 1997 and on a BBC documentary. She also received first prize in the Utah Fine Arts Literary Competition for “Criminal Justice” (Short story category) and The Desert Shall Blossom (novel category) in 1998. The novel was chosen by the Utah Endowment for the Humanities for the Book Group Library Series. Barber has also been a member of the faculty of the Vermont College MFA Writing Program since 1990, and received the Louise Crowley & Roger Weingarten Award for Excellence in Teaching in Summer 1999. She is a co-founder of the Writers at Work Conference In Park City, Utah. |
 Lauren
B. DavisLauren B. Davis is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Stubborn Season (Harper Flamingo Canada, 2002), as well as a collection of short stories, Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives (Mosaic Press, 2000), which was greeted with enthusiastic reviews. Born in Montreal, Quebec, Lauren B. Davis recently lived in France for ten years. She now lives in Princeton, N.J. “Davis’s talent is unmistakable…she evokes with harrowing precision. … Margaret is one of the most memorable characters I have encountered in contemporary Canadian fiction… inspiring.” The National Post |
 Marie
HarrisMarie Harris is the author of Raw Honey (Alice James Books, 1975), Interstate (Slow Loris Press, 1980), Weasel in the Turkey Pen (Hanging Loose Press, 1993), Your Sun, Manny: A Prose Poem Memoir (New Rivers Press, 1999), G is for Granite: A New Hampshire Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press, 2002), and Primary Numbers: A New Hampshire Counting Book (Sleeping Bear Press, 2004). Her work has appeared in the Rivendell, Poet Lore, Paragraph, Poetry Miscellany, Turnstile, Hanging Loose, New Hampshire College Journal, Sojourner, Longhouse, Heaven Bone, and The Formalist literary magazines. She is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and a freelance writer and editor. |
| Marie Hayes Marie Hayes is currently working as editor-in-chief and publisher of Story Quarterly, has anthologized in New Stories from the South, Best of 1995, in 2Plus2: An Anthology of International Fiction, and listed in the Best of the West. Her honors include a Katherine Anne Porter Prize from Nimrod magazine, prizes from Redbook, Writer’s Digest, Writers of the Future Contest, Negative Capability and numerous screen fellowships. Hayes’ fiction has appeared in commercial and literary magazines, which include Redbook, Gallery North American Review, High Plains Literary Review and others. Hayes’ association with Story Quarterly goes back to 1994, plus a one-time co-editorship in 1985. |
 Thomas
E. KennedyThomas E. Kennedy’s most recent works include the four novels of The Copenhagen Quartet: Kerrigan’s Copenhagen, A Love Story (2002), Bluett’s Blue Hours (2003), Greene’s Summer (2004), and Breathwaite’s Fall (scheduled for 2005). All four books are published by Wynkin de Worde, and are focused on the Danish capital City. 2004 also sees the release of a DVD documentary film produced by Harper College titled Thomas E. Kennedy, Copenhagen Quartet. In addition to a dozen other previous books in 2002, Kennedy published Realism & Other Illusions: Essays on the Craft of Fiction (Wordcraft of Oregon), a book of travel writing, The Literary Traveler, co-authored with Walter Cummins, is due out from Del Sol Press in 2004. His stories, essays, poems, articles, interviews, and translations from the Danish appear regularly in anthologies and periodicals—most recently in New Letters, The Literary Review, and elsewhere—and have won a number of awards, including the O’Henry, Pushcart, Gulf Coast, Angoff, European and Frank Expatriate Writing prizes. Kennedy serves as advisory editor of The Literary Review and is international editor of Story Quarterly and teaches in the Fairleigh Dickson University MFA Program. |
 Dale
M. KushnerDale M. Kushner is a writer, educator, and the founder of The Writer’s Place, a literary center in Madison, Wis. Her work has been widely published in literary journals, including Beloit Fiction, Crazyhorse, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Salmagundi, Women’s Review of Books, and elsewhere. Her collection of poems, Another Kingdom, was translated into Serbo-Croatian, and published in Yugoslavia in 1991. Her current manuscript Via Magdalene is being considered by several presses. She is a recipient of a Wisconsin Arts Board Grant in the Literary Arts. Her interest in Carl Jung has taken her to the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich, for intensive study. She is at work on a novel The Conditions of Love, part of which was featured in The Literary Review, and is also collaborating with the NYC artist, Larry Schulte, on a project of poetry and visual art. |
 Speer
MorganSpeer Morgan is the author of Frog Gig and Other Stories (University of Missouri Press, 1976), Belle Star (Atlantic, 1979), Brother Enemy (Atlantic, 1981), The Assemblers (Dutton 1986), he co-edited The Best of The Missouri Review 1978-1990, For Our Beloved Country: American War Diaries from the Revolution to the Persian Gulf (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1994), and The Whipping Boy (Houghton Mifflin 1994). He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Missouri Review, and has been since 1979. |
 Pamela
PainterPamela Painter is the author of the award-winning story collection Getting to Know the Weather (University of Illinois Press), and a co-author with Anne Bernays of What If? Writing Exercises for Fiction Writers, revised for a third text edition in 2004. A second story collection The Long and the Short of It, was published by Carnegie Mellon University Press. Her stories have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s, Kenyon Review, North American Review, and Ploughshares, among others and in numerous anthologies. She has received awards and fellowships from the Illinois and Massachusetts Arts Councils, and the National Endowment for the Arts, three Pushcart Prizes, and Angi’s John Cheever Award for Fiction. Painter is a founding editor of Story Quarterly. She teaches in the Writing, Literature, and Publishing Program at Emerson College in Boston. |
 Leslie
UllmanLeslie Ullman is a full professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Texas-El Paso and on the writing faculty of the MFA Program at Vermont College since 1981. Her work includes Natural Histories (Yale University Press, 1979), which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, Dreams by No One’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1987) and Slow Work Through Sand (University of Iowa Press, 1998), which won the Iowa Poetry Prize. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, The Nation, Epoch, New York Quarterly, Antioch Review, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Poetry Northwest, Carleton Miscellany, Crazy Horse, New Letters and Open Places. |
 Judith
WittersJudith Witters is a “Three Apple Storyteller.” She earned an M.A.T Secondary Level, M.Ed. Young Child, and an M.F.A. in Writing. She has published When the Earth was Bare (Thomas Nelson, 1994). She has been a professional storyteller since 1982 and a Vermont Arts Council Touring Artist since 1998. “Three apples fell from heaven/One for the listener/One for the Teller/One for all the people of the world.” American Folk Saying back to top |
