literary calendar for central arkansas_mid-november 2015

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Literary Calendar of Events

for Central Arkansas

2015 2016

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Prague SummerSigning: Jeffery CondranSat., Nov. 14, 3:00 p.m., WordsWorth Books & Co., 5920 R St., Little Rock

Jeffrey Condranis the author of the novel, Prague Summer, winner of the 2015Independent Publisher Book Award Silver Medal. He is an Assistant Professor of Creative Writingat the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and co-founder/publisher of the independent

literary press, Braddock Avenue Books. Condran will read from and sign Prague Summer.For more information contact Jeffery Condran at [email protected].

UCA Creative Writing Faculty ReadingTues., Nov. 17, 7:30 p.m., South on Main Annex, 1304 Main St., Little Rock

The Oxford American presents a reading by UCA creative writing professors Garry CraigPowell, Sandy Longhorn, JennieCase,and Mark Spitzer. Books will be available for purchase.

For more information contact Eliza Born at [email protected].

Reading and Book Signing by Christina GarcaThurs., Nov. 19, 7:30 p.m., College of Business Auditorium 107, UCA, 201

Donaghey Ave., ConwayCristina Garca is the author of six novels:King of Cuba; The Lady Matadors Hotel;A

Handbook to Luck;Monkey Hunting; The Agero Sisters, winner of the Janel Heidiger KafkaPrize; and Dreaming in Cuban, finalist for the National Book Award. Garca has edited twoanthologies, Bordering Fires: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Mexican and Chicano/aLiterature(2006) and Cubansimo: The Vintage Book of Contemporary Cuban Literature(2003).

She is also the author of three works for young readers, Dreams of Significant Girls(2011), ayoung adult novel set in a Swiss boarding school in the 1970s; The Dog Who Loved the Moon,illustrated by Sebastia Serra, (Atheneum, 2008); andI Wanna Be Your Shoebox(Simon andSchuster, 2008). Her collection of poetry, The Lesser Tragedy of Death (Akashic Books), waspublished in 2010.

For more information contact Garry Craig Powell at [email protected] 501-505-8726.


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Fiction Writer Cristina Garca, Interview with Toad Suck ReviewEditorialStaff

Thurs., Nov. 19, 10:00 a.m., Thompson Hall 331, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave.,Conway

Craft Talk/Q&A with Fiction Writer Cristina GarcaFri., Nov. 20, 11:00 a.m., Thompson Hall 331, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave.,

Conway

A Night with Playwright Terrence McNally

Wed., Dec. 2, 7:30 p.m., Bridges Larson Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center,UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave., ConwayFour-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNallyis the author of such

socially provocative plays as Next, Bad Habits, The Ritz, Frankie and Johnny in the Clair deLune, Lips Together, Teeth Apart,A Perfect Ganesh, Love! Valour! Compassion!, CorpusChristi, Some Men, Deuceand Mothers and Sons. In addition, he has written the books for themusicals The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman(which is scheduled to enjoy a Broadway revivalnext season starring Audra McDonald and Alan Cumming), Ragtime,A Man of NoImportance, The Full Monty, Catch Me If You Can, and The Visit.

Terrence McNally will attend one-act plays written by him and directed by and starringUCA students. McNally will participate in a talkback after the performances.

Craft Talk/Q&A with Playwright Terrence McNallyThurs., Dec. 3, 3:00 p.m., Studio Theatre, Snow Fine Arts Center, UCA, 201

Donaghey Ave., Conway

Private Reception with Terrence McNallyThurs., Dec. 3, 5:30-7:00 p.m., Presidents House, UCA Campus

Join us for an intimate evening with one of America's most celebrated playwrights.Wine and appetizers will be served.

Tickets are $100 per person and benefit the Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre. Forinformation about tickets, contact Mary Ruth Marotte at [email protected] (501)

269-9428.

A Writers Life in the Theatre: A Lecture with Playwright TerrenceMcNally

Thurs., Dec. 3, 7:30 p.m., College of Business Auditorium 107, UCA, 201Donaghey Ave., Conway


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Contemporary Opera and Social Justice: An Interview with PlaywrightTerrence McNally

Fri., Dec. 4, 5:30 p.m., Little Rock Central High School National Historic Siteand Visitor Center, 2120 W. Daisy L. Gaston Bates Dr., Little Rock

Guillermo's Coffeehouse Poetry NightWed., Dec. 2, 6:30 p.m., 10700 N. Rodney Parham Rd., Little Rock

On the first Wednesday of the monthanyone is welcome to join for a night to reciteand discuss both personal pieces of literature as well as your works from your favoritepublished poets, as well as anyone who would simply like to listen!

For more information contact Brooke Stewart at 501-246-1860 [email protected].

Sanders Distinguished Lecture: Sander-Darrow Debate RevisitedThurs., Dec. 3, 6:30 p.m., CALS Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market

Ave., Little RockEighty-five years ago at Little Rock High School, the nationally known religious skeptic

Clarence Darrow debated immortality with Rabbi Ira Sanders. This event will be explored anewas a debate reenactment featuring local actors as the Central Arkansas Library Systems (CALS)

2015 Sanders Distinguished Lecture in conjunction with Temple Bnai Israels 150th anniversary.

The event will be followed by a reception. Reservations are requested, but not required.RSVP online via Eventjoy or call 501-918-3009.

For more information contact Susan Gele at [email protected] or 501-918-3086, or Lee Ann

Blackwell Hoskyn at [email protected] or 501- 918-3029.

Arkansas Writers MFA Workshop Reading & Book Signing

Tues., Dec. 8, 7:00 p.m., Faulkner County Library, 1900 W. Tyler St.,ConwayThe MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Central Arkansas will debut its

newest group of graduate student writers, including Drew Cook, Eric Binnie, Alex Coleman,Mikayla Davis, Shane Curry, JJ McNiece, Callie Tahat,and Rachel Hoge.

For more information contact Professor Mark Spitzer at [email protected] or call 501-505-8328.


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Guillermo's Coffeehouse Poetry NightWed., Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m., 10700 N. Rodney Parham Rd., Little Rock



Directors Discussion with Melora KordosFri., Feb. 19, 4:15 p.m., Murphy Seminar Room, Hendrix College, 1600

Washington Ave., ConwayMelora Kordos, Murphy Visiting Theatre Director, will discuss the play she is directing,

Measure for Measureby William Shakespeare. [See February 24 27, 2016, for playperformance schedule.]

Q&A with Writer John DAgata for Creative Nonfiction StudentsTues., Feb. 23, 2:40 p.m., Thompson Hall 331, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave.,

Conway

Public Reading and Book Signing with Writer John DAgataTues., Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., College of Business Auditorium 107, UCA, 201

Donaghey Ave., Conway

Craft Talk/Q&A with Writer John DAgataWed., Feb. 24, 10:00 a.m., Thompson Hall 331, UCA, 201 Donaghey Ave.,

Conway


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Measure for Measure by William ShakespeareWed.-Fri., Feb. 2426, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 27, 2:00 p.m., CabeTheatre,

Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave., ConwayMelora Kordos, this years Murphy Visiting Theatre Director, will direct a student

theatrical production of Shakespeares dark comedy Measure for Measure. Lust, law, andmorals fuel the story in Shakespeares most searching exploration of sexual politics and social

justice.Melora Kordos is a professional actor and director in regional theatre and during the

past 20 years has worked at such venues as the Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., Folger Theatre,Signature Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Court Theatre, and Star Plaza Theatre. She hasperformed in over 50 plays and has appeared in numerous television shows, films, andcommercials, and is an audio book narrator. She is certified by the Society of American FightDirectors and has been studying and teaching stage combat since 1992. She was ArtisticDirector of Studio Roanoke and later the Renaissance Theatre. Originally from Chicago, shemoved to Lynchburg, Virginia, to teach in the theatre department at Randolph College. Shecontinues to teach Shakespeare workshops and acting classes.

For more information contact Henryetta Vanaman at [email protected] or 501-450-4597.

An Evening with Creative Writing Faculty Hope Coulter, Jessica Jacobs, andTy Jaeger

Tues., Mar. 1, 7:30 p.m., Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 1600Washington Ave., ConwayEnglish department creative writing faculty will read from their new books: Hope

Coulter, director of the Hendrix-Murphy programs and instructor of creative writing, will readfrom her collection The Wheel of Light (New Poets Series, BrickHouse Books, 2015); JessicaJacobs, spring 2016 Writer in Residence, will read from herPelvis with Distance: A Biography-in-Poems of Georgia OKeeffe (White Pine Press, 2015); and Tyrone Jaeger, director of theCreative Writing Program and Associate Professor of English, will read from his short storycollection So Many True Believers (Queens Ferry Press, 2016).

For more information contact Henryetta Vanaman at [email protected] or 501-450-4597.

Guillermo's Coffeehouse Poetry Night

Wed., Mar. 2, 6:30 p.m., 10070 N. Rodney Parham Rd., Little RockOn the first Wednesday of the monthanyone is welcome to join for a night to reciteand discuss both personal pieces of literature as well as your works from your favoritepublished poets, as well as anyone who would simply like to listen!



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Empire Without End: Total World Conquest in Roman Literature: ALecture by Randall Pogorzelski

Tues., Mar. 15, 7:30 p.m., Mills C, Hendrix College, 1600 Washington Ave.,

ConwayRandall Pogorzelski, Assistant Professor of Classics (and acting Graduate Chair ofClassics) at Western University (London, Ontario, Canada), will explore in depth the nature ofancient imperialism and offer new perspectives on content and authors so familiar in classicalmyths. His research interests focus on Roman literature, particularly Augustan and earlyimperial literature, as well as literary theory and classical reception. He has published articleson Lucan, Virgil, and imperial epic and is a past winner of the prestigious Gildersleeve Prizegranted to the best paper of the year by theAmerican Journal of Philology.

For more information contact Henryetta Vanaman at [email protected] or call 501-450-4597.

Guillermo's Coffeehouse Poetry NightWed., Apr. 6, 6:30 p.m., 10700 N. Rodney Parham Rd., Little Rock


For more information contact Info Brooke Stewart at 501-246-1860 [email protected].

Readers Map of Arkansas Launch PartyTues., Apr. 12, 7:00 p.m., Oxford AmericanAnnex at South on Main, 1300

S. Main St., Little RockThe Readers Map of Arkansasis the new, updated version of an Arkansas literary map

created by the poet C. D. Wright in 1994 and published by the University of Arkansas Press aspart of her Lost Roads project.

This updated Readers Map of Arkansas, created with Wrights and the UA Pressspermission, honors more than 450 authors, living and dead, who have significant ties toArkansas and have contributed to its rich literature. It will be a fun and useful reference forArkansas educators, students, and readers who want to know more about our literary heritagebesides adding a snazzy visual note to any wall.

Join us for a festive evening with the unveiling of the new map; remarks by steeringcommittee members; and featured authors and insider tips to enjoying the map. Posters of the

map will be for sale.This project is supported in part by a grant from the Arkansas Humanities Council andthe Department of Arkansas Heritage. Additional support comes from the Arkansas LibraryAssociation, the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, the Central Arkansas Library SystemFoundation, the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation Programs in Literature and Language, the PorterFund, Pulaski Technical College, and the University of Central Arkansas.

This event is co-sponsored by the Arkansas Literary Festival and the Readers Map ofArkansas Committee. For more information contact [email protected] or Hope Coulterat 501-450-1388.


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An Evening with Murphy Visiting Poet Kevin YoungThurs., Apr. 14, 7:30 p.m., Reves Recital Hall, Hendrix College, 1600

Washington Ave., ConwayKevin Young,the Atticus Haygood Professor of English and Creative Writing at EmoryUniversity, is often described as the best and brightest of contemporary American poets.Author of eight books of award-winning poetry, he has also edited eight collections of poetry,including The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, and was a finalist for the 2013 National BookCritics Circle Award for criticism. Among awards received by Young are the 2013 PEN/OpenBook Award, the 2007 Quill Award in Poetry for his volume For the Confederate Dead, thePaterson Award for Sustained Literary Excellence with Dear Darkness (2008),Ardency: AChronicle of the Amistad Rebels (2011),which won the Before Columbus FoundationAmericanBook Award, and The Grey Album: On Blackness of Blackness (2012),his first non-fictioncollection of essays, cultural criticism, and lyrical chorus,which won the Graywolf PressNonfiction Prize and was shortlisted for the PEN/Open Award in 2012.

For more information contact Henryetta Vanaman at [email protected] or 501-450-

4597.

Arkansas Literary FestivalThurs., Apr. 14, to Sun., Apr. 17, various times/locations, Little Rock

The premier event for readers and writers in Arkansas features bestselling andemerging authors in readings, panels, signings, and workshops. The festival featuresperformances and additional activities as well.

For more information contact Brad Mooy at [email protected] or 501-918-3098.

TheAonian/Hendrix-Murphy Literary Contest Winners Reception andReading

Thurs., Apr. 28, 4:30 p.m., Murphy Seminar Room, Hendrix College, 1600Washington Ave., ConwayWinners of the Hendrix-Murphy Literary Contest will read their entries during a

reception that also celebrates the debut of this years campus literary and visual art magazine,theAonian.

This calendar is a service provided by the Hendrix-Murphy Foundation in Literature and Language atHendrix College. By distributing a common calendar of public literary events in central Arkansas, wehope to raise awareness of cultural happenings at nearby campuses and libraries, to encouragecommunication among various institutions, and to foster higher participation in their public programs.

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