The Midnight Sun Visiting Writer Series
The 2011-12 Schedule
9 September 2011 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Lawrence Millman
Wood Center Ballroom
"Millman makes the frozen north seem to burst with life and color," - LA Times
30 September 2011 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Johnny Payne and James Engelhardt
Wood Center Ballroom
CLA's new Dean is joined by the UAF Press Aquisitions Editor for a special reading of their work.
14 October 2011 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Andrew Porter
Museum of the North
"The kind of voice one can accept as universa - honest and grave, with transparancy as its adornment." - Marilynne Robinson
11 November 2011 - Friday, 7:00 PM- CANCELLED
Mariela Griffor
Wood Center Ballroom
"I did not choose to share my experience though poetry. Poetry chose me."
11 November 2011 - Friday, 7:00 PM
UAF MFA Faculty and Student Reading
Wood Center Ballroom
David Crouse, Chris Malmberg, Elizabeth Sharrock, Rachel Elmer, Grace McCarthy and Heather Warren.
3 February 2012 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Nicole Stellon O'Donnell
Wood Center Ballroom
O'Donnel's poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ice Floe, Cirque, and other literary journals.
9 March 2012 - Friday, 7:00 PM
UAF MFA Faculty
Wood Center Ballroom
The Creative Writers of the UAF MFA Faculty will read from their works in progress.
30 March 2012 - Friday, 7:00 PM
G.C. Waldrep
Wood Center Ballroom
"The poetry of G.C. Waldrep is a prolific liturgy, intense and conversational by turns." - Donald Revell
6 April 2012 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Steve Almond
Wood Center Ballroom
"Steve Almond's work is funny and beguiling and completely original." - Lorrie Moore
20 April 2012 - Friday, 7:00 PM
Dana Spiotta
Wood Center Ballroom
"Spiotta delivers one of hte most moving and original portraits of a sibling relationship in recent fiction." - Publisher's Weekly
Director for the 2011-12: David Crouse
Every year, the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series brings a number of writers of national significance to Alaska. Through readings, lectures, and individual meetings with local aspiring authors, poets and playwrights, these gifted and unique writers engage in a crucial artistic and cultural exchange.
Among the artists who have come to UAF as Midnight Sun Visiting Writers have been poet and writer laureates, winners of the National Book Award, and Pulitzer Prize winners and nominees. Since the 1970’s, the Midnight Sun Writers Series has brought many of the nation’s finest writers to Alaska, and the writers scheduled to appear this year will add to that proud tradition. All Midnight Sun Visiting Writers readings are free and open to all.
For information about the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series, contact PR Assistant Christie VanLaningham, uafenglishpr@gmail.com, (907) 474-5398.