Author, playwright, and President of PEN America, Ayad Akhtar, will read his latest work, followed by a book signing and reception at the Harry Ransom Center. His work has been published and performed in over two dozen languages. He is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Edith Wharton Citation of Merit for Fiction, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Akhtar is the author of Homeland Elegies (Little, Brown & Co.), American Dervish (Little, Brown & Co.), Junk (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Kennedy Prize for American Drama, Tony nomination); Disgraced (Lincoln Center, Broadway; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination); The Who & The What(Lincoln Center); and The Invisible Hand (NYTW; Obie Award, Outer Critics Circle John Gassner Award, Olivier, and Evening Standard nominations).

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The Michener Center is thrilled to celebrate our classes of 2020, 2021, and 2022 this May! Please join us for three public readings (5/7, 5/13, and 5/14) at the Harry Ransom Center (HRC). Details for each reading below.

Reading for the Class of 2022
May 7, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Chichi Abii, Emmie Atwood, Beverly Chukwu, Kendra Daniels, Rickey Fayne, Ryan Paradiso, Mary Lee, Alejandro Puyana, Jaymes Sanchez, Zack Schlosberg, Leela Srinivasan, & Molly Williams.

Reading for the Class of 2020
May 13, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Desiree Evans, Shangyang Fang, Annelyse Gelman, Nathan Harris, Rachel Heng, Michael Herr, Paul Kruse, Cecelia Raker, Tracey Rose, Daniel Ruiz, Kim Tran, & Minghao Tu.

Reading for the Class of 2021
May 14, 2022
Place: The Harry Ransom Center (HRC)
Time: Reception at 5pm, Reading at 6pm
Readings by: Amanda Bestor-Siegal, Maryan Captan, Hedgie Choi, Willie Fitzgerald, Lauren Green, David Grivette, Jackson Holbert, Gursimrat Kaur, Bismarck Martinez, Sam Mayer, Soeun Seo, & Avigayl Sharp.

Join MCW alum Leah Hampton and MCW fiction faculty Edward Carey for a discussion of Leah’s new book F*CKFACE. 7PM, Friday, July 17. Presented via Zoom by BookPeople. More details here.

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You are invited to an evening with acclaimed novelist and short story writer Paul Yoon at BookPeople on Thursday, February 20 at 7PM. He is the author of numerous books including, Once the Shore, which was selected as a New York Times Notable Book and a Best Debut of the Year by National Public Radio, the novel Snow Hunters, which won the 2014 Young Lions Fiction Award, and The Mountain, which was a National Public Radio Best Book of the Year. His latest novel is Run Me to Earth, reviewed here in the New York Times. You may have seen Paul’s appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers last week. Paul will be in conversation with Laura van den Berg. This event is free and open to the public. Let us know you’re coming on Facebook

7PM
Thursday, November 7, 2019
Harry Ransom Center
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Join us for an evening with Tracy K. Smith, 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. She is the winner of numerous awards, including the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her collection, Life on Mars. Her memoir Ordinary Light was shortlisted for the 2015 National Book Award. A Q&A and reception will follow the reading.

Sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center.

This reading is free and open to the public.

6PM
Thursday, October 10, 2019
Harry Ransom Center
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We are thrilled to have Lauren Groff for a reading at the Ransom Center on October 10th. She is the author of numerous books including Fates and Furies, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Prize, and was a New York Times Bestseller. It was President Barack Obama’s favorite book of 2015. Groff is also the author of the recent and acclaimed short story collection Florida. 

“Lauren Groff is a great storyteller . . . Florida is restorative fiction for these urgent times. Its final gestures, even the most ominous . . . lean toward love and the promise of good people, in not just this state but the world.” –New York Times

Sponsored by the Michener Center for Writers and the Harry Ransom Center.

This reading is free and open to the public.

6PM
Tuesday, September 24
Mulva Auditorium
Engineering and Education Research Center (EER)
2501 Speedway
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Joanna Klink is the author of They Are Sleeping (University of Georgia Press, 2000), Circadian (Penguin Books, 2007), Raptus (Penguin Books, 2010), and Excerpts for a Secret Prophecy (Penguin Books, 2015). She has received awards and fellowships from The Rona Jaffe Foundation, Jeannette Haien Ballard, Civitella Ranieri, The Bogliasco Foundation, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Trust of Amy Lowell. She was the Briggs-Copeland Poet at Harvard University and teaches in the Creative Writing Program at The University of Montana.

Joanna Klink is the Fall 2019 Visiting Poet at the Michener Center for Writers. This event is free and open to the public.

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