Formerly known as the Deep South Festival of Writers, the Creative
Writing Program and Ernest J. Gaines Center Reading Series sponsored
by the UL-Lafayette English Department, brings together writers from
a variety of disciplines in a series of readings and workshops. Below
is this year's schedule of events.
The Ernest J. Gaines Center is located in Dupre Library on the UL Lafayette
campus.
The Creative Writing Program and Ernest J. Gaines Center Reading Series
issupported by the English Department, the College of Liberal Arts, the
Lyceum Committee, and the Ernest J. Gaines Center of UL Lafayette.
READING SERIES 2012-2013 (click on names to view photos of readings)
September 22 – Poetry Reading by Traci Brimhall, with doctoral
student Lucy Biederman
October 2 – Fiction Reading by Michael Griffith, with doctoral
student Joe Baumann
October 10 –Poetry Reading by Bill Lavender and Hank Lazer
October 25 –Fiction Reading by Moira Crone, with doctoral student
Stephanie Marker
October 29 – Fiction
Reading by Wiley Cash
January 26 – Fiction Reading by Nalo
Hopkinson, with doctoral student Elwin
Cotman, 3:30 pm
January 31
– Poetry reading by Carolyn
Hembree, with doctoral student J. Bruce
Fuller, 8:00 pm
February 27 – Poetry Reading by Dawn
Lundy Martin, with doctoral student C. S. Carrier, 7:30 pm
March 16 - Fiction Reading by Michael Lee and
Shome Dasgupta, 3:30 pm
April
20 – Fiction
reading by James
Wilcox, with doctoral student Paul
Albano, 3:30 pm
READING SERIES 2011-2012 (click on names to view photos of readings)
September 8 – Poetry Reading by Vincent Cellucci, with doctoral
student and poet Katie Manning
September 15 – Poetry Reading by Bhanu Kapil, with doctoral student
Kevin Dwyer
October 18 – Ernest Gaines at the Gaines Center – reading
work-in-progress (co-sponsored by Reggie Young and the Ernest Gaines
Center
November 1 – Translation Workshop and Reading by Jen Hofer
November 4 and 5 – Mini-Festival
of UL graduates reading
January 27 – New Orleans poets Megan Burns and Dave Brinks
February 24 – Reading
by Rob Mclennan and Stephen Brockwell
March 15 – Fiction
reading by Lily Hoang, 7:30 pm at the Ernest
J. Gaines Center
March 28 – Fiction reading by Timothy Schaffert, 7:30 pm at the
Ernest J. Gaines Center
April 19 – Fiction reading by Willy Vlautin, 7:30 pm at the Ernest
J. Gaines Center
Photos from
various former Reading Series events