The Writers-in-Residence program hosts a variety of guest authors each year. They give community readings, speak with Flagler English and creative writing classes and hold discussions and workshops for aspiring writers and novelists.
Many popular and renowned writers have visited the Flagler program over the years, including Tim O’Brien, W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Olen Butler, Connie May Fowler, Gerald Stern and Dennis Lehane.
Writers-in-Residence may present fiction, non-fiction or poetry, offering students an overview of several career paths they may want to pursue after graduation.
For more information about the Writers-in-Residence program, or to receive updates on upcoming author readings and workshops, contact writers@flagler.edu.
KAO KALIA YANG
Reading: Mar. 2, 2009, 5 p.m.
Gamache-Koger Theater, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
Kao Kalia Yang is the first Hmong American to share her people's story through literature. Her memoir, "The Latehomecomer," a Midwest Booksellers Association Midwest Connection Pick, is as notable for its lyrical style as it is politically and historically newsworthy. "The Latehomecomer" tells the story of her family in Laos, the refugee camps of Thailand, and their new life in Minnesota.Publishers Weekly says “readers will delight at how intimately they have become a part of this formerly strange culture.” Although 300,000 Hmong found refuge in the U.S. after being displaced during America’s “secret war” in Laos, their stories have remained largely untold. Yang has been working with English-as-a-second-language students for many years and has given workshops in schools and at conferences all over the country.
NANCE VAN WINCKEL
Reading: March 5, 2009, 7 p.m.
Craft Lecture: March 6, 2009, 5 p.m.
Gamache-Koger Theater, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
"No Starling: Poems" is Nance Van Winckel’s fifth book of poetry. Her other titles include "Beside Ourselves" and "After A Spell," which received the Washington State Governor’s Award for Poetry. She's also published three books of short stories, including "Quake," which received the 1998 Paterson Fiction Prize.Van Winckel has received two National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowships, a Pushcart Prize, Poetry Magazine’s Friends of Literature Award, two Washington State Artist Trust Awards, The Midland Authors Award and awards from the Poetry Society of America. She lives in Spokane, Wash.
A CRITICAL LENS: Literary Analysis of Three Coen Brothers Films
Douglas McFarland
Lecture on “No Country for Old Men”: March 10, 2009, 7 p.m.
Flagler Auditorium, 14 Granada St.
Alan Woolfolk
Lecture on “Blood Simple”: March 11, 2009, 7 p.m.
Gamache-Koger Theater, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
R. Barton Palmer
Lecture on “The Man Who Wasn’t There”: March 12, 2009, 7 p.m.
Flagler Auditorium, 14 Granada St.
BENJAMIN GROSSBERG
Reading: April 15, 2009, 7 p.m.
Gamache-Koger Theater, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
Poet Benjamin S. Grossberg of Clayton, Ohio, won the 2008 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for his manuscript, "Sweet Core Orchard," which will be released in early 2009. Tampa Review judges praised Grossberg’s book for its “brilliant lyrical and thematic arcs, rich use of archetype and symbol, and heartening honesty.” His first book, "Underwater Lengths in a Single Breath," won the 2005 Snyder Prize. It received high praise from poets and critics including Richard Howard, who wrote, “I rejoice that these poems are in the world of American letters.” Grossberg’s poems have also appeared widely in literary journals, including Paris Review, Southwest Review, North American Review, and in "The Pushcart Book of Poetry: The Best Poems from the First 30 Years of the Pushcart Prize."
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