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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.
HELEN WHITNEY--Visiting Woodrow Wilson Scholar
Reading: Tuesday, Sept. 22nd, Flagler Auditorium, 5 p.m.
Helen Whitney's documentary work has appeared on ABC's "Closeup" and PBS's American Masters, as well as on FRONTLINE. Her documentaries have ranged over a wide variety of subjects, among them: youth gangs, presidential candidates, the mentally ill, a Trappist Monastery, Pope John Paul II, and the photographer Richard Avedon. Whitney's documentaries and features have received many honors, including an Emmy Award, a Peabody Award, an Oscar nomination, the Humanitas Award, and the prestigious duPont-Columbia Journalism Award.
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FRANK X. GASPAR
Reading: Tuesday, October 6th, 5 p.m.
Gamache-Koger Theater, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.
His most recent book is Night of a Thousand Blossoms. Frank Gaspar's previous books were The Holyoke; Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death; A Field Guide to the Heavens. He has published poems in numerous journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Mid-American Review, and Gettysburg Review. He has also won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Pushcart Prize.
OTHER WORDS: A CONFERENCE OF LITERARY MAGAZINES, INDEPENDENT PUBLISHERS, AND WRITERS
Presented by the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, Flagler College, and Jane's Stories
Michael Waters and University of Tampa Press writers: Jordan Smith, Jenny Browne, and Peter Meinke
Friday, Nov. 6th Flagler Room, 7:30 p.m.
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Michael Waters is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Fulbright Foundation, Individual Artist Awards from the Maryland State Arts Council, and four Pushcart Prizes.
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Jordan Smith is the author of five collections of poetry—An Apology for Loving the Old Hymns (Princeton University Press), Lucky Seven (Wesleyan University Press), The Household of Continuance (Copper Beech Press), For Appearances (University of Tampa Press), winner of the Tampa Review Prize for Poetry, and The Names of Things Are Leaving (also Tampa Press). His poems have also appeared widely in journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, and Salmagundi. He is Professor of English and Chairman of the department at Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
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Jenny Brown is the author of The Second Reason (University of Tampa Press, 2007), At Once (UT Press, 2003) and the chapbook, Glass (Pecan Grove, 2000). She is also the editor of Provide and Protect, Writers on Planned and Unplanned Parenthood (Wings Press, 2005). A former James Michener Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, she currently teaches creative writing at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.
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Peter Meinke has published seven books of poems, two books of short stories including The Piano Tuner, which received the Flannery O’Connor Award. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The New Yorker and dozens of literary magazines; and has received numerous awards, including two NEA Fellowships.
Judson Mitcham and Diana Abu-Jaber
Saturday, Nov. 7th Flagler Room, 7:30 p.m.
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Judson Mitcham's poetry has been widely published. His second novel, also won the Townsend Prize, making Mitcham the first writer to receive the award twice.
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of Crescent, which was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and the Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award and was named one of the twenty best novels of 2003 by The Christian Science Monitor.
Please visit www.floridarts.org for more information about the Florida Literary Arts Coalition "Other Words" Conference to be held at Flagler College.
Please visit Jane's Stories Press for more information on the Jane's Retreat at the "Other Words" Conference.
JANIS OWENS & DANA STE. CLAIRE &
The Great Southern Cracker Roadshow
Friday, Feb 5th, 2010, Flagler Auditorium, 7 p.m
Janis Owens, fiction writer, is author of The Cracker Kitchen: A Cookbook in Celebration of Cornbread-Fed, Down Home Family Stories and Cuisine; My Brother Michael; Myra Sims. Dana Ste.Claire is a former feature columnist with the Orlando Sentinel, a PBS television host (Florida Crackerbarrel), and has authored three books, including the award-winning Cracker: The Cracker Culture in Florida History and Borders of Paradise.
JOAN E. BERTIN--Visiting Woodrow Wilson Scholar
Tuesday, Feb. 16th, 2010, Flagler Auditorium, 5 p.m.
Since 1997, Joan E. Bertin has been Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, a coalition of more than 50 national non-profit organizations dedicated to promoting freedom of speech and expression. She graduated from N.Y.U. Law School, where she was a fellow in the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program. Ms. Bertin spent more than a dozen years on the national legal staff of the ACLU where her areas of expertise include constitutional law, employment law, women’s civil rights, and science and law. Currently a faculty member at Columbia University, she also held the Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College.
A CRITICAL LENS: Literary Analysis of Three Alfred Hitchcock Films
Alan Woolfolk
Film Viewing and Lecture on “Vertigo”: March 8, 2010, 7 p.m.
Flagler Auditorium, 14 Granada St.
Douglas McFarland
Film Viewing and Lecture on “Blackmail”: March 9, 2009, 7 p.m.
Flagler Auditorium, 14 Granada St.
R. Barton Palmer
Film Viewing and Lecture on “Secret Agent”: March 10, 2009, 7 p.m.
Flagler Auditorium, 14 Granada St.
Patricia Henley
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Flagler Room
Monday, March 15th, 7 p.m.
Patricia Henley is the author of three collections of short stories and two novels. Her first novel, Hummingbird House, was a finalist for The National Book Award in 1999. Her second novel, In the River Sweet, was a Border's Original Voices selection and was honored as a Best Book of the year by several newspapers. Her short story collection, Worship of the Common Heart, is kept in print by MacAdam/Cage. Her most recent publications include stories in The Seattle Review and The Normal School. SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE published an essay of hers in the February 2010 issue.
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CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY
Reading: Friday, April 16th, 2010, Gamache-Koger Theater, 5 p.m.
Poet Christopher Buckley won the 2009 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for his winning manuscript, Rolling the Bones. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry for 2007-2008, and received the James Dickey Prize for 2008. He has also been the recipient of a Fulbright Award in Creative Writing to the former Yugoslavia, four Pushcart Prizes, two awards from the Poetry Society of America, and two NEA grants in poetry. Tampa Review judges praised Rolling the Bones for its “local identity and global reach” in a manuscript “sensitive to political, economic, spiritual, and philosophical nuance.”
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