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 and Gerald Stern.

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.
 

OWENE WEBER

Reading: Jan. 23, 2008 at 7 p.m.

Gamache-Koger Room, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.

Local author Dr. Owene Weber's latest book, Myn Owene Woman, is a collection of curious stories from an adult woman with the soul of Peter Pan.  Taking a backward glance, she brings into play her life from the innocence of childhood to the challenges of maturity. She retired as an Assistant Professor of English at Flagler College. She has lectured and published essays, literary criticism and stories in the United States and in Ireland. Read more here.

DENNIS LEHANE

Reading: Feb. 8, 2008 at 7 p.m.

Flagler College Auditorium

Boston author Dennis Lehane is the author of several award-winning novels, including New York Times best seller Mystic River, which was later made into an Academy Award-winning film. Another of his books, Gone, Baby, Gone, was also recently made into a film starring actors Casey Affleck, Morgan Freeman and Ed Harris. Lehane has also taught fiction writing at several colleges and written play and television scripts for shows like HBO's "The Wire." Read more here.

MARK JARMAN

Reading: Feb. 11, 2008 at 7 p.m.

Gamache-Koger Room, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.

Kentucky-born Mark Jarman is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Questions for Ecclesiastes, which won the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Black Riviera, which won the 1991 Poets' Prize. His poetry and essays have been published widely in such periodicals and journals as American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, Poetry and Southern Review. During the 1980s, he helped found, edit and publish the controversial magazine The Reaper.

CONSTANTINE SANTAS

Reading: Feb. 18, 2008 at 5 p.m.

Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, 48 Sevilla St.

In his latest book, The Epic in Film: From Myth to Blockbuster, Dr. Constantine Santas argues that "blockbuster" and "artistic" are not mutually exclusive terms — and, perhaps more importantly, epic film is an inherently profound genre because of its ability to tap into a nation's, and sometimes humanity's, dreams and fears. Santas published his first film book, Responding to Film, in 2002, and he is currently working on The Art of the Movie and a translation of Homer’s The Odyssey. The author was born in Greece and earned a doctorate in English at Northwestern University. His other publications include translations from Greek authors, a critical biography of Greek poet Aristotelis Valaoritis and various articles on film and aesthetics both in Greek and in English. Santas retired in 2002 as chair of the English Department at Flagler College.

RICK CAMPBELL

Reading: Feb. 28, 2008 at 7 p.m.

Gamache-Koger Room, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.

Florida author Rick Campbell has a forthcoming collection, Dixmont, from Autumn House Press. His other books include The Traveler’s Companion and Setting The World In Order, which won the Walt McDonald Prize. His poems and essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, The Tampa Review, The Florida Review, Southern Poetry Review, Puerto Del Sol, Prairie Schooner and other journals.  Campbell has won an NEA Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize and two fellowships from the Florida Arts Council. He is the director of Anhinga Press and the Anhinga Prize for Poetry, and he teaches English at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, Florida. 

LIZ ROBBINS

Reading: March 12, 2008 at 5 p.m.

Flagler Room, Ponce Hall, 74 King St.

Dr. Liz Robbins' debut collection, Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish, will be published in January 2008. She’s the recipient of the First Coast Writers’ Poetry Award, judged by Robert Bly, and has been nominated for Best New Poets and a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Calyx,  The Chattahoochee Review, The National Poetry Review, Natural Bridge, Potomac Review, Puerto del Sol, Rattle and RHINO, among others. Robbins grew up in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She earned her doctorate in English and creative writing from Georgia State University. She’s an assistant professor of English and creative writing at Flagler College.  

KENT SHAW

Reading: April 9, 2008 at 7 p.m.

Gamache-Koger Room, Flagler College Student Center, 50 Sevilla St.

Kent Shaw won the 2007 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry. Calenture, Shaw's first published collection, has been been praised for its “brilliant and varied use of extended metaphor" and called “a richly textured, innovative, musical, meditative manuscript that rewards repeated readings.” Shaw founded and co-directed Underwood Poetry, a literary nonprofit in St. Louis that prints fine, letterpress broadsides for poets. He has taught beginning and advanced poetry at Washington University, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts degree. His poems have appeared in Cimarron Review, Quarterly West, New Orleans Review, Greensboro Review, American Literary Review, Smartish Pace and others.
 

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