The Creative Writing Program invites you to join us on Thursday, November 11 t 6:30 PM for our Creative Sustenance Reading featuring poet V. Penelope Pelizzon and fiction writer P. Djèlí Clark.
**This event is a benefit for the Covenant Soup Kitchen in Willimantic. Audience members are invited to make a donation after the reading.**
Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program.
V. Penelope Pelizzon is the author of two full length books of poems Whose Flesh is Flame, Whose Bone is Time (2014) and Nostos (2000) which won the Hollis Summers Prize and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. She is the co-author of Tabloid, Inc: Crimes, Newspapers, Narratives (2010), a study of the relations among American sensation journalism, photography, and film from 1927-1958. Her awards include a 2019 Hawthornden Fellowship, a 2012 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, the 2012 Center for Book Arts chapbook award, and a “Discovery”/The Nation Award. She is a Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.
P. Djèlí Clark is the nom de plume of the science fiction writer and historian Dexter Gabriel, who is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. He is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel A Master of Djinn (2021), and the novellas Ring Shout (2020), The Black God’s Drums (2018), and The Haunting of Tram Car 015 (2019). His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.
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Donate: https://gofund.me/317b29e9
For more information, contact: Julia Brush, English Dept. at julia.brush@uconn.edu