Converse College Low Residency MFA
January Residency Public Readings and Lectures
The following events are free and open to the public. Events
take place at the Spartanburg Marriott & Conference Center in the Dogwood
Room.
January 1, 8:00 p.m., visiting writer reading by Catherine
Carter, the author of The Swamp Monster at Home, Louisiana State University
Press, 2012, and The Memory of Gills, Louisiana State University Press.
January 2, 4:30 p.m., Fiction Craft Lecture, Leslie
Pietrzyk, “Inch by Inch and Word by Word: Strategies for Revision.”
January 2, 8:00 p.m., Faculty Reading by Suzanne Cleary and
Marlin Barton.
January 3, 10:00 a.m., Nonfiction Craft Lecture, Susan
Tekulve, "Studying the Scribes of Epicurus: What We Can Learn from Those
Who Write Through the Lens of Food."
January 4, 8:00 p.m., Faculty Reading by Susan Tekulve and
John Lane.
January 5, Poetry Craft lecture, Suzanne Cleary, "Risk
and More Risk: Building Better Poems, and Having More Fun Doing So."
January 5, 4:30 p.m., Fiction Craft Lecture, Marlin Barton,
“Reaching the Lyric Register.”
January 5, 8:00 p.m., Faculty Reading, Leslie Pietrzyk and
Brock Clarke.
January 6, 8:00 p.m., Faculty Reading, Rick Mulkey and
Robert Olmstead.
January 7, 4:30 p.m., Craft Lecture,“The View from an
Editor’s Desk,” Mark Drew, Associate Editor of Gettysburg Review.
January 7, 8:00 p.m., Faculty Reading, Richard Tillinghast
and Elizabeth Cox.
January 8, 4:30 p.m., Craft Lecture with Atlantic Monthly
Fiction Editor, C. Michael Curtis.
