Spring 2009

Click for directions to the Auditorium Building (AUD) or the Gage Building.

Wednesday, Jan 21

5:00pm-7:30pm Gage Gallery

New Grad Student Orientation

Monday, Jan 26

Spring Classes Begin

Sunday, Feb 1

Our very own Scott Blackwood's AWP Award-winning novel, We Agreed To Meet Just Here, will be released

Wednesday, Feb 11 through Saturday, Feb 14

AWP 2009 Conference in Chicago (Sponsored in part by Roosevelt's MFA program)

Full Conference Schedule

Wednesday, Feb 11

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Kathryn Lang, Senior Editor of SMU Press

Discussion, Q&A

Wednesday, Feb 11

6:00pm-9:00pm AUD Congress Lounge

AWP: Drunken Boat Open House
Featuring A Public Space, Action Books, Circumference, Drunken Boat, Jubilat, and Words Without Borders

Friday, Feb 13

8:30pm-12:00am Gage Gallery

AWP: Scott Blackwood's novel release reading and reception.

Friday, Feb 13

5:00pm-6:00pm Gage Gallery

AWP: Many Mountains Moving Press reading

Authors include Anne-Marie Cusac, Patrick Lawler, and Jeffrey Ethan Lee

Friday, Feb 13

6:00pm-8:00pm AUD 244

AWP: Autumn House book release and reading for When She Named Fire
Edited by Andrea Hollander Budy

Saturday, Feb 14

7:00pm Ganz Hall, Auditorium Building, 7th Floor

AWP: Reception for Fence Magazine

Monday, Feb 16

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Janet Burroway, author of eight novels and Writing Fiction
Reading, Q&A, and guest workshop

Tuesday, Feb 17

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Susan Briante, poet and author of Pioneers in the Study of Motion

Reading, Q&A, and guest workshop

Monday, Feb 23

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

David McGlynn, editor, short fiction writer, and author of The End of the Straight and Narrow

Reading, Q&A, and guest workshop

Monday, Mar 9

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Lisa Stolley, Frank Rogaczewski

Faculty reading

Tuesday, Mar 10

2:00pm-4:30pm, AUD 514

Yaphet Smith, screenwriter for Disney, Spike Lee

Guest workshop

Monday, Mar 30

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Lori Rader Day, James Burford

Graduation reading

Friday, Apr 3

7:00pm-8:00pm Quimby's Bookstore

Oyez Review Reading (featuring contributors)

Wednesday, Apr 8

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Miles Harvey, journalist and author of The Island of Lost Maps

Reading, Q&A, and guest workshop

Monday, Apr 13

6:00pm-7:00pm AUD 308

"The Writer's Life" Seminar

Scott Blackwood and Lori Rader Day on publications, queries, and CV's

Tuesday, Apr 14
5:00pm-6:00pm AUD 244
Graduation Reading
Kelly Hunt and Danny diCrispino

Monday, Apr 20

5:00pm-6:30pm AUD 244

Don Pollock, author of Knockemstiff

Reading, Q&A, and guest workshop

Wednesday, Apr 22

5:00pm-6:00pm Roosevelt Library

Oyez Review Reading

Featuring contributors H. Anne Stoj and Patrick Carr

Friday, May 1

7:00pm The Book Cellar

End of the Semester Reading

Featuring work from our graduate students