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The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing
Spring 2007 Distinguished Visiting Writers Series

Please join us for an evening with

Lee Gutkind

Distinguished Visiting Writer-in-Residence

Monday, April 9, 2007

Private Reception at 6:30pm
Reading at 7:30pm
Booksigning will follow reading. Seating is limited, so please arrive early.

ASU University Club
Please r.s.v.p. to (480) 965-6018 by Friday, March 30, 2007.

 

Please also join Mr. Gutkind at the following informal Q & A sessions at the Piper Writers House.

Thursday, March 29 from Noon to 1:00 p.m.
“The Personal and the Public: Writing About Something Other than Myself”

Tuesday, April 17 from Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Tom Wayman, Distinguished Visiting Canadian Fulbright Chair in Creative Writing,
will join Lee Gutkind to lead the discussion.
“Editing Anthologies”

Tuesday, April 19 from Noon to 1:00 p.m.
“A Million Little Choices: Ethics and Approaches in Creative Nonfiction”

Light refreshments will be served at the Q & A Sessions.

 

Lee Gutkind is founder and editor of the popular journal, Creative Nonfiction, the first and largest literary journal to publish nonfiction exclusively. His new memoir, Forever Fat: Essays by the Godfather, was partially inspired by a Vanity Fair article pinpointing Gutkind as the “godfather behind creative nonfiction.” Gutkind is a former director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh and currently a professor of English. His most recent publication is Almost Human: Making Robots Think.

 

Click here to view the list of Distinguished Visiting Writers Series events for Spring 2007.
Click here to visit Lee Gutkind's website.


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