The Department of Writing is excited to announce its final Handwerker Reading of the semester, which will take place on Tuesday, December 6th, at 6:00pm in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center). The Department of Writing is excited to announce its final Handwerker Reading of the semester, which will take place on Tuesday, December 6th, at 6:00pm in the Handwerker Gallery (Gannett Center).
Tuesday's reading will feature one of IC's own Writing alumni, Zachary Tyler Vickers, reading alongside his former Department of Writing professor, Katharyn Howd Machan.
After completing his Writing major at IC in 2006, Zachary Tyler Vickers attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, considered by many as the most prestigious creative writing program in the country, and has just this year published a wild and inventive collection of short stories,Congratulations on Your Martyrdom!, which George Saunders has called "a debut full of heart and energy by an intense, fervent writer whose dedication shows in every line."
Read Hobart's interview with Zachary here.
And check out Zachary's fierce fiction here, here, here, and elsewhere.
Zachary will offer a Q & A after the reading. This is an exciting opportunity for IC student writers to learn what the next stage in their writing life might look like.
For three and a half decades Katharyn Howd Machan, picking up where Rod Serling left off, has taught creative writing at Ithaca College in the Finger Lakes region of New York State. Her specialty courses, besides in poetry, are Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy, Women and Fairy Tales, and first-year seminars called Fairy Tales: The Hero’s Journey. Her poems have appeared in 32 published collections (most recently WILD GRAPES: POEMS OF FOX [a kitsune shape-shifter] and many magazines, anthologies, and textbooks. What better way to celebrate the end of this very long semester and very long year? We hope you will join us.
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations should contact Jacob White at jrwhite@ithaca.edu or (904) 501-9860. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
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