Spalding University’s Festival of Contemporary Writing, the state’s largest fall-spring reading series, will be held November 14-20, featuring free readings by faculty, guests, and alumni of Spalding University’s brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing program. The events will be held at Spalding’s Egan Leadership Center (ELC) lectorium, located at the corner of Fourth and Breckinridge streets, except where noted. Plenty of free parking is available nearby. Authors may or may not read from the work listed below.

Sunday, November 14, 7:30 p.m. (ELC)

• Silas House (fiction), Eli the Good
• Lesléa Newman (writing for children & young adults), Just Like Mama
• John Pipkin (fiction), Woodsburner
• Helena Kriel (screenwriting), Skin
• Kira Obolensky (playwriting; fiction), Raskol
• Greg Pape (poetry), American Flamingo
• Louella Bryant (fiction; creative nonfiction), Full Bloom; While in Darkness There Is Light

Monday, November 15, 5:30 p.m. Celebration of Recently Published Books. (Secretariat Room, 1^st floor, Brown Hotel, 335 W. Broadway)

• Neela Vaswani (creative nonfiction), You Have Given Me a Country
• Susan Campbell Bartoletti (writing for children & young adults), They Called Themselves the K.K.K: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group
• Richard Goodman (creative nonfiction), A New York Memoir
• Sena Jeter Naslund (fiction), Adam & Eve

Book signing to follow. Books provided by Carmichael’s.

Tuesday, November 16, 7:30 p.m. (ELC)

• Rachel Harper (fiction), Brass Ankle Blues
• Sam Zalutsky (screenwriting), You Belong to Me
• Nancy McCabe (creative nonfiction), After the Flashlight Man: A Memoir of Awakening
• Molly Peacock (poetry), The Second Blush
• Robin Lippincott (fiction), In the Meantime
• Joyce McDonald (writing for children & young adults), Devil on My Heels

Wednesday, November 17, 5:15 p.m. (ELC)

• Dianne Aprile (creative nonfiction), The Eye Is Not Enough: On Seeing and Remembering
• Brad Riddell (screenwriting), The Plebe
• Maureen Morehead (poetry), The Melancholy Teacher
• Julie Brickman (fiction), What Birds Can Only Whisper
• Eric Schmiedl (playwriting), Browns Rules
• Jeanie Thompson (poetry), The Seasons Bear Us

Thursday, November 18, 7:00 p.m. Featured Author (Louisville Free Public Library, 301 York St.)

• Barry Lopez, author of Arctic Dreams

Event sold out; limited standby seating may be available for non-ticketed patrons at the start of the program. Book signing to follow. Books provided by Barnes and Noble.

Friday, November 19, 5:00 p.m. (ELC)

• Robert Finch (creative nonfiction), The Iambics of Newfoundland: Notes from an Unknown Shore
• Jody Lisberger (fiction), Remember Love
• Debra Kang Dean (poetry), Precipitates
• Charlie Schulman (playwriting, screenwriting), Character Assassins
• Eleanor Morse (fiction), An Unexpected Forest
• Kathleen Driskell (poetry), Seed Across Snow

Saturday, November 20, 2:45 p.m. Reading by MFA Alumni from Works in Progress (ELC)

• Amina McIntyre, Travis Megill, Katerina Stoykova-Klemer, Nancy Jo Cegla, Tina Clemons

The reading schedule may change without notice. Check the website for updated information: www.spalding.edu/mfa. For more information, call (502) 585-9911, ext. 2423 or (800) 896-8941, ext. 2423 or email mfa@spalding.edu.

Spalding’s four-semester, brief-residency MFA in Writing combines superb instruction with unparalleled flexibility. The Program offers concentrations in fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children and young adults, screenwriting, and playwriting. Students begin the semester in the spring, summer, or fall with a 10-day residency in Louisville or abroad, then return home to study by correspondence one-on-one with a faculty mentor for the rest of the semester. Students may customize the location, season, and pace of their studies. See www.spalding.edu/mfa for more information.

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