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Two of the city’s up-and-coming wordsmiths will showcase their talents during a special edition of the University of Houston’s Poetry and Prose Reading Series. Recipients of the 2005 Inprint/Michener Fellowships in Honor of Donald Barthelme will read their works at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, March 9, in the University of Houston Honors College Commons on the second floor of the M.D. Anderson Library. Admission is free and complimentary refreshments will be served. The fellowship recipients are UH creative writing doctoral students, poet Jennifer Grotz and fiction writer Gemini Wahhaj. Fellowships each carry a stipend of $10,000 funded by contributions from James Michener, the famed author who died in 1997, and Inprint, Inc., Houston’s non-profit literary organization. The fellowships are dedicated to the memory of former UH creative writing professor and noted author Donald Barthelme. “This fellowship came at a time when I really needed validation to keep working on my fiction,” said Wahhaj. “It helped me focus on finishing my novel.” Wahhaj will read her short story, “Construction,” while Grotz is expected to read selections from a new manuscript. In 2003, Houghton Mifflin published Grotz’s first book of poems, “Cusp.” The Poetry and Prose Reading Series is coordinated by UH Libraries
with cooperation from UH’s Creative Writing Department and
The Honors College. Poetry and Prose readings are held three times
a semester.
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