RISING LITERARY STARS TAKE CENTER STAGE
AT POETRY AND PROSE
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.
WHAT: |
Poetry and Prose Reading Series: Inprint/Michener
Fellowship in Honor of Donald Barthelme recipients Jennifer
Grotz and Gemini Wahhaj |
WHEN: |
6 p.m. Wednesday, March 9 |
WHERE: |
Honors College Commons , M.D. Anderson Library, second floor,
Entrance 1 |
WHO: |
University of Houston |
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