November Festival Hosts Up-and-Coming Fiction Writers

The University of Cincinnati’s Department of English will host an Emerging Fiction Writers Festival from Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 5-7. The festival will feature readings and panel discussions by five of the most dynamic, promising fiction writers at work today in the United States.

Heidi Julavits, Josh Russell, Victor LaValle, Alix Ohlin and Keith Morris are among the authors who will make presentations during the Emerging Fiction Writers Festival. (See detailed bios).

The event has been organized by Brock Clarke and Michael Griffith, both assistant professors of English in UC's McMicken College of Arts and Sciences. Clarke himself is a relatively new author, with two recent books – What We Won’t Do: Stories, a collection, and The Ordinary White Boy, a novel. Griffith, also a new author, is the author of Bibliophilia: A Novella and Other Stories and Spikes: A Novel.

All events are free and open to the public:

Wednesday, Nov. 5

7 p.m.

Note new location:

Room 755, Baldwin Hall

(moved from Room 427, auditorium, Engineering Research Center)

Heidi Julavits and Josh Russell read from their fiction.

Thursday, Nov. 6

7 p.m., Room 427, Engineering Research Center

Victor LaValle, Alix Ohlin and Keith Morris will be reading from their fiction.

Thursday, Nov. 6
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Elliston Room, Langsam Library
Panel discussion featuring all five writers, moderated by Michael Griffith and Brock Clarke.

Friday, Nov. 7
11 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Elliston Room, Langsam Library
Panel discussion featuring all five writers, moderated by Michael Griffith and Brock Clarke.

Suggested parking: Langsam Library Garage or CBA Garage.
More information: clarkeba@email.uc.edu or call Brock Clarke at 513-556-0924.