For well over a decade, the Mary Louise White Visiting Writers Series has created a vibrant community providing access to celebrated authors from around the country right here in Western New York, that are always free and open to the public.
September 2022: Allegra Hyde, author of Eleutheria
November 2022: Adam Clay, author of To Make Room For The Sea
Previous Guests Include:
Deborah Ager, Steve Almond, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz, Dean Bakopoulos, Matt Bell, Mary Biddinger, L. Annette Binder, Jamel Brinkley, Jericho Brown, Nick Carbo, George David Clark, Eduardo C. Corral, Eugene Cross, Mike Czyzniejewski, Jim Daniels, Edwidge Danticat, Meg Day, Ben Drevlow, Denise Duhamel, Noah Falck, Daisy Fried, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Sarah Gambito, Ross Gay, Matthea Harvey, C.J. Hauser, Caitlin Horrocks, Tyehimba Jess, Allison Joseph, Ilya Kaminsky, Aryn Kyle, Joseph O. Legaspi, Shara McCallum, Jeffrey McDaniel, Karyna McGlynn, Rachel McKibbens, John McNally, Erika Meitner, John Murillo, Naomi Shihab Nye, Matthew Olzmann, Oliver de la Paz, Benjamin Percy, Bill Roorbach, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Patrick Rosal, Karen Russell, Ethan Rutherford, Matthew Salesses, Aisha Sabatini Sloan, Patrick Somerville, Ira Sukrungruang, Barrett Swanson, Lara Tupper, Carolyn Turgeon, Brian Turner, Anne Valente, Laura van den Berg, Gabriel Welsch, and Fredonia's very own Jillian Hanesworth, Christina Olson, and Michelle Whittaker!
February 2022: Aisha Sabatini Sloan, author of Captioning the Archives
March 2022: Barrett Swanson, author of Lost in Summerland
April 2022: Jillian Hanesworth, Fredonia alumna and poet laureate of Buffalo
Fall 2021 MLW Visiting Writers Series
Sept. 29-30, 2021, 7 pm: Lara Tupper (craft talk, fiction reading)
Nov. 3-4, 2021, 7 pm: Matthew Salesses ( craft talk, fiction reading)
Spring 2021 MLW Visiting Writers Series
April 7-8: Meg Day (craft talk, poetry reading)
March 10-11: Laura van den Berg (craft talk, fiction reading)
Fall 2020 MLW Visiting Writers Series
October 14-15: Matt Bell, Craft Talk and Fiction Reading
September 23-24: Noah Falck, Craft Talk and Poetry Reading
Out of an abundance of caution, we cancelled all remaining Fredonia English events for Spring 2020 in mid-March. Fortunately we were able to reschedule Meg Day for Spring 2021.
Spring 2020 MLW Visiting Writers Series and Convocation Welcome Meg Day
Fall 2019 MLW Visiting Writers Series and Convocation Welcome Jamel Brinkley
Spring 2019 MLW Visiting Writers Series Welcomes
Michelle Whittaker (Stony Brook University), author of Surge
Fall 2018 MLW Visiting Writers Series Welcomes
Anne Valente, author of Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (novel) and By the Light We Knew Our Names (stories)
Spring 2018 MLW Visiting Writers Series Welcomes
George David Clark (poet [Reveille] and editor [32 Poems])
Fall 2017 MLW Visiting Writers Series Welcomes
CJ Hauser, author of the 2014 novel The From-Aways
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