Evening Receptions
Each year, the National Day on Writing celebration
culminates with an evening reception that recognizes the finalists
of the NDOW writing contests,
has winning students read excerpts from thier pieces,
and features a reading by a visiting author followed by a book signing.
See our "Contests" page to see students who have been recognized!
2012
Place:
UCEW GS 215
Time: 6:00-7:30
The 2012 reception will recognizes the student finalists and winners of this year's Flash Fiction contests and feature a reading by fiction writer and poet, Barbara Hamby.
In 2010, Barbara Hamby’s book of linked stories, Lester Higata’s 20th Century, won the Iowa Short Fiction Prize/John Simmons Award, and she was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in poetry. She is the author of four books of poetry, most recently All-Night Lingo Tango and Babel. She and her husband, David Kirby, co-edited Seriously Funny, an anthology of poems that are both dramatic and comedic. Her poems have been honored in Best American Poetry numerous times, including five poems in 2010. Born in New York and raised in Hawai’i, Hamby now lives in Tallahassee and teaches creative writing at Florida State University, where she is a Distinguished University Scholar.
2011
Place: UCEW GS 215
Time: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
In celebration of writing, this event will honor the winners of the 2011 NDOW writing contests and feature a reading by noted Cuban novelist Cristina García.
Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was a bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. With four subsequent novels, a poetry collection, and three books for young readers, including her most recent novel, Dreams of Significant Girls, García has firmly established herself as a major American writer with an international reputation. She has received accolades from numerous institutions, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, and her work has been translated into fourteen languages. Born in Havana, but raised in New York, before becoming a full time fiction writer, García was a journalist and Miami Bureau Chief for Time Magazine. She is also the founder and artistic director of Las Dos Brujas Writers' Workshops.
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