From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Mon Oct 05 2009 - 08:28:15 EDT
Don Waters, Aracelis Girmay headline Visiting Writer Series at Hope .
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By Staff reports
The Holland Sentinel
Posted Oct 01, 2009 @ 05:25 PM
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Holland, MI — .Don Waters’s fiction has won awards; so has Aracelis Girmay’s
poetry. Both writers will speak Monday, Oct. 12, at Knickerbocker Theatre,
hosted by the Jack Ridl Visiting Writer Series.
The writers will also answer questions during a workshop at 3 p.m. Monday,
in the Herrick Room of the DeWitt Center, 141 E. 12th St. (facing Columbia
Avenue at 12th Street).
The public is invited to both events. Admission is free.
Waters short-story collection “Desert Gothic,” won the 2009 Great Lakes
College Association (GLCA) New Writers Award and the Iowa Short Fiction
Award. The Reno, Nev., native received several fellowships and other honors,
including the Pushcart Prize and the Silver Pen Award from the Nevada
Writers Hall of Fame.
Girmay, winner of the 2009 GLCA New Writers Award for “Teeth,” a collection
of poetry that reflects her Eritrean, Puerto Rican and African American
traditions, has also written a children’s book, “Changing, Changing: Story
and Collages.” A former Watson fellow and Cave Canem fellow, Girmay has
published extensively in journals and literary magazines. Born and raised in
Southern California, Girmay now leads community writing workshops throughout
California and New York.
The Monday evening reading will be preceded by a Hope College Jazz Ensemble
performance at 6:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre, located at 86 E.
Eighth St.
For details, visit www.hope.edu/vws.
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