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Type:

Reading Venue

Website:

https://www.usm.edu/writers/visiting-writers-series.php [2]

Phone:

(601) 266-5211

E-mail:

adam.clay@usm.edu [3]

For over forty years, The Center for Writers at USM has brought internationally acclaimed authors of poetry and fiction to Hattiesburg and the USM community for public readings, workshops, and individual conferences with Center graduate students.

Over a long history, and with the generous support of the university, the College of Arts and Letters, private donors, and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Visiting Writers Series has always brought to campus a mix of well-established and new writers, with the idea that each serves the students in a unique way and that exposure to different aesthetics and styles is vital to learning the art.

Genre:

Poetry [4], Fiction [5], Creative Nonfiction [6]

Event types:

Reading [7]

Visiting Writers Series

Representative readers:

Lee K. Abbott, Toni Cade Bambara, Russell Banks, John Barth, Frank Bidart, Robert Olen Butler, Raymond Carver, Angela Carter, Robert Coover, John Dufresne, Richard Ford, Tess Gallagher, William Gass, Barry Hannah, John Hawkes, Lynda Hull, Hugh Kenner, Galway Kinnell, Kenneth Koch, Larry McMurtry, W.S. Merwin, Edna O’Brien, Charles Simic, W.D. Snodgrass, Gerald Stern, Mark Strand, Derek Walcott, Joy Williams, Charles Wright, Ellen Bryant Voigt, Percival Everett, Stuart Dischell, Stephen Dobyns, Lucie Brock-Broido, Francine Prose, Tim O’Brien, Amy Hempel, Padgett Powell, Dana Gioia, Rick Moody, Mary Gaitskill, Kelly Cherry, Bobbie Ann Mason, Diane Williams, Ann Beattie, and Dara Wier

Address:

118 College Drive #5144 347 Liberal Arts Building

Hattiesburg, MS 39406