Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival set for Nov. 6-7
FLORENCE – The Ninth annual Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival at Francis Marion University will bring to campus four award-winning authors on Nov. 6 and 7. The two-day festival will celebrate the works of Megan Abbott, Ron Carlson, Denise Duhamel, and Tim Seibles.
The event is held in Cauthen Educational Media Center’s Lowrimore Auditorium and all sessions are free and open to the public. The Festival features writers paired together in panel discussions during the morning sessions, and Individual authors in readings and discussions in the afternoon and evening. Books by the authors can be purchased at the venue. Book signings follow the evening events. A reception at The Cottage at FMU with the writers will cap each evening.
This year’s authors represent varying voices in poetry and fiction, says FMU faculty chair and English Professor Rebecca Flannagan. Flannagan co-chairs the event’s organizing committee, along with Dr. Jo Angela Edwins, also of FMU’s English Department.
“This year’s authors look at the world through a variety of lenses,” says Flannagan. “Some of the authors share commonalities, but the Festival strives to showcase various ways of looking at the world through writing.”
The Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival originated in 2006 as the Pee Dee Fiction Festival, the brainchild of FMU President Dr. Fred Carter. The festival has expanded to include poets as well as fiction writers. Notable participating authors have included Andre Dubus III, National Book award winter Terrance Hayes, former Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey, Tobias Wolff, and others.
To learn more about the Pee Dee Fiction & Poetry Festival, go to www.peedeefiction.org.
2014 Pee Dee Fiction and Poetry Festival
Authors at a Glance
Megan Abbott
Abbott is the Edgar Award-winning author of seven novels, including Dare Me, The End of Everything and her latest, The Fever, which was chosen as one of the Best Books of the Summer by the New York Times,People, Entertainment Weekly, Amazon and the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have been in many anthologies, such as Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year and the Best American Mystery Stories of 2014. She is also the author of The Street Was Mine, a study of hardboiled fiction and film noir. She has been nominated for awards including the Shirley Jackson Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the Hammett Prize. She lives in Queens, New York.
Ron Carlson
Carlson’s newest novel is Return to Oakpine. His short stories have appeared in Esquire, Harpers, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, and other journals, as well as The Best American Short Stories, The O'Henry Prize Series, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction and other anthologies; they have been performed on National Public Radio’s “This American Life” and “Selected Shorts.” Ron Carlson Writes a Story, his book on writing, is taught widely. He is the author of two books of poems, Room Service and The Blue Box. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Cohen Prize at Ploughshares, the McGinnis Award at the Iowa Review, the Aspen Literary Award; and his novel Five Skies was one of the 2009 Reading Across Rhode Island selections. Carlson is the director of the Graduate Program in Fiction at the University of California, Irvine.
Denise Duhamel
Duhamel's most recent book of poetry Blowout (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of a 2014 Paterson Poetry Prize. Her other books include Ka-Ching! (Pittsburgh, 2009), Two and Two (Pittsburgh, 2005), and Queen for a Day: Selected and New Poems (Pittsburgh, 2001). The guest editor for The Best American Poetry 2013, she is a professor at Florida International University in Miami. Duhamel’s honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work has been included in several volumes of Best American Poetry, and has also been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered and Bill Moyers’s PBS poetry special “Fooling with Words”.
Tim Seibles
Seibles is the author of several poetry collections including Hurdy-Gurdy, Hammerlock, and Buffalo Head Solos. His first book, Body Moves, (1988) has just been re-released by Carnegie Mellon U. Press as part of their Contemporary Classics series. His latest, Fast Animal, was one of five poetry finalists for the 2012 National Book Award. In 2013, he received the Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award for poetry and received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Misericordia University for his literary accomplishments. Most recently, he received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award for Fast Animal, given triennially for a collection of poems. During the spring semester of 2010, Tim was poet-in-residence at Bucknell University. A National Endowment for the Arts fellow, he also enjoyed a seven-month writing fellowship from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center in Massachusetts. His poetry is featured in several anthologies; among them are: Rainbow Darkness; The Manthology; Autumn House Contemporary American Poetry; Black Nature; Evensong; Villanelles; and Sunken Garden Poetry. His poem, "Allison Wolff" was included in Best American Poetry 2010 and, most recently, his poem "Sotto Voce: Othello, Unplugged" was featured in Best American Poetry 2013. Seibles is visiting faculty at the Stonecoast MFA in Writing Program sponsored by the University of Southern Maine. He lives in Norfolk, Va., where he is a member of the English and MFA in writing faculty at Old Dominion University.
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