Events
Events
The New Writers Project hosts and co-hosts an array of literary events, from open-to-the-public poetry and fiction readings to small Q&A's with authors and students. Recent guests include Jericho Brown, Maggie Nelson, George Saunders, Kazim Ali, Ann Patchett, Ada Limón, Paul Lisicky, Srikanth Reddy, Jeff Vandermeer, Evie Shockley, Kelly Link, Eula Biss, Matthew Zapruder, Kiese Laymon, Lucy Corin, Nikky Finney, Andrea Lawlor, Jennifer Chang, Brenda Shaughnessy, Rachel Zucker, Max Porter, Leni Zumas, and Lydia Davis.
With the Michener Center for Writers, we host a yearly symposium of editors and agents for our creative writing students.
Other past events can be found on our Facebook page.
A wide range of other literary events are sponsored by other UT departments, centers, and organizations, and Austin itself has a varied and excellent literary arts scene, which includes a number of independent book stores—BookPeople, Malvern Books, and BookWoman among them—and the enormous, lively, and free-to-the-public Texas Book Festival, one of the longest-running book festivals in the country.
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The NWP hosts a public reading series featuring our MFA students, with one reading per cohort each year. The series, held at the local independent bookstore Alienated Majesty Books, provides students with valuable experience presenting their work in public and enhances the visibility of our writers.
Our program works with multiple units on campus, including the Joynes Reading Room, the Plan II Honors program, and the Michener Center for Writers, to co-host literary and professional development events throughout the year. Our students have access to Author Q&A events, readings, and professional development workshops hosted by the Michener Center. As well, in concert with the Michener Center, we co-host an annual Agents and Editors Week, during which students meet with literary agents or editors in their genre who have reviewed a sample of their work.
A wide range of other literary events are sponsored by other UT departments, centers, and organizations, and Austin itself has a varied and excellent literary arts scene.
The New Writers Project hosts and co-hosts an array of literary events, from open-to-the-public poetry and fiction readings to small Q&A's with authors and students. Recent guests include Jericho Brown, Maggie Nelson, George Saunders, Kazim Ali, Ann Patchett, Ada Limón, Paul Lisicky, Srikanth Reddy, Jeff Vandermeer, Evie Shockley, Kelly Link, Eula Biss, Matthew Zapruder, Kiese Laymon, Lucy Corin, Nikky Finney, Andrea Lawlor, Jennifer Chang, Brenda Shaughnessy, Rachel Zucker, Max Porter, Leni Zumas, and Lydia Davis.
With the Michener Center for Writers, we host a yearly symposium of editors and agents for our creative writing students. A wide range of other literary events are sponsored by other UT departments, centers, and organizations, and Austin itself has a varied and excellent literary arts scene,.