When:
Monday, Jan 07, 2019 6:30p -
8:30p

Where:
Marran Theater
34 Mellen Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

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Admission:
FREE

Categories:
Lectures & Conferences, Sports & Active Life, University

Event website:
https://lesley.edu/news/renee-watson-headlines-winter-evening-reading-series

Lesley University’s winter evening reading series will bring a variety of acclaimed authors to campus from Jan. 4 through Jan. 12 at Marran Theater, 34 Mellen St., Cambridge. All readings are free and open to the public.
Visiting author Renée Watson will headline the annual series. Eight of our faculty authors from the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing low-residency program will also read from their work in nonfiction, poetry, fiction, writing for stage and screen and writing for young people.


Faculty and visiting writer books are available for sale after each reading. The series concludes with three evenings of graduating student readings.


The full schedule is as follows:


Friday, Jan. 4 at 5 p.m.
Steven Cramer, poetry
Laurie Foos, fiction


Saturday, Jan. 5 at 6:30 p.m.
Renée Watson, guest reader, writing for young people


Sunday, Jan. 6 at 7 p.m.
Stephen Haven, poetry
Kate Snodgrass, stage and screen


Monday, Jan. 7 at 6:30 p.m.
Danielle Legros Georges, poetry
Chris Lynch, writing for young people


Wednesday, Jan. 9 at 7 p.m.
Jane Brox, nonfiction
Jason Reynolds, writing for young people


Thursday, Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m. | Graduating Student Readings
Kyle Gregory, Rhiannon Houch, Jennifer Kudelka, Abigail C.K. Lill, Rahima Rice


Friday, Jan. 11 at 6:30 p.m. | Graduating Student Readings
Paul Astorino, Michelle Boland, John Doole, Kristina Fedeczko, Gabriella Irwin, Linda Kaufman, Elizabeth Rose


Saturday, Jan. 12 at 3:00 p.m. | Graduating Student Readings
Delyn Arey, Jo-Anne Hart, Livia Hermiz, Mundy McLaughlin, Liz Shick


Our MFA in Creative Writing holds two residencies per year, in January and June. Each residency offers a wide range of MFA faculty readings representing the program's literary genres as well as other acclaimed visiting writers.

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