Thank you for your interest in the 2007-2008 Reading Series sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, Creative Writing Program, and Mid-American Review. Unless otherwise noted, readings are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at Prout Chapel. All events are free and open to the public.

Prout Chapel, BGSU Campus

College of Arts & Sciences Visiting Writers are designated by this icon. Click here or on the icon such as this one for biographical information about visiting writers.

23--Welcome to BFAs
30--Prairie Margins Reading

September

6--MFA Reading: Kristina Fairfield (poetry) and Michelle Engberg (fiction)
13--Ron Carlson (visiting fiction writer)
20--MFA Reading: Rocco Lungariello (poetry) and Katherine Lane (fiction)
27--Gary Gildner (visting fiction writer and poet)

October

11--MFA Reading: Brad Modlin (poetry) and Tristan Palmgren (fiction)
18--Judith Mitchell (visiting fiction writer)
25--MFA Reading: Raegen Pietrucha (poetry) and Debra Nicholson (fiction)

November

1--MFA Reading: Qiana Towns (poetry) and Priscilla Wysong (fiction)
8--Winter Wheat
15--BFA Job Talk (Celeste Robertson)
29--BFA Reading, featuring work by Courtney Fillion, Casey Gravelle, and Katherine O'Hara

December

6--BFA Reading, featuring work by Adam Barber, Alexander Dausch, Matt Jurak, and Ashley Murello

January 2008

10--MFA Reading: Chris Bloomfield (poetry) and Megan Ayers-Vidmar (fiction)
17--MFA Reading: Garvice Brannon (poetry) and Joseph Celizic (fiction)
24--Tony Barnstone, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer
31--AWP Conference

February

7--MFA Reading: Angela Gentry (poetry) and Dustin Hoffman (fiction)
14--Open Mike
21–-MFA Reading: David Williams (poetry) and Brandon Jennings (fiction)
28--Lecture by Tony Barnstone, Arts and Sciences Distinguished Visiting Writer

March

13--MFA Reading: Thomas Schaefer (poetry) and Aimee Pogson (fiction)
20--Martha Collins (visiting poet)
27--Sharona Muir (faculty writer)

April

3--Alicia Conroy (alumni writer)
10--BFA Reading, featuring work by Charlotte Bohnett, Liz Clark, Courtney Phelps, and Beth Plotts
17--BFA Reading, featuring work by Ryan Gannon, Emily McWatters, Ryan Swenar, and Alexander York
24--BFA Reading, featuring work by Jessica Behrendson, Erick Carlson, Maria Hummer, James Longley, and Jeff Smith