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Event:
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GLCA Writer Reads from Award Winning Collection at Albion College
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Date:
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Friday, February 12th, 2010
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Time:
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4:00 PM
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Organization:
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Albion College |
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Location:
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Olin Hall
enter the East Erie Street driveway, 50 feet west
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Cost:
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Free
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Contact:
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English Department
Phone: 517/629-0232
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Description:
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Don Waters, recipient of the Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award in fiction and a Lannan Foundation writing fellowship, as well as other honors, will grace Albion with a reading from his story collection, Desert Gothic, on Friday, Feb. 12, at 4 p.m. The reading will take place in room 112 in Olin.
Desert Gothic won the Iowa Short Fiction Award. Stories from the collection have been anthologized in Pushcart Prize XXXIII and Best of the West 2009. His recent essays and book reviews have appeared in Tin House, The Believer, High Country News, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the New York Times Book Review.
Waters was born and raised in Reno, Nevada, and now lives in New Mexico with his partner, author Robin Romm.
The Great Lakes Colleges Association is a consortium of private liberal arts colleges including Albion, Antioch, Denison, DePauw, Earlham, Hope, Kalamazoo, Kenyon, Oberlin, Ohio Wesleyan and Wabash Colleges and the College of Wooster. GLCA awards and programs both support excellent scholars and artists, as well as enhance the educational activities of its member colleges.
This event is free and open to the public, and sponsored by the English Department and the Stockwell-Mudd Library. For more information, please contact the English Department at 517/629-0232.
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More Info:
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http://www.albion.edu/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1102
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Categories:
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College, Library
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