Hutton Honors College

Writers on Writing
Monday, Feb. 19, 2007 * 7-8:30 p.m. * SoFA Gallery, Fine Arts Bldg. * RSVP requested

The Succinct Saga Society, Labyrinth literary magazine, and the HHC are co-hosting an interactive panel discussion and reception with authors enthusiastic about sharing their reflections on the struggles and rewards of the writing life. The participants include

Mystery writer Michael Koryta, whose first novel, Tonight I Said Goodbye, was written when he was just 20, was published when he was 21, and in 2003 won St. Martin’s Press/Private Eye Writers of America “Best First Private Eye Novel” contest, making Koryta the youngest winner in the history of the competition. The mystery also earned an Edgar nomination for the best first novel and won the Great Lakes Book Award for Best Mystery. Inspired by the detective fiction of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammet, Koryta has published a second mystery, Anthem’s Sorrow, featuring his Lincoln Perry character and is at work on a third.

Maurice Manning, whose first book of poetry, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, received the 2000 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, the longest-running poetry prize in the United States. His second collection, A Companion for Owls: Being the Commonplace Book of D. Boone, Long Hunter, Back Woodsman, etc., was published in 2004, and his poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including The New Yorker, The Southern Review, Washington Square, and others. A native of Kentucky, he is a professor in the IU Creative Writing Department.

Paul Shoulberg, an up-and-coming playwright in the M.F.A. playwriting program at IU, who wrote the hit show Reel that debuted on the IU Bloomington campus in December and will be performed at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival this month. His other works, which include Bicentennial Babies, Privilege, and Tweaked, have been performed or had readings in and beyond Bloomington in the past several years. Shoulberg describes his work as “theatre for the indie-film crowds.”

All IU students are welcome to this gathering of impressive creative talent.
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to laby at indiana dot edu.

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