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SUMMARY:Writers For Readers
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the inaugural Writers for Readers event\, an evening celebrating the power of expression\n\nthrough creative writing and reading. Sponsors and attendees will meet and mingle during a reception\n\nand seated dinner\, and enjoy a program featuring acclaimed authors Edmund White and Michael Carroll.\n\nEdmund White is the author of more than 26 books\, including novels\, memoirs and biographies.\n\nHe will be speaking about Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris\, which describes his 15-year sojourn as an\n\nexpatriate in the City of Lights. His biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Award in 1994\n\nand his memoir City Boy was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. His trio of\n\nautobiographic novels\, A Boy's Own Story (1982)\, The Beautiful Room is Empty (1988)\, and\n\nThe Farewell Symphony (1997) are internationally renowned. Currently a Professor of Creative Writing\n\nat Princeton University\, he has won a Guggenheim Award and is a member of the Academy of Arts\n\nand Letters. He will appear with his husband\, the writer Michael Carroll\, whose short story collection\n\nLittle Reef won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction in 2015.\n\nProceeds benefit Writers for Readers\, a collaborative partnership between Literacy Kansas City and\n\nUMKC's Creative Writing Program. This innovative program will employ Creative Writing graduate\n\nstudents to create\, implement\, and teach creative writing to teens and adults enrolled in Literacy\n\nKansas City's Ticket to Read programs throughout the metro.\n\nThis is a ticketed event. To purchase tickets and RSVP\, please visit www.LiteracyKC.org
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:You are invited to the inaugural <strong>Writers for Readers</strong> event\, an evening celebrating the power of expression<br />\nthrough creative writing and reading. Sponsors and attendees will meet and mingle during a reception<br />\nand seated dinner\, and enjoy a program featuring acclaimed authors <strong>Edmund White</strong> and <strong>Michael Carroll.</strong><br />\n<strong>Edmund White</strong> is the author of more than 26 books\, including novels\, memoirs and biographies.<br />\nHe will be speaking about Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris\, which describes his 15-year sojourn as an<br />\nexpatriate in the City of Lights. His biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Award in 1994<br />\nand his memoir City Boy was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. His trio of<br />\nautobiographic novels\, A Boy&rsquo\;s Own Story (1982)\, The Beautiful Room is Empty (1988)\, and<br />\nThe Farewell Symphony (1997) are internationally renowned. Currently a Professor of Creative Writing<br />\nat Princeton University\, he has won a Guggenheim Award and is a member of the Academy of Arts<br />\nand Letters. He will appear with his husband\, the writer <strong>Michael Carroll</strong>\, whose short story collection<br />\nLittle Reef won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction in 2015.<br />\nProceeds benefit Writers for Readers\, a collaborative partnership between Literacy Kansas City and<br />\nUMKC&rsquo\;s Creative Writing Program. This innovative program will employ Creative Writing graduate<br />\nstudents to create\, implement\, and teach creative writing to teens and adults enrolled in Literacy<br />\nKansas City&rsquo\;s Ticket to Read programs throughout the metro.<br />\n<strong>This is a ticketed event.</strong> To purchase tickets and RSVP\, please visit www.LiteracyKC.org
LOCATION:Kansas City Public Library\, central branch\, 14 W. 10th St.\, KCMO
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DTSTAMP:20260410T155416Z
URL:http://business.midamericalgbt.org/events/details/writers-for-readers-11-12-2015-998
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