Writers For Readers

Description

You are invited to the inaugural Writers for Readers event, an evening celebrating the power of expression
through creative writing and reading. Sponsors and attendees will meet and mingle during a reception
and seated dinner, and enjoy a program featuring acclaimed authors Edmund White and Michael Carroll.
Edmund White is the author of more than 26 books, including novels, memoirs and biographies.
He will be speaking about Inside a Pearl: My Years in Paris, which describes his 15-year sojourn as an
expatriate in the City of Lights. His biography of Jean Genet won the National Book Award in 1994
and his memoir City Boy was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2010. His trio of
autobiographic novels, A Boy’s Own Story (1982), The Beautiful Room is Empty (1988), and
The Farewell Symphony (1997) are internationally renowned. Currently a Professor of Creative Writing
at Princeton University, he has won a Guggenheim Award and is a member of the Academy of Arts
and Letters. He will appear with his husband, the writer Michael Carroll, whose short story collection
Little Reef won the Sue Kaufman Prize for first fiction in 2015.
Proceeds benefit Writers for Readers, a collaborative partnership between Literacy Kansas City and
UMKC’s Creative Writing Program. This innovative program will employ Creative Writing graduate
students to create, implement, and teach creative writing to teens and adults enrolled in Literacy
Kansas City’s Ticket to Read programs throughout the metro.
This is a ticketed event. To purchase tickets and RSVP, please visit www.LiteracyKC.org