For Immediate Release

October 27 , 2008

nebraska wesleyan announces annual visiting writers series

LINCOLN, Neb. — Nebraska Wesleyan University has announced its program for the 2008-2009 Visiting Writers Series, which will feature six nationally-recognized writers.

Writers Joanna Klink and Timothy Liu will kick off the program in November. On November 11, Klink, the author of Circadian and They Are Sleeping, will give a reading and discussion. Klink is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award. Klink — who currently teaches at Harvard — has had her work published in the Denver Quarterly, Boston Review and the Kenyon Review. Her reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in Alabaster Lounge, located on the second floor of Old Main, 50th Street and St. Paul Ave.

A November 20th reading will feature writer Timothy Liu. He is the author of seven books of poetry including Of Thee I Sing, which was selected by Publishers Weekly as a 2004 Book of the Year, and Vox Angelica, which won the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award. His reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in Callen Conference Center, located on the lower level of the Smith-Curtis Administration Building, one block east of 50th Street and St. Paul Ave.

The following is the remaining schedule of events for the NWU Visiting Writers Series:

January 29 — Mary Jo Bang, author of five books of poems including Elegy, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her work has been chosen three times for inclusion in the Best American Poetry series; 7:30 p.m., Callen Conference Center.

March 3 — Brian Evenson, prolific writer of 10 books of short stories, novellas and novels including Altmann's Tongue, a controversial book that led to his firing from Brigham Young University and his excommunication from The Morman Church. His work has been compared to J.G. Ballard, Jorge Luis Borges and Edgar Allen Poe; 7:30 p.m., Elder Gallery, located in Rogers Center for Fine Arts, 51st Street and Huntington Ave.

March 31 — Sheila Heti, author of the story collection, The Middle Stories, and the novel, Ticknor. Her work has appeared in The Believer, New York Times Magazine, Esquire and Brick; 7:30 p.m., Alabaster Lounge.

April 16 — Gary Lutz, poetry and fiction writer. Lutz's books include Partial List of People to Bleach, I Looked Alive and Stories In The Worst Way. He is also an expert grammarian having written the Writer's Digest Grammar Desk Reference; 7:30 p.m., Callen Conference Center.

All Visiting Writers Series events are free and open to the public.

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