Current Fiction Events | Fiction Writers Festival

Sept 26, Friday - 4pm:   Brad Vice

Taft Lecture Room

Novelist Brad Vice reads from his recent work. 

Brad received his doctorate in English from UC in 2001. His first collection of short stories, The Bear Bryant Funeral Parade, won the Flannery O'Connor Prize in Short Fiction and was published by University of Georgia Press. It received rave reviews, including a starred reviewed from Kirkus; but shortly thereafter, Brad was accused of plagiarism, and University of Georgia Press pulled the book. River City Press then republished the book, and included an explanatory essay by Brad and letters/essays written by a number of prominent authors in Brad's defense. His short fiction and non fiction has appeared in the Georgia Review, the Atlantic Monthly, the Southern Review, Best New American Voices, New Stories from the South, and Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, Volume III. Born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Brad now divides his time between Starkville, Mississippi, and Pilsen in the Czech Republic, where he teaches at the University of West Bohemia.

Contact:  Michael Griffith
 

Oct 2, Thursday - 7pm:  Mark Winegardner

Room 427 ERC
Novelist Mark Winegardner reads from his recent work.

Mark Winegardner was born and raised in Bryan, Ohio, near Exit 2, a town of 8,000 which supplies the world with its Dum-Dum suckers and Etch-a-Sketches. His parents owned an RV dealership there, and every summer he traveled with his family across the USA in various travel trailers and motorhomes. By the time he was 15, he had been in all 48 contiguous states. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Miami University and went on to receive a master of fine arts degree in fiction writing from George Mason University. He published his first book at age 26, while still in graduate school. He has taught at Miami, George Mason, George Washington, and John Carroll Universities, and is now a professor in the creative writing program at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida.

Winegardner has won grants, fellowships and residencies from the Ohio Arts Council, the Lilly Endowment, the Ragdale Foundation, the Sewanee Writers Conference and the Corporation of Yaddo. His books have been chosen as among the best of the year by the New York Times Book Review, Chicago Sun-Times, Los Angeles Times, the New York Public Library, and USA Today. His work has appeared in GQ, Playboy, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, DoubleTake, Family Circle, The Sporting News, Witness, Story Quarterly, American Short Fiction, Ladies Home Journal, Parents and The New York Times Magazine. Several of his stories have been chosen as Distinguished Stories of the Year in The Best American Short Stories.

- www.markwinegardner.com

Contact: Michael Griffith