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Visiting Writers Festival

Sept. 27, 2018

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
DR. WILLIAM SNYDER, professor, English
(218) 299-3713
ELLEN WUFLESTAD, Office manager
(218) 299-3812
AMY KELLY, College Communications and Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642

VISITING WRITERS FESTIVAL AT CONCORDIA

The Concordia College English Department will present the Visiting Writers Festival Wednesday, Oct. 3-Friday, Oct. 5, in Frida Nilsen Lounge, Fjelstad Hall. A public reading will be at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3, and is free and open to the public.

Each fall, the English Department invites three writers to campus to read their work, conduct master classes, participate in a student-moderated panel discussion about writing and literature, and visit classrooms. The department invites a poet, a writer of fiction, and a nonfiction writer or journalist to participate.

This year’s writers include Lin Enger, author of the novels “The High Divide” and “Peace Like a River”; Linda Grover, author of several books, including “The Road Back to Sweetgrass” and “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year”; and Sharon Chmielarz, author of several poetry collections including “The Other Mozart,” and “The Widow’s House.”

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