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The first annual IN PRINT Festival at Ball State University welcomed these special guests:
On Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 at 7 p.m. in the Museum of Art, Room 217, four newly published writers - Amy Benson, Brad Land, Christopher Coake, and Cynie Cory - read from their work. The following evening, Wednesday, February 23rd at 7 p.m. the IN PRINT authors were joined by publishing industry professional Nikole Brown for a panel discussion on the writing and publishing of a first book.
For more information, please contact Jill Christman (jcchristman@bsu.edu)
Both events were free and open to the public. The 2005-2006 Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by Creative Writing in
the Department of English at Ball State University.
More information on our visiting writers:
Amy Benson is
the winner of the 2003 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for creative
nonfiction, selected by Ted Conover and awarded by Middlebury College and
the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for her memoir
The Sparkling-Eyed
Boy (Houghton Mifflin, 2004).
Memoirist
Brad Land's
debut book,
Goat,
was released by Random House in February 2004. He studied creative writing
at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he received his
M.F.A., and Western Michigan University, where he served as nonfiction
editor of Third Coast.
Native Hoosier Chrisptopher Coake's first collection of short stories, We’re in Trouble, will be published by Harcourt Brace in April 2005. A graduate of Ball State and the MFA program at Ohio State University, he now lives in Reno where he teaches creative writing at the University of Nevada.
Cynie Cory's first collection of poems, American Girl, was published by New Issues in 2004. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Florida State University, where she earned a Ph.D.