IN PRINT 3
The third annual IN PRINT Festival at Ball State University welcomed these special guests:
On Wednesday, March 21st at 7 p.m. in the Museum of Art, Room 217, three newly published writers - Alan DeNiro, David Griffith, and Sharmila Voorakkara - read from their freshly minted books (fiction, nonfiction, and poetry respectively). The following evening, Thursday, March 22nd at 7 p.m. also in room 217 of the Art Museum, the IN PRINT authors were joined by a publishing industry professional 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 2006-2007 Visiting Writers Series is sponsored by Creative Writing in the Department of English at Ball State University.
More information on our visiting writers:
Sharmila Voorakkara first collection of poetry, Fire Wheel won the 2003 Akron Poetry Prize and was published in 2005. She is currently an Assistant Professor of English at Ohio University. Her work has appeared in Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Ploughshares, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and other journals. In 2006, she was awarded a Pushcart Prize.
David
Griffith's first book, A Good War is
Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America, was published by
Soft Skull Press in October 2006. He received his BA in English from the
University of Notre Dame and his MFA in fiction writing from the University
of Pittsburgh where he won the Scott Turrow prize. His work has been
nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared or is forthcoming in Godspy,
Collision, Killing the Buddha, Image and The Utne Reader. During
the summer he teaches fiction and chairs the creative writing department at
the Pennsylvania Governor's School for the Arts, a
residential arts colony for exceptional high school artists. He currently
teaches writing and literature at Notre Dame and Saint Mary's College.
Alan DeNiro's stories have appeared in One Story, Fence, Crowd, 3rd Bed, Santa Monica Review, and elsewhere. His short story collection, Skinny Dipping in the Lake of the Dead, appeared in the summer of 2006 from Small Beer Press, and was longlisted for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award. He has recently completed a novel called Total Oblivion, More or Less. He lives outside St. Paul, Minnesota, and works as a proofreader at an advertising agency.