Event Archive

Listed below are links to the events and authors sponsored and/or publicized by the Center for the Writing Arts since September 2003. If you would like additional information on these or upcoming events, or if you'd like to suggest a Northwestern writing event for additional publicity, please contact the Center at 847-467-4099 or e-mail us at words@northwestern.edu.

  • Fall 2012-  Bonnie Nadzam, Jeffrey Toobin, Chris Jones, One Book One Northwestern author Alex Kotlowitz
  • Fall 2011- Jane Taylor, Raúl Zurita, the documentary "The Interrupters", Michael Slackman
  • Winter 2011- Alex Kotlowitz, Seth Stein, Lily Koppel, and Virginia Heffernan.
  • Fall 2010 - Zakes Mda, Jahan Ramazani, and Adulrazak Gurnah.
  • Spring 2010- Graphic Novel event with Jeffrey Brown, Ivan Brunetti, Anders Nilsen, and Chris Ware. 
    Winter 2010
    - Alex Kotlowitz, Robyn Okrant, Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Carr, Steve James
  • Fall 2009 - Angela Jackson, Chris Abani, Toshi Reagon, Alessandra Stanley 
  • Spring 2009 - Michael Chabon, Adina Hoffman, Loren Ghiglione, Sandi Wisenberg, Dave Tolchinsky
  • Spring 2008 - Mary Anne Mohanraj, Benjamin E. Skinner, Ok Go, Aleksander Hemon, Igor Stiks, Joshua Ellison
  • Winter 2008 - Michelle Weldon, Abigail Foerstner, Alex Kotlowitz, William and Frances Paden, David Standish, Diane McWhorter, Erik Larson, Joe Richman
  • Fall 2007 - Nancy Horan, The Black Arts Movement in the Broader Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement (With Angela Jackson, Sterling Plumpp, Ed Roberson, Carolyn Rodgers, and Sala Udin), Dr. Mary Pattillo, Ed Roberson, International Day of Writing, Michael Lesy, Alex Kuczynski
  • Spring 2007 - Tara Ison, Boubacar Boris Diop, Inna Naroditskaya, Joshua Weiner, Julieanne Ehre, Robert Auletta (with Alan Shapiro, and Reginald Gibbons) Stuart Dybek, Alice Peacock, Krista Detor and Dylan Rice, Craig LaMay
  • Winter 2007 - Laura Kipnis, Alex Kotlowitz, Alexander Weheliye, Michele Weldon, Michael McColly, James Tuong Nguyen, Brooke Kroeger, Michael Specter
  • Fall 2006 - Akbar Ganji, Landon Y. Jones, Adrienne Rich, Steven Lubet, Brigid Hughes, Rebecca Gilman, Naeem Murr, Gary Snyder, Mary Kinzie, Margaret Talbot, Landon Y. Jones, James McManus
  • Spring 2006 - The Screen and Stage Writer's Panel (with Greg Berlanti, Eric Bernt, Hank Chilton, Wendy Macleod, and Rebecca Gilman Playwright), Pamela Samuels-Young, Doris Garraway, Arthur Golden, Orhan Pamuk, Arthur Golden, David Remnick, Christine Froula, Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis
  • Winter 2006 - Martin Redish, Kristina vanden Heuvel, Alex Kotlowitz, Kalisha Buckhanon, Robyn Schiff, Meg and Dan Baum, Charlie LeDuff, Kenji Yoshino, Susan Manning
  • Fall 2005 - William T. Jeanes, Brock Clark, Christina Pugh, Elmer Lewis, Katherine Boo, Jennifer 8. Lee, Dan McAdams
  • Spring 2005 - Aleksandar Hemon, Peter Ho Davies, T.H. Breen
  • Winter 2005 - Christine Schutt, Mary Zimmerman, Adam Hochschild, Alex Kotlowitz, Deborah Sontag, Rick Atkinson, Reginald Gibbons
  • Fall 2004 - Fareed Zakaria, E. L. Doctorow, Gail Collins, Garry Wills, Peter Landesman
  • Winter 2004 - Carolyn Dean, Pico Iyer, Charles Altieri, Homer Hickam, Geoffrey K. Pullum, Shawn Wong, Michael Wolff
  • Spring 2004 - Alex Kotlowitz, David Barber, Stephen Kinzer, Dorothy Rabinowitz, John Frederick Walker, Rick Lyman, Carolyn Cooke, Houston Baker
  • Fall 2003 - Alexander Stille, Dave Eggers, Robert Olen Butler, Tracy Kidder, Chang-Rae Lee, Eric Schlosser, Larissa MacFarquhar, Alice Sebold, Glen David Gold, Michele Weldon, W. S. Di Piero