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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2014
6:00-7:00 p m featured event
7:00-7:30 pm b ook signing
Peggy Dow Helmerich A udi tor ium, Annie May Swift Hall
1920 Campus Drive on the University’s Evanston campus
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC--No reservations are required
Ta-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor and writer for The Atlantic. He has penned many influential articles, including the famous "This is How We Lost to the White Man," a searingly honest look at the generational and ideological rifts in the black community (the title is a quote from Bill Cosby). Last year, Coates’s lively Atlantic blog—a lesson in how to thoroughly engage a community of readers—was named by Time as one of the 25 Best in the World. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle.
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River, and Never a City So Real. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio’s This American Life. Kotlowitz is renowned for his narratives of particular individuals whose concrete life experiences illuminate broad aspects of our nation’s social and political landscape. He is the co-producer of the award-winning documentary The Interrupters.
Sponsored by Northwestern University’s Center for the Writing Arts
Co-sponsored by Performance Studies and the Department of African American Studies
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MARK TURCOTTE, The CWA's spring quarter writer in residence for 2014, has a new podcast interview out from the The Guild Literary Complex.
CLICK HERE TO HEAR PODCAST.
For nearly 25 years, the Guild Literary Complex has been a community- based literary organization presenting and supporting diverse, divergent, and emerging voices through innovative programs including performances and readings. The Guild Literary Complex believes that vibrant literature contributes to society and community, and that people should have access to quality literary experiences that engage them with dynamic juxtapositions of voices and ideas.
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This fall the Chicago History Museum gave an assignment to nominate a story for a future exhibition at our Museum. Thousands told us their ideas. We identified sixteen of the most mentioned topics, and created a three-round tournament where people voted on the winner. What story did Chicago choose?
"CHICAGO AUTHORS"
For more details go the Chicago History Museum.
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Writers in Residence
Alex Kotlowitz
ALEX KOTLOWITZ is the WRITER IN RESIDENCE for the CENTER FOR THE WRITING ARTS. He teaches the Writing 303 The Art of Non-Fiction: Telling Stories every Winter Quarter.
Award-winning author of There Are No Children Here, The Other Side of the River, and Never a City So Real. Contributor to The New York Times Magazine and public radio’s This American Life. Alex Kotlowitz is renowned for his narratives of particular individuals whose concrete life experiences illuminate broad aspects of our nation’s social and political landscape. Along with producer/director Steve James he co-produced the award winning documentary, The Interrupters, it tells the moving and surprising story of three “violence interrupters” in Chicago who with bravado, humility and even humor try to protect their communities from the violence they once employed.
The CWA is proud to announce MARK TURCOTTE as our SPRING QUARTER 2014 VISITING WRITER IN RESIDENCE
Mark Turcotte (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) is author of four poetry collections, including The Feathered Heart and Exploding Chippewas. His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many literary journals, including TriQuarterly, POETRY, Hunger Mountain, Rosebud, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, Ploughshares, Sentence and The Missouri Review.
He was the recipient of a Lannan Foundation Literary Grant, and has been awarded two Literary Fellowships by the Wisconsin Arts Board. He was a writer-in-residence for the National Book Foundation’s “American Voices” project, and was awarded a Lannan Writer’s Residency in Marfa, Texas. His poem, The Flower On, was part of the Poetry Society of America’s Poetry In Motion project, which placed poetry placards on public transportation in cities across the United States. His work is included in the NEA/Poetry Foundation high school recitation project Poetry Out Loud. In recent months he has been invited to share his work from Boston to Santa Fe to Fargo to Montepellier, France.
Turcotte served as the 2008-2009 Visiting Native Writer at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He lives in Chicago where he is Visiting Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at DePaul University.
