S216.
Exploring the Terrain of Fiction—Writing as a Means of Survival
Saturday, March 11, 2023
3:20 pm to 4:35 pm
From short stories to novels, from social realism to speculative fiction, from American tales to immigrant lit, from heterosexual narratives to LGBTQ stories, five award-winning authors—Christine Sneed, Karin Lin-Greenberg, Michael X. Wang, Matthew Lansburgh, and Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry—will read from their most recent work on themes of love, loss, war, cultural identity, and displacement.
Participants
Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, a Russian-Armenian, won 2020 Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Prize for her first story collection, What Isn't Remembered, long-listed for the PEN/Bingham Prize and short-listed for W. Saroyan International Prize. Her debut novel, The Orchard, was published in March of 2022.
Christine Sneed is the faculty director of Northwestern University's graduate writing program; she also teaches for Regis University's low-residency MFA program and was an AWP Writer to Writer mentor. She has published four books; her first, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry, won the Grace Paley Prize.
Michael X. Wang is the author of the story collection Further News of Defeat, winner of the PEN/Bingham Prize, the Autumn House Fiction Prize, and the GLCA New Writer Award. His debut novel, Lost in the Long March, comes out this November.
Karin Lin-Greenberg's story collection Faulty Predictions won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and her story collection Vanished won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize. Her novel You Are Here is forthcoming. She is an associate professor in the English department at Siena College.
Adam McOmber is the author of four queer speculative novels as well as three collections of short stories. He is a core faculty member in the MFA writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and editor in chief of Hunger Mountain Review.
