So I know you'll all be attending the #superblueferry event hosted by Superstition Review, Blue Mesa Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review on April 10th @ 10 AM at The Nicollet. But what other offsite events do you not want to miss? To make your AWP-evenings as fun, social, and productive as possible we've compiled a list of the offsite events we are most excited about.
Read MoreSo you’re going to have a reading! Congratulations! Readings can be very fun and are an excellent opportunity for you to share your work with the world. But for many the idea of standing in front of a crowd and speaking is a daunting task. If you are one of those people, have no fear! Here are some tips for the nervous writer.
Read MoreKyle McCord (who had a poem in HFR52) and Nick Courtright will be reading tomorrow (Wednesday), May 14th at 11th Monk3y Industries at 7 PM with alum Bojan Luis!
Nick Courtright is the author of Let There Be Light, out now from Gold Wake Press, and Punchline, a 2012 National Poetry Series finalist. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, AGNI, Boston Review, and Kenyon Review Online, among numerous others, and a chapbook, Elegy for the Builder’s Wife, is available from Blue Hour Press. He lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, Michelle, and sons, William and Samuel; also, he teaches writing and literature at Concordia University.
Read MoreOn Tuesday, March 18th at 8 p.m., writer and Hayden’s Ferry Review contributor David James Poissant will be giving a reading at The Tavern on Mill (404 S. Mill Ave.) from his debut book, The Heaven of Animals, a collection of short stories. The Heaven of Animals will be available for purchase at the reading, courtesy of ASU Bookstores.
Poissant teaches in the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Central Florida, and his stories and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Chicago Tribune, Glimmer Train, The New York Times, Playboy, and Ploughshares, among others. His work has been awarded the Matt Clark Prize, the George Garrett Fiction Award, the RopeWalk Fiction Chapbook Prize, and the Alice White Reeves Memorial Award from the National Society of Arts & Letters. His story “The Hand Model” appeared in HFR52.
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