Award Winning Writers to Visit UAM

Well Said— Kevin Brockmeier has published several novels in addition to his numerous publications in magazines. He has received several awards for his work.

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Award winning Arkansas writers Kevin Brockmeier and Donald Hays will read from their selected works at the University of Arkansas at Monticello Oct. 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Harris Recital Hall of the Music Building.

The reading, sponsored by the Oxford American Literary Project, will be free and open to the public. The Oxford American Literary Project publishes The Oxford American magazine and promotes the literary arts.

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Among Other Things - Hays published several works and received a nomination for the PEN/Faulkner award for "The Dixie Association."

Brockmeier is the author of the novels "The Brief History of the Dead" and "The Truth About Celia," the children’s novels “City Names" and "Grooves: A Kind of Mystery.” He also wrote the story collections “Things That Fall from the Sky.” His latest work, “The View from the Seventh Layer,” will be published in early 2008.

Brockmeier published stories in The New Yorker, The Georgia Review and The Oxford American. He has received the PEN USA Award, an Italo Calvino Short Fiction Award, a James Michener-Paul Engle Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Recently, he received the honor of being named one of Granta magazine's Best Young American Novelists. He lives in Little Rock.

Donald “Skip” Hays is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville. He is most noted for his 1984 novel, “The Dixie Association,” which was nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. His other works include the novel, “The Hangman’s Children” (1989) and most recently, “Dying Light and Other Stories” (2005), a collection of short stories. His short story “Dying Light” was reprinted in New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best (2003). In 2006, he was awarded the Porter Prize, Arkansas’s premier literary award.

For more information, contact Diane Payne, director of the Writing Center, at 460-1247 or the School of Arts and Humanities at 460-1047.

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