Program - Princeton University

The Program in Creative Writing presents
emerging writers
reading series 2014-15
September 19
Porochista Khakpour (fiction)
with:
Joan Bedinger
Chester Dubov
Ben Goldman
Nonny Okwelogu
October 10
Brenda Shaughnessy (poetry)
with:
Aron Wander
Allison Somers
Anya Lewis-Meeks
November 14
Justin Torres (fiction)
with:
Sam Butler
Jared Garland
Ava Geyer
Cameron Langford
Isabelle Laurenzi
February 20
Marie Howe (poetry)
with:
Filipa Ioannou
Cosette Gonzales
Evan Coles
Milena Phan
Yessica Martinez
The Program in Creative Writing presents
friday, March 27
Darcey Steinke(fiction)
with:
Tom Markham
Shannon McGue
Jane Pritchard
David White
March 27
Darcey Steinke (fiction)
with:
Jane Pritchard
Tom Markham
Shannon McGue
David White
April 24 C.A. Conrad &
Dorothea Lasky (poetry)
with:
Susannah Sharpless
Amanda Devine
Emily McDonald
Vivian Ludford
fridays • 6 p.m. at labyrinth books, 122 nassau street
free and open to the public.
for more about the program in creative writing visit
arts.princeton.edu
2014-2015
The Emerging Writers
Reading Series at
Labyrinth Bookstore
showcases senior thesis
students of the Program
in Creative Writing and
features established
writers as special guests.
Photo by Jenny Gorman
Darcey Steinke
Darcey Steinke is the author
of Sister Golden Hair, chosen
by Flavorwire as one of the
Best Independent Fiction
and Poetry Books of 2014.
Her other novels include Milk
(2005); Jesus Saves (1997);
Suicide Blonde (1992); and
Up Through the Water (1989),
a New York Times Notable
Book. Her memoir Easter
Everywhere (2007) was also
named a New York Times
Notable Book. Along with
Rick Moody, she edited Joyful
Noise: The New Testament
Revisited (1997), a collection
of essays offering personal
interpretations of modern Christianity. Her books have been
translated into ten languages, and her nonfiction has appeared in
The New York Times Magazine, The Boston Review, Vogue, Spin
Magazine, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and The Guardian.
Her web story “Blindspot” was included as part of the 2000
Whitney Biennial. She has been both a Henry Hoyns and a Stegner
Fellow, and she was also a Writer-in-Residence at the University of
Mississippi. Steinke has taught creative writing at the Columbia
University School of the Arts, Barnard, The American University of
Paris, and at Princeton University.
The Emerging Writers Reading Series, hosted by the seniors in the Program,
is intended to present a public showcase for the work of their peers and to
invite professional writers by whom the students have been inspired.
Student Writers
The student writers, who are pursuing a certificate in Creative
Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read
from their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working
on a novel, screenplay, or collection of short stories as part
of a creative thesis for their certificate with a member of the
Creative Writing faculty.
Tom Markham is a senior English concentrator from
Nashville, Tennessee. His main area of study includes the
works of such Southern writers as William Faulkner and
Walker Percy. His thesis, a novel entitled Ten Thousand
Whispers, is about a compulsive eavesdropper struggling
to make sense of the world. His advisors are Edmund White
and Sheila Kohler.
Shannon McGue is concentrating in Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology and pursuing a certificate in Global
Health and Health Policy. She grew up in Indiana and
Charleston, South Carolina. Her thesis is a collection of
stories exploring the wide variety of relationships that can
shape us. She is advised by Darcey Steinke and Fiona Maazel.
Jane Pritchard is from Albany, New York. She is an English
concentrator with a certificate in filmmaking. Her thesis is a
novel. She is advised by Susan Choi and Colson Whitehead.
David White is an architecture major from Kansas City.
Christina Lazaridi and Lawrence Konner are advising his
screenwriting project. The script, set in the near future,
follows a 16 year-old boy as he fights to save his sister from
a band of murderous robots. ;).