Event overview
2013 Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop
Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark(Northwestern University Press, 2012), which won the Cave CanemNorthwestern University Poetry Prize for a second collection, and Blue-Tail Fly(Wayne State University, 2006). Her work has appeared in numerous print and onlinejournals, textbooks,and anthologies including Best American Poetry 2010and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of African American Poetry. A participant in both the Callalooand Cave Canem Workshops, she has also beena Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In 2009 shereceived a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She most recently accepted a Bread Loaf Fellowshipand is currently a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC, and Development Editor for Callaloo.
Ravi Howard was, in 2008, a finalist for The Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award and for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for his debut novel, Like Trees, Walking. In 2008, he won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. He has also published in Callaloo, Massachusetts Review, and theNew York Times,and he has recorded commentary for National Public Radio. As a former television producer for NFL Films, he received a 2004 Sports Emmy for his work on HBO’s Inside the NFL.Ravi Howard received his MFA degreein creative writing from the University of Virginia, and he is currently a professor at Atlanta Metropolitan State College. His second novel, Driving the King, is forthcoming from HarperCollins.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Nov 2013 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm |
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