SIU to host Little Grassy Literary Festival

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April 07, 2017SIU to host Little Grassy Literary Festival
by Andrea Hahn
CARBONDALE, Ill. – The ninth annual Little Grassy Literary Festival takes place April 12-14 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
The Graduate Writers Forum presents the free festival, one of two hosted at the university, as a way of bringing up-and-coming writers to campus for readings, panels and informal discussion. 
All events take place in Morris Library’s John C. Guyon Auditorium. Here’s the schedule:
April 12
6 p.m. – Bonnie Jo Campbell and David Winter readings
April 13
11 a.m. – Abby Geni reading
2 p.m. – Allison Joseph reading
3 p.m. -- book signing
4 p.m. – Aja Monet and Carl Phillips readings
April 14
10 a.m. – Brian Barker reading
11:30 a.m. – Discussion panel
Brian Barker won the Crab Orchard Open Competition in 2010 with his poetry collection “The Black Ocean.” He is also the author of “The Animal Gospels” and many poems and reviews that appear in journals including “American Poetry Review,” “Poetry,” “Kenyon Review Online” and “Ploughshares.” He is an Academy of American Poets prize winner among other awards. He is poetry editor of “Copper Nickel,” and teaches at the University of Colorado Denver.
Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of “Woman and Other Animals,” winner of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs prize for short fiction; “Q Road,” “American Salvage,” “Once Upon a River” and “Mothers, Tell Your Daughters.” An adventure tour organizer and guide, she lives near Kalamazoo, Mich., and teaches at the low residency creative writing program at Pacific University.
Abby Geni is the author of “The Lightkeepers,” winner of the 2016 Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award for Fiction and the inaugural Chicago Review of Books Awards for Best Fiction. Her book “The Last Animal” was an Indies Introduce Debut Writers Selection and a finalist for the Orion Book Award. Her short stories have also garnered awards and ...

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