WILMINGTON — Writers’s Week at UNCW takes place from Monday, Nov. 9 to Friday, Nov. 13 and will include nationally recognized writers and literary professionals holding gatherings for poetry, prose, and other creative writing.
Writers’ Week is an annual event that provides writing resources for students and the public through readings, workshops, and craft talks.
This year’s theme is sentience, focusing on human encounters that inspire people to write, along with their word choices.
The lineup of speakers includes poet and novelist Kaveh Akbar, whose novel, “Martyr!”, was a finalist for the National Book Award and was named one of The New York Times’ 10 Best Books of the Year.
New Yorker staff writer Lauren Collins, who Port City Daily interviewed earlier this year, will also be a part of Writers’ Week. She is a Wilmington native who will discuss her new book, “They Stole a City: Wilmington’s White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy,” which is about the consequences of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre.
The week will also feature Julie Buntin, author of “Famous Men” which follows the power dynamics within an age gap mentor-mentee relationship.
All Writers’ Week events are free and open to the public. Offsite events on Wednesday held at Cameron Art Museum may require registration, but on-campus events will be held in Lumina Theater located in the Fisher Student Center and in Kenan Auditorium and will not need prior registration.
The schedule of readings, workshops and craft talks may be found here.
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