"Writers Speak" Continues with Julie Sheehan

SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y., March 17, 2009—The provocative and entertaining “Writers Speak” literary lecture series continues on March 25 at Stony Brook Southampton with MFA faculty member Julie Sheehan. She will be reading from her forthcoming collection, Bar Book: Poems & Otherwise.

Julie Sheehan

The events are part of Southampton's MFA in Writing and Literature program and its “Writers Speak” series of literary events, which all take place on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in Duke Lecture Hall and are free and open to the public. For further information, call 631-632-5030.

Julie Sheehan teaches in the graduate MFA Writing and Literature program at Stony Brook Southampton and is a recent Whiting Award winner. The awards, which are $50,000 each, have been given annually since 1985 to writers of exceptional talent and promise in early career. Other honors include the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her second book Orient Point (Norton, 2006) and the Poets Out Loud Prizes for her first book, Thaw (Fordham University Press, 2001).

Other talks this semester include:
April 1 – The Southampton Review Launch in New York City -- Issue No. 4 hits the literary scene with a celebration at the MFA in Writing & Literature Program's Manhattan campus.
April 15 – Kaylie Jones -- MFA faculty member reads from her work.
April 22 – Fiona Maazel and John Wray -- Popular young fiction writers.
April 29 – Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Prolific and multi-genre author reads from her most recent book, a memoir, Not Now, Voyager, just out from Counterpoint.
May 6 – MFA students.

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