Noted Mystery Writer Gives Public Reading
Dennis Lehane, author of the best selling novel “Mystic River” and a member of the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast Low Residency M.F.A. faculty, will do a public reading as part of the USM’s writers’ festival, Words & Images 2002: The Event—A Celebration of Maine’s Literary and Visual Creativity. Lehane will read at 7:30 p.m. on April 12 in the former Steego Building located on Bedford St. on USM’s Portland campus. His reading is free and open to the public. Words and Images is a student run group that edits and collects student submissions into a literary journal.
USM’s new Stonecoast Low Residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program will begin with a summer residency this coming June. It is a two-year program that follows the British university tutorial model of one residency per semester, during which the students get the opportunity to work with faculty members. During the rest of the semester, students submit writings and receive critiques from their faculty mentor though mail and Internet. Students may have a concentration in a variety of writing genres including poetry, novel, and short story. An M.F.A. is awarded after completion of the intensive two-year course and submission of a book-length manuscript.
The Stonecoast M.F.A. faculty includes Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Stephen Dunn, State of Maine Poet Laureate Baron Wormser, and Poet Laureate of Brooklyn D. Nurkse, among others. These writers will conduct workshops with students throughout the semester, as well as being present during residencies to do round table discussions, lectures and readings.
For more information about the Stonecoast M.F.A., or Lehane’s reading on April 12, please contact Tammy Hutchins at 780-5262.
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