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This year's Thomas Wolfe Lecture will be given by the distinguished American novelist Percival Everett, winner of the 2022 Thomas Wolfe Prize. Author of more than thirty novels, short story collections, and books of poetry, Everett has won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent novel, The... Read More →
Reading by 2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Monique Truong, Tuesday, March 28, 7:30pm, Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall, UNC-CH Campus. Open and Free to the public
Join us for a reading by Allison Hedge Coke, 2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize Recipient, on Tuesday, October 3 at 7:30 at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC-Chapel Hill campus. The reading is free and open to the public. For the whole of her astonishing literary career, memoirist, poet, and activist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke... Read More →
2024 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence, Terrance Hayes, will give a reading on Tuesday, February 27 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in hill Hall. The reading is free and open to the public. One of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American literature, Terrance Hayes is the author of seven books of poetry: So to Speak... Read More →
Ben Fountain, 2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient, will give a public reading on Tuesday, September 24 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC-CH campus. The reading is free and open to the public. On the strength of four great books – two novels, a short story collection, and a searing journalistic account... Read More →
Alexander Chee, 2025 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence will give a reading on Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall. The reading is free and open to the public. Alexander Chee is the author of three books, including most recently the widely acclaimed essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, published... Read More →
2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize recipient, Tressie McMillan Cottom, will give a reading on Tuesday, September 30 at 7:30pm in Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC-CH campus. Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom is a professor in the School of Information and Library Science and principal investigator with the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life at... Read More →
In his book of essays Inciting Joy, Ross Gay writes, “...we often think of joy as meaning “without pain,” or “without sorrow,” “ …what if joy needs sorrow?” In these essays, Gay illustrates how joy and sorrow are braided together. Gay encourages us to invite sorrow in to “make sorrow some tea from the lemon... Read More →
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