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SUMMARY:2026 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence\, Ross Gay\, Reading
DESCRIPTION:In his book of essays Inciting Joy\, Ross Gay writes\, “…we often think of joy as meaning “without pain\,” or “without sorrow\,” “[but] …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 balm in the garden.” Gather friends\, family\, and strangers to be together with our sorrow\, yet together. Gay’s poems and prose assemble our collective witnessing and our collective duty to those with us now and those who come after us into sprawling\, intelligent\, and tender writing. In Gay’s most recent poetry collection\, Be Holding: A Poem\, a tribute to Julius Erving\, Gay continues to explore themes of joy\, this time through Dr. J’s infamous shot at the 1980s NBA Finals\, state violence\, and childhood. The Kenyon Review writes\, “in moving passages about his own loving but economically hard-pressed upbringing in a biracial family\, Gay poses the living breath of memory against the dispiriting museum of pain.” \nThrough the years Gay has put into words the joy we find unattainable—the joy under the rock of loss. He is the author of four poetry collections: Against Which (2006); Bringing the Shovel Down (2011); Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (2015)\, winner of  the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award\, and shortlisted for the National Book Award; and Be Holding: A Poem (2020)\, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award and the Indiana Authors Award. He is the author of three essay collections: The Book of Delights (2019)\, winner of the Indiana Authors Award and a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy (2022)\, winner of the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award and the Ohio Book Award; and The Book of (More) Delights (2023)\, shortlisted for the Ohio Book Award. \nWhether in poetry or prose\, Ross Gay illuminates humanity’s tenderness and cruelty\, our inclination towards compassion\, and our ability to cause harm. Through his writing he has a remarkable ability to explore and unpack the complexities of joy and grief. As Gay writes in an interview with Inscape Journal\, “I think partly the reason is because joy is never separate from grief. Joy is never separate from devastation or catastrophe. Joy is always acknowledging\, aware of\, and in the midst of those things.” Similar to Lucille Clifton\, Ross Gay is one of the few writers who have dedicated their work to the study of joy. In an interview with David Naimon for the podcast Between the Covers\, Gay says\, “When I’m talking about joy\, again\, joy is a long study for me\, but I’m talking about some kind of feeling that emerges when we are trying to hold each other’s sorrow and trying to be with each other in the midst of\, in the face of\, etc\, of the fact of our pain.” \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2026-frank-b-hanes-writer-in-residence-ross-gay-reading/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Tressie McMillan Cottom
DESCRIPTION: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.\nDr. 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 the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill\, NY Times columnist\, and 2020 MacArthur Fellow. Her work has earned national and international recognition for the urgency and depth of its incisive critical analysis of technology\, higher education\, culture\, media\, class\, race\, and gender. Recent accolades include being named the 2023 winner of the Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize by Brandeis University for her “critical perspective and analysis to some of the greatest social challenges we face today\,” the 2025 Thomas Wolfe Prize\, and a 2025-26 National Humanities Center Fellow. Her most recent book\, THICK: And Other Essays was just listed as one the 30 best nonfiction books of the last 30 years by the L.A. Times Festival of Books. Two books are forthcoming with Random House Books. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2025-thomas-wolfe-prize-and-lecture-with-tressie-mcmillan-cottom/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence\, Alexander Chee\, Reading
DESCRIPTION: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. \nAlexander Chee is the author of three books\, including most recently the widely acclaimed essay collection How to Write an Autobiographical Novel\, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2018. In addition to his nonfiction work\, Chee is the author of two novels\, Edinburgh (Welcome Rain\, 2001; Picador\, 2002) and The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt\, 2016. For his writing\, Chee has received many distinguished awards\, including a 2021 United States Artist Fellowship\, a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Prose\, a 2003 Whiting Award\, as well as artist residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony\, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts\, Civitella Ranieri\, among others. Chee serves as a contributing editor at The New Republic\, an editor at large at The Virginia Quarterly Review\, and a critic at large at The Los Angeles Times. He was guest-editor for Best American Essays 2022\, and his essays and stories have appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, Granta\, The Paris Review\, The Sewanee Review\, N+1\, Guernica\, and Best American Essays 2016 and 2019. Chee teaches at Dartmouth College\, where he is a professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2025-frank-b-hanes-writer-in-residence-alexander-chee-reading/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:2024 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Ben Fountain
DESCRIPTION: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.\nOn the strength of four great books – two novels\, a short story collection\, and a searing journalistic account of the 2016 presidential election – Ben Fountain has established himself as one of our country’s most important writers. At once literary\, political\, specific\, and expansive\, his work beautifully articulates through story the widening gulf between American ideals and reality. He has earned a place in a lineage of authors that includes Robert Stone\, Joan Didion\, Graham Greene\, and John LeCarré.\nFountain’s contributions to our literature have not gone unnoticed. His books have received the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, the PEN/ Hemingway Award\, the Los Angeles Times Book Award\, and a Whiting Award\, among many other honors. His novel Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was a finalist for the National Book Award.\nFountain graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1980\, having studied under some of the brightest lights in the Creative Writing Program: Doris Betts\, Marianne Gingher\, and Louis Rubin.  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2024-thomas-wolfe-prize-and-lecture-with-ben-fountain/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:Reading with Terrance Hayes\, 2024 Frank B. Hanes\, Writer-in-Residence
DESCRIPTION: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. \nOne of the most distinctive voices in contemporary American literature\, Terrance Hayes is the author of seven books of poetry: So to Speak (2023); American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin (2018)\, winner of the Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress; How to Be Drawn (2015); Lighthead (2010)\, winner of the 2010 National Book Award in Poetry; Wind in a Box (2006); Hip Logic (2002)\, winner of the National Poetry Series; and Muscular Music (1999)\, winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He is also the author of To Float In The Space Between: A Life and Work in Conversation with the Life and Work of Etheridge Knight (2018)\, which won the Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. He has been received many other honors and awards\, including a 2014 MacArthur Foundation Genius Award\, a Whiting Award in Poetry\, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. His poetry has appeared in such places as The New Yorker\, Poetry\, and The American Poetry Review\, and also been featured on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. He is a Professor of English and Creative Writing at New York University. \nFrank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence \n \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/reading-with-terrance-hayes-2024-frank-b-hanes-writer-in-residence/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Allison Hedge Coke
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFor the whole of her astonishing literary career\, memoirist\, poet\, and activist Allison Adelle Hedge Coke has embodied a deep commitment to the land and the people who are often overlooked as they work its fields\, fish its waters\, and try to make a life amidst seemingly impossible obstacles. Having worked in manual labor until she was 30 years old—in fields\, factories\, commercial fishing\, construction\, and cleaning—Hedge Coke brings a compassionate and unflinching perspective on the lives of everyday people in her poems\, nonfiction\, and activist work. “This is a time we must unravel what would otherwise surely choke us\,” she says as an invitation to all who read her work and\, through it\, hope to find a way into their own hard-fought stories. \nAmong several awards and honors\, Allison Hedge Coke is a 1998 American Book Award winner\, a 2022 National Book Award Finalist\, and a 2023 Emory Elliott Book Award winner.  \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2023-thomas-wolfe-prize-and-lecture-with-allison-hedge-coke/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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SUMMARY:2023 Frank B. Hanes Writer-in-Residence\, Monique Truong Reading
DESCRIPTION: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 \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2023-frank-b-hanes-writer-in-residence-monique-truong-reading/
LOCATION:Moeser Auditorium\, 145 East Cameron Ave\, Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, 27514
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SUMMARY:2022 Thomas Wolfe Prize and Lecture with Percival Everett
DESCRIPTION: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 Trees\, has been short-listed for the Booker Prize. The reading will be at Moeser Auditorium in Hill Hall on UNC-CH Campus on Thursday\, October 6 at 7:30pm. \n\n\n	Related
URL:https://artsorange.org/event/2022-thomas-wolfe-prize-and-lecture-with-percival-everett/
LOCATION:James and Susan Moeser Auditorium\, Hill Hall\, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, 145 E. Cameron Avenue\, Chapel Hill\, NC\, 27514\, United States
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