The Newport MFA presents readings, craft talks with best-selling authors
Best-selling authors and award-winning writers will present guest readings and craft talks during a week-long summer workshop being hosted Saturday, June 24, through Saturday, July 1. These events are being hosted by the Newport MFA, Salve Regina’s master of fine arts in creative writing program.
All events are free and open to the Salve Regina community as well as the general public, and anyone interested is encouraged to attend.
All events can be registered for at the following link.
The schedule is as follows:
A Reading by Steve Almond
Saturday, June 24 from 7-8 p.m.
Craft Talk by Steve Almond
Sunday, June 25 from 3-4:15 p.m.
Steve Almond is the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction, including the New York Times bestsellers “Candyfreak” and “Against Football.” His recent books include “William Stoner and the Battle for the Inner Life,” which is about reading and writing and the struggle to pay attention to one’s life, and “Bad Stories,” a literary investigation of the 2016 election. His new book, which came out in April 2022, is a novel called “All the Secrets of the World. “
A Reading by Erin Eileen Almond
Sunday, June 25 from 2-3 p.m.
Erin Eileen Almond
Erin Eileen Almond is a novelist, short story writer, essayist, and reviewer. Her work has been published in The Sun, The Boston Globe, Literary Mama, Colorado Review, Normal School, Small Spiral Notebook, and on WBUR’s Cognoscenti column, and The Rumpus.net. Her writing is informed by her many obsessions: classical music, old houses, fairy lore, feminism, veganism, Victorian novels, violin playing, witches and the singular delight of a well-made bed.
Craft Talk by Jennifer DeLeon
Tuesday, June 27 from 4-5 p.m.
A Reading by Jennifer DeLeon
Tuesday, June 27, 7-8 p.m.
Jennifer De Leon
Jennifer De Leon is author of the YA novel “Don’t Ask Me Where I’m From,” which was chosen as a Junior Library Guild selection, and the essay collection “White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, & Writing,” which is a recipient of the Juniper Prize in Creative Nonfiction. She is also the editor of “Wise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education,” an anthology that won an International Latino Book Award.
An associate professor of creative writing at Framingham State University and faculty member in the creative writing and literature master’s program at Harvard University, she has published prose in over a dozen literary journals including Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Michigan Quarterly Review and more.
Film screening of “Little Children” and discussion with Tom Perrotta
Wednesday, June 28, from 2-3 p.m.
Tom Perrotta
Tom Perrotta is the bestselling author of nine works of fiction, including “Election” and “Little Children,” both of which were made into Oscar-nominated films, and “The Leftovers,” which was adapted into a critically acclaimed, Peabody Award-winning HBO series.
His other books include “Bad Haircut,” “The Wishbones,” “Joe College,” “The Abstinence Teacher,” “Nine Inches,” and his newest, “Mrs. Fletcher.” His work has been translated into a multitude of languages. Perrotta grew up in New Jersey and lives outside of Boston.
All events can be registered for at the following link.
