Binghamton University, Creative Writing: Distinguished Writer
Mar
5
to Mar 6

Binghamton University, Creative Writing: Distinguished Writer

The Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University is designed to foster in its students a powerful, disciplined, and skilled creativity cultivated in a supportive environment. In association with the Program, the Binghamton Center for Writers cultivates an active community of writers, including featuring nationally and internationally recognized writers in the Distinguished Writers Series.

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Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Episode 16: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues
Aug
9
8:00 PM20:00

Virtual Franklin Park Reading Series Episode 16: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues

For our season finale, we're excited to present trailblazing authors Kiese Laymon (Long Division, Heavy), Melissa Febos (Girlhood, Abandon Me), Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi (Savage Tongues, Call Me Zebra), Chris Stuck (Give My Love to the Savages), and Elle Nash (Nudes, Animals Eat Each Other).

RSVP TO ATTEND HERE.

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BOMB Magazine Book Launch: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues, in conversation with Nadia Owusu
Aug
3
6:30 PM18:30

BOMB Magazine Book Launch: Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi, author of Savage Tongues, in conversation with Nadia Owusu

Join us as we celebrate the launch of Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Savage Tongues (Mariner Books). From the PEN/Faulkner Award winning author of Fra Keeler and Call Me Zebra, comes a new novel about a young woman caught in an affair with a much older man, a personal and political exploration of desire, power, and human connection. The evening will be hosted by the author of Aftershocks (Simon & Schuster), Nadia Owusu. RSVP TO ATTEND HERE.

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Lighthouse Lit Fest
Jun
4
to Jun 13

Lighthouse Lit Fest

Lighthouse Lit Fest is a ten-day celebration of writers and readers, an extravaganza of weeklong and weekend advanced workshops, craft seminars, readings, salons, business panels, agent meetings, and parties. 

Confirmed Visiting Authors for 2021 include playwright Sarah Ruhl; fiction writers Sheila Heti, Mat Johnson, Rebecca Makkai, Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, Steve Almond, and Bryan Washington; nonfiction writers Hanif Abdurraqib, Jaquira Díaz, Leslie Jamison, T Kira Madden, and Emily Rapp Black; and poets Carolyn Forché, Layli Long Soldier, and Gregory Pardlo.

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Mar
24
8:00 PM20:00

Cancelled - Binghamton University, March 24

Cancelled

Tuesday, March 24, 8 pm FA 258. A Readers' Series Event with Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi, winner of the BU John Gardner Fiction Book Award for Call Me Zebra, which also won The 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. 

Her work has appeared in The Paris Review,  GRANTA, Guernica, BOMB,  and the Los Angeles Review of Books among other places. She has lived in Iran, Spain, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Notre Dame.

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