BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Hugo House - ECPv6.3.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Hugo House X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hugohouse.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Hugo House REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171003T210000 DTSTAMP:20240328T162927 CREATED:20170727T045800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170727T045800Z UID:248633-1507057200-1507064400@hugohouse.org SUMMARY:International Writing Program Fall Residency Reading DESCRIPTION:Free to the public. \nHear writers from Hong Kong\, India\, Thailand\, and Niger all in one evening—a unique opportunity to learn about writers from other cultures\, their writing styles\, and what drives them spiritually and politically. \nAs residents of the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program\, these writers are provided a time and place to write\, and a chance to contribute to literature courses both at the University of Iowa and across the country. \nFall residents are also teaching a class on Monday\, October 2\, open to all writing levels\, on the essay as a powerful form to inform and influence audiences. For more information on the class and to register\, visit the class page. \n\nAbout the Residents\n  \nLau Stuart (poet\, essayist\, and critic; Hong Kong) forms his English name by combining the Chinese characters for “study” and “arts.” He has published five poetry collections\, the most recent\, How Broad Are the Plank Roads of Sunshine (2015)\, won the thirteenth Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature. A publishing manager at Oxford University Press in China\, Lau is completing a PhD at Hong Kong Baptist University.He participates courtesy of the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation. \n  \n\nTilottama Majumder (fiction writer and poet; India) won the Ananda Puroshkar\, given for excellence in Bengali literature\, for her novel Basudhara (2003); more than ten titles have followed. Her fiction and poetry have been translated into several Indian languages\, including English; she also writes for children. She works at the Ananda Publishers in Kolkata. Her participation is courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. \n  \n\n \nWipas Srithong (fiction writer; Thailand) has published three novels\, many short stories\, and collections of English-language and concrete poetry. His debut novel\, Kon Krae (The Dwarf)\, won the 2012 S.E.A. Write Award for Novels; his subsequent two novels were long- and short-listed for it. His stories have won the Kukrij Pramote and P.E.N. (Thailand) awards. He participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. \n  \n\nAntoinette Tidjani Alou (fiction writer\, poet\, translator\, and scholar; Niger) teaches literature and directs the Program for Performing Arts at Abdou Moumouni University in Niamey. She has been the president of the International Society for Oral Literatures of Africa and a collaborator on the “Women Writing Africa” project. Her first work\, On m’appelle Nina\, retraces the exilic experiences of a woman who leaves Jamaica for France\, then Niger. A short story collection\, a volume of poetry\, and a memoir are forthcoming. She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State. URL:https://hugohouse.org/event/international-writing-program-fall-residency-reading-2/ LOCATION:1634 11th Ave.\, Seattle\, WA\, 98112\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR