Thursday, March 27, 2008
Hot young writer comes to RopeWalk April 14
 Please note: this event has been postponed until Monday, April 14On Monday, April 14, RopeWalk Reading Series welcomes Benjamin Percy. He will read his work at 5 p.m. in Kleymeyer Hall in the Liberal Arts Center. The Sundance Institute accepted a screenplay based on his short story collection Refresh, Refresh for its 2007 June Directors and Screenwriters Labs. He also is the author of the collection The Language of Elk (2006). He is the recipient of the 2007 Plimpton Prize, awarded annually by the editors of The Paris Review. He also received the Pushcart Prize Fellowship and the John Gardner Fellowship in Fiction from the Breadloaf Writer's Conference in 2007. Esquire commissioned him to write a short story for its May 2008 issue. His essay “Wal-Mart and the Apocalypse and Me” appeared in the 20th anniversary issue of Green Mountains Review. Percy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and his Master of Fine Arts degree with a teaching fellowship from Southern Illinois University. He teaches creative writing, composition, and literature at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Presented by the College of Liberal Arts, the RopeWalk Reading Series is made possible through the support of RopeWalk Writers Retreat, the Southern Indiana Review, USI Society for Arts & Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, Indiana Arts Commission, and USI Student Writers’ Union. For more information, contact Nicole Reid, co-director of the reading series, at 812/464-1916. |
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