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PLOUGHSHARES to Celebrate 40th Anniversary at Joe's Pub, 4/20
By: Kelsey Denette Apr. 05, 2012
Ploughshares literary magazine, based at Emerson College in Boston, is guest-edited serially by prominent authors who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. Former guest editors include Yusef Komunyakaa, Elizabeth Strout, Jim Shepard, Margot Livesey, and Nick Flynn. www.pshares.org/
Nick Flynn is the author of three collections of poetry, including most recently, The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands and two memoirs The Ticking is the Bomb and Another Bullshit Night in Suck City. He has won numerous awards and is the executive producer and artistic collaborator on Being Flynn, the film version of Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (due out in 2012 from Focus Features. He shares his time between New York and Houston, where he teaches one semester each year.
Margot Livesey is the author of seven novels, the most recent The Flight of Gemma Hardy, and a collection of stories. She has won many awards for her work, including the PEN Winship award. The fiction editor for Ploughshares, she is a distinguished-writer-in-residence at Emerson College in Boston.
Jim Shepard is the author of six novels, including Project X, and four story collections, including most recently You Think That’s Bad and Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won The Story Prize. He teaches at Williams College.
Elizabeth Strout's most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of two previous bestselling novels, Abide With Me, and Amy and Isabelle, which, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Elizabeth Strout's most recent work, Olive Kitteridge, a novel in stories, won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize, was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a New York Times bestseller. She is the author of two previous bestselling novels, Abide With Me, and Amy and Isabelle, which, was a finalist for the Orange Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
Founded by Pulitzer Prize-winner Philip Schultz and celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, The Writers Studio welcomes beginning and advanced students to ongoing writing workshops whose sole purpose is to help fiction writers and poets discover and nurture their own voices. It is founded on the belief that when the desire is strong enough, anyone can learn the technique necessary for full creative expression. www.writerstudio.com
THE WRITERS STUDIO READING SERIES
celebrates
The 40th Anniversary of
PLOUGHSHARES
Literary Magazine
with readings by
NICK FLYNN
YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA
MARGOT LIVESEY
JIM SHEPARD
ELIZABETH STROUT
Introduction by editor Ladette Randolph
Book signing to follow reading
WHEN: FRIDAY, APRIL 20 at 7:00 P.M.
WHERE: JOE'S PUB, 425 LAFAYETTE STREET, NYC (Btw. East 4th and Astor Place)
TICKETS: $12 | 212-967-7555 | www.joespub.com
www.writerstudio.com / 212-255-7075
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