17th Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series presents Brit Bennett
Great Writers, Great Readings presents fiction writer Brit Bennett in conversation with Hofstra Professor
Martha McPhee. Born and raised in Southern California, Brit Bennett graduated from Stanford University and later earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award in Graduate Short Fiction. In 2014, she received the Hurston/Wright Award for College Writers. She is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, and her debut novel The Mothers was a New York Times bestseller. Her second novel The Vanishing Half was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller. Her essays have been featured in The New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, The Paris Review, and Jezebel.
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and MFA in Creative Writing Program, in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.
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Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Location: Virtual Event; Advance Registration required. Registrants will be sent an event link to attend prior to the event.
Great Writers, Great Readings events is free and open to the public. For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 or visit hofstra.edu/gwgr.
This event is free, but advance registration is required. Please RVSP using the RSVP for this Event link.
Photo: Emma Trim
Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Cost:
FreeCategories:
- Cultural
- Cultural Center
- Display
- HCLAS
- Lectures
- School of Humanities, Fine and Perf Arts
- Virtual Event
- Writing Studies and Rhetoric
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Hofstra Cultural CenterPhone: 516-463-5669
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