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Katy Didden Reads at Bread Loaf

Katy Didden reads two poems, “Eve of the Ascent” and “Embrace Them All,” at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Didden is the author of The Glacier’s Wake, winner of the 2012 Lena Miles Wever–Todd Prize from Pleiades Press, published in 2013. She has an MFA from the University of Maryland, and a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri. A recent Hodder fellow at Princeton University, Katy is currently an assistant professor at Ball State University. She recently traveled to Iceland, where she researched materials for her new manuscript “The Lava on Iceland.”

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

Mid Week Break

Matthew Neill Null Reads at Bread Loaf

Matthew Neill Null reads an excerpt from “Natural Resources,” from the collection Allegheny Front, at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Null is a writer from West Virginia, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a winner of an O. Henry Award, the Mary McCarthy Prize, and the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts & Letters. He is author of the novel Honey from the Lion, as well as his story collection. He has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America, the St. Botolph Club Foundation, and the University of Iowa. He is currently in residence at the American Academy in Rome.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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Naomi Jackson Reads at Bread Loaf

Naomi Jackson reads from her novel, The Star Side of Bird Hill, at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

The Star Side of Bird Hill, published by Penguin Press, was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and named an Honor Book for Fiction by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

Jackson studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She traveled to South Africa on a Fulbright scholarship, where she received an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cape Town. A graduate of Williams College, her work has appeared in literary journals and magazines in the United States and abroad. She is the recipient of residencies and fellowships from Hedgebrook, the University of Pennsylvania’s Kelly Writers House, and Camargo Foundation. Jackson was born and raised in Brooklyn by West Indian parents. She is currently a Visiting Writer at Amherst College.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

 

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Alexander Chee Reads at Bread Loaf

Alexander Chee reads an excerpt from his novel, The Queen of the Night, at the 2016 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Chee is the author of the novels Edinburgh (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) and The Queen of the Night (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016). He is a contributing editor at the New Republic, and an editor at large at VQR. His essays and stories have appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Tin House, Slate, Guernica, NPR, and Out, among others. He is the winner of a 2003 Whiting Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in prose, and a 2010 MCCA Fellowship, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Civitella Ranieri, and Amtrak. He has taught writing at Wesleyan University, Amherst College, the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of Texas–Austin. He is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.

All Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference readings are available online. To hear more, please visit the Bread Loaf website.

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