Althea Ward Clark W’21 Reading Series

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In celebration of its 80th Anniversary, the Program in Creative Writing kicks off the season with a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa, Ojibwe novelist and non-fiction writer David Treuer '92, and National Book Award-winning writer Maxine Hong Kingston as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.

Poet Andrew Motion and Princeton Professor of Creative Writing and nonfiction writer Aleksandar Hemon read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.

Kiev-based novelist Andrey Kurkov and fiction writer, poet and essayist Sapphire, whose best-selling novel Push was adapted into the Academy Award-winning film Precious, read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.

Selected students from fall courses in Creative Writing read from their work in fiction, poetry, screenwriting and literary translation.

Fiction writer, playwright, and journalist Sheila Heti and 23rd U.S. Poet Laureate, memoirist and musician Joy Harjo read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.

American Book Award-winning poet Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and National Book Award-winning fiction writer Yoko Tawada read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED. Fiction writer Kaitlyn Greenidge, fiction writer Helen Oyeyemi, and poet and 2019-20 Hodder Fellow Nicole Sealey read from their work as part of the Althea Ward Clark W'21 Reading Series.