Des Moines Area Community College recently issued the following announcement.
DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts Will Be Held Virtually This Year
- Alix Ohlin (above, left) has written six books of fiction and is the Director of the University of British Columbia School of Creative Writing.
- Steven Schwartz (above, right) is the author of four collections of stories and two novels and is a Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State University.
Award-winning authors Alix Ohlin and Steven Schwartz will help kick-off the 2022 DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts from Noon to 1 p.m. on Tues., Feb. 8, when they read from their works and participate in a Q&A during a FREE virtual event held via Zoom (register here).
The Annual DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, now in its 19th year, will be held virtually again this year. Local, regional and national authors will read from their works during weekly, one-hour events held online via Zoom. All events are free and open to the public.
Alix Ohlin has written six books of fiction, most recently a story collection called "We Want What We Want." Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, and many other places. She lives in Vancouver and is the Director of the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Creative Writing.
Steven Schwartz is the author of four collections of stories: "To Leningrad in Winter," "Lives of the Fathers," "Little Raw Souls" and "Madagascar: New and Selected Stories." In addition, he has written the novels "Therapy" and "A Good Doctor's Son."
His fiction has received the Nelson Algren Award, the Sherwood Anderson Prize, the Ploughshares Cohen Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Colorado Book Award for the Novel and for Literary Fiction, and two O. Henry Prize Story Awards. His nonfiction has been published in the Gettysburg Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Image and has received the Cleanth Brooks Prize in Nonfiction from the Southern Review.
Schwartz is Professor Emeritus of English at Colorado State, where he taught in the Master of Fine Arts Creative Writing Program for 30 years. He now serves as fiction editor for Colorado Review. His latest novel is "The Tenderest of Strings."
How to attend:
To attend this FREE virtual event with Ohlin and Schwartz, register here.
For more on the DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, click here or contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu.
Selected Writings by Ohlin:
- "Quarantine"
- "Casino"
- "The Theory of Everything"
- "Selected Stories"
Original source can be found here.
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