Des Moines Area Community College recently issued the following announcement.
The event is being held virtually this year
- Amy Hempel's “Collected Stories" was named one of the 10 best books of 2007 by the New York Times.
- Megan Mayhew Bergmann is the author of three books, “Birds of a Lesser Paradise," “Almost Famous Women" and “How Strange a Season."
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.
Amy Hempel is the author of “Reasons to Live," “At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom," “Tumble Home," and “The Dog of the Marriage," and is co-editor of “Unleashed." Her stories have appeared in Harper's, GQ, Vanity Fair and many other publications, and have been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction.
Her “Collected Stories" was named by the New York Times as one of the 10 best books of 2007, and won the Ambassador Book Award for Best Fiction of the Year. In 2008, she received the REA Award for the Short Story, and in 2009 she received the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.
She earned a B.A. in Journalism from San Jose State University, and has taught at Sarah Lawrence, The New School, Duke, Princeton and currently teaches at Harvard, too. She lives in New York City.
Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of three books, “Birds of a Lesser Paradise," “Almost Famous Women," and “How Strange a Season," forthcoming from Scribner in March 2022. She is currently writing a book on the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, also with Scribner.
Mayhew Bergman is a journalist, essayist and critic. She has written columns on climate change and the natural world for The Guardian and The Paris Review. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Tin House, Ploughshares, Oxford American, Orion and elsewhere.
Her short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2011 and 2015, and on NPR's Selected Shorts. She was awarded the Garrett Award for Fiction and the Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award for Journalism, and, previously, fellowships at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the American Library in Paris.
She currently teaches literature and environmental writing at Middlebury College, where she also serves as Director of the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers' Conference.
To attend the readings by Hempel and Mayhew Berman, go to the following Zoom ink: https://DMACC.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YxiTpA2YTamhVSvuNrUkdQ
The Zoom meeting is free and open to the public. For more on DMACC's Celebration of Literary Arts, contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu
Selected Writings by Amy Hempel:
"In the Cemetery Where Al Jolson is Buried," http://fictionaut.com/stories/amy-hempel/in-the-cemetery-where-al-jolson-is-buried
"The Harvest," https://www.pifmagazine.com/1998/09/the-harvest/
Selected Writings Megan Mayhew Bergman:
"Wife Days," https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a36051305/megan-mayhew-bergman-wife-days-short-story/
"A Taste for Lionfish," https://www.narrativemagazine.com/issues/narrative-backstage/fiction/taste-lionfish-megan-mayhew-bergman
Original source can be found here.
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