RIVER CITY WRITERS SERIES Celebrates 30th Anniversary

The River City Writers Series at the University of Memphis is thrilled to announce it's spectacular fall 2007 line-up: With a memoirist and reporter, the author of a book just released as a blockbuster movie, and a Pulitzer Prize winning poet, you won't want to miss any of these events. Two of these readings will be held off campus and all will feature receptions with beverages and snacks before each event. As always, River City Writers Series events are free and open to the public. Our author line-up this year:

Joyce Maynard is the best-selling author of the memoir At Home in the World and four novels. She has been a reporter for the New York Times, a magazine journalist, a syndicated columnist, and an NPR commentator.

When: October 24, 2007

Where: Wilson Gallery at the Holiday Inn University, 3700 Central Avenue
Reception, 6:00 p.m., Reading. 7:00 in the Overton Room. Book signing to follow reading.

Charles Baxter is the author of A Feast of Love, a just-released major motion picture starring Morgan Freeman and Greg Kinnear. He is the author of four collections of short stories, three collections of poems, four novels and a collection of essays on fiction, and more.

When: October 29, 2007

Where: Galloway Mansion, 1822 Overton Park Avenue
Reception, 6:00 p.m., Reading. 7:00. Book signing to follow reading.

C. K. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for his book of poems Repair. He is one of the nation's leading poets and winner of innumerable awards, including a National Book Award, a National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pushcart Prize. Williams has ten collections of poetry to his credit as well as a memoir and several works of translation.

When: November 15, 2007

Where: Pink Palace Museum Ballroom, 3050 Central Avenue

Special 30th Anniversary Reception, 6:00 p.m., Reading. 7:00. Book signing to follow
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