Members of the Athens community are invited to a celebration of Grady College’s Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Narrative Fiction program.
Athens residents are invited to join graduates, current students and faculty for ‘Telling True Stories: An Evening With Writers from the University of Georgia's MFA in Narrative Nonfiction Program.’ Authors and grads like Andre Gallant, will read from their works and provide information on storytelling and the process of getting a degree from the program.
“We’re going to have a short program,” Gallant said. “We’re going to have drinks and hors d’oeuvres as usual, the National is catering and we’ll have beer and wine. We’re going to have a handful of students, graduates, including myself, do short readings and kind of talk about the power of nonfiction, the power of storytelling.”
Program creator and Grady faculty member Valerie Boyd will also read at the event.
Featured readers include Georgia-based journalists and MFA graduates Max Blau (New York Times, Bitter Southerner), Lori Johnston (Washington Post, AJC), Rosalind Bentley (New York Times, AJC), and André Gallant (Garden and Gun, Oxford American).
Gallant says writers, would-be writers and nonwriters are welcome.
“I hope that all the folks who maybe envision themselves creating a writing life for themselves who might interested in joining a program like ours, who have a book idea that they maybe have always wanted to tackle, who wish that they could write their memoirs, who want to write creative nonfiction for literary journals, who want to write long form for magazines like the Bitter Southerner or Oxford American or Atlanta Magazine. I hope they come and meet their feature colleagues.”
The event is this evening from 7-9 PM at Lotta Mae's 585 Barber St. and it is free and open to the public.
