An Evening with Claire Vaye Watkins

Founded in 2003, the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University is a home for writers, readers, and the literary community, offering talks, readings, classes, workshops, and other literary programs and services. For more information, visit our website at http://piper.asu.edu.

The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing

A virtual reading and conversation on climate writing with author Claire Vaye Watkins

Join <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/230586/claire-vaye-watkins" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Claire Vaye Watkins</a>, award-winning author of the climate fiction novel <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/318277/gold-fame-citrus-by-claire-vaye-watkins/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gold Fame Citrus</a> and the short fiction collection <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/309743/battleborn-by-claire-vaye-watkins/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Battleborn</a>, for a virtual reading and a conversation about climate writing, Friday, April 9, 2021 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. MST/PDT (Phoenix, AZ*). Claire also served as the lead judge for Arizona State University's <a href="https://climateimagination.asu.edu/clificontest/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Everything Change climate fiction contest</a> in 2020. During the event, we will share details about the forthcoming Everything Change anthology, a collection of the top stories from that contest.Presented by the <a href="https://climateimagination.asu.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative</a> at Arizona State University, a partnership between the <a href="https://csi.asu.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Center for Science and the Imagination</a> and the <a href="https://piper.asu.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing</a>.This event is open to the public and free. Zoom link will be sent the week of the event to anyone who has RSVPed in Eventbrite. This event will also be live-streamed via Facebook at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PiperCenter/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.facebook.com/PiperCenter/</a>.*Please note: this event takes place virtually in Phoenix MST/PDT. As Phoenix does not observe daylight savings time, determining the correct time outside of Arizona can be somewhat confusing. To view the current time in Phoenix, Arizona, you can check the <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meeting.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">world time clock</a>. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Piper Center at pipercenter.info@asu.edu. About the AuthorClaire Vaye Watkins is the author of the novel Gold Fame Citrus and the short story collection Battleborn, winner of the Story Prize, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award, and the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among other prizes. A National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree, Watkins is a professor at the University of California Irvine and lives in Twenty-nine Palms, California.About the Distinguished Visiting Writers SeriesThis event is presented as part of the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series from the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. To find more author talks and readings, visit our website at <a href="http://piper.asu.edu/events/visiting-writers?fbclid=IwAR3B30U7cmQt_pKU2Q90BQze4fsEXTPZhIrfeI8nlnlh71chROAy32XuZR8" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://piper.asu.edu/events/visiting-writers</a>.

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