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An Evening with Claire Vaye Watkins
A virtual reading and conversation on climate writing with author Claire Vaye Watkins
By The Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at ASU
When and where
Date and time
Friday, April 9, 2021 · 6:30 - 8pm PDT
Location
Online
About this event
Join Claire Vaye Watkins, award-winning author of the climate fiction novel Gold Fame Citrus and the short fiction collection Battleborn, 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 Everything Change climate fiction contest 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 Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative at Arizona State University, a partnership between the Center for Science and the Imagination and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.
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 https://www.facebook.com/PiperCenter/.
*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 world time clock. If you have any questions, please reach out to the Piper Center at pipercenter.info@asu.edu.
About the Author
Claire 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 Series
This 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 http://piper.asu.edu/events/visiting-writers.
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About the organizer
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.