The UC San Diego Department of Literature’s New Writing Series returns this fall with a number of events taking place virtually! Learn from talented authors
Brontez Purnell is a writer, musician, dancer, filmmaker, and performance artist. Author of the novel Since I Laid My Burden Down, he is the recipient of a 2018 Whiting Award for fiction. He is also the frontman for the band the Younger Lovers, and co-founder of the experimental dance group, the Brontez Purnell Dance Company. His work intentionally defies categorization and limitation, seeking disruption and subversion of forms through multidisciplinary performative practice.
Teresa Carmody‘s writing includes fiction, creative nonfiction, inter-arts collaborations, and hybrid forms. Her books include Maison Femme: a fiction (2015) and The Reconception of Marie (2020), a finalist for the Big Other Fiction Award and Readers’ Choice Award. She writes about queerness, autotheory/fiction, friendship, spirituality, and with Shamea Cunningham, co-hosts Today Must be Sunday, a conversation series on Four Queens. She is co-founding editor of Les Figues Press, an imprint of LARB Books, and director of Stetson University’s MFA program.
This event is hosted by the Literature Department and will be archived and made available through the Library’s Archive for New Poetry in Special Collections & Archives.
Contact:
Camille F. Forbes
cfforbes@ucsd.edu
Registration:
https://ucsd.zoom.us/j/95789507375?pwd=amM5cjhQcW9aTGRiNk9kaW1LV1BBUT09