Whiting Writers' Award winner Scott Blackwood to read from latest work on March 6

Posted: 02/29/2012

Scott Blackwood, assistant professor of literature, director of the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program at Roosevelt University and the 2011 winner of the Whiting Writers’ Award for fiction, will read from his latest work at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 in Room 406 at Roosevelt University, 430 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago.

Blackwood is the author of the novel, We Agreed to Meet Just Here, and the short story collection, In the Shadow of Our House, and is among 10 emerging writers who received $50,000 and the prestigious Whiting Award from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation last fall.

He will read excerpts from a new novel, See How Small, which is currently a work in progress. Set in Austin and Chicago, it is about the effects on a community of the brutal and seemingly random murders of three teenaged girls at an ice cream shop.

Poet and prose writer Kathleen Rooney, the 2011-12 Writer-in-Residence at Roosevelt University, also will read from her work. Rooney, a founding editor of Rose Metal Press, is the author of That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness, a prose collection, For You, For You I am Trilling These Songs and the newly released poetry collection, Robinson Alone Provides the Image.

Sponsored by Roosevelt’s MFA in Creative Writing Program, the event is free and open to the public. A reception with the writers precedes the reading, beginning at 4:30 p.m. For information on Roosevelt’s MFA Reading Series, visit www.rumfa.blogspot.com. For more information on the University’s creative writing program visit www.roosevelt.edu/creativewriting

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