The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series features both emerging and internationally-acclaimed writers, allowing students, faculty, and community members to engage with important figures in contemporary literature through classroom meetings, public readings, and question and answer sessions. This series serves as an important experiential learning opportunity for students, creating a unique career and professional development opportunity, and inviting students to experience contemporary literature both in and outside of the classroom. Additionally, it provides a meaningful cultural and literary experience for members of the public, enhancing Terre Haute’s vibrant literary community. With readings held in the University Art Gallery, the series celebrates multidisciplinary relationships among the arts. The writers who visit ISU for the Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series serve as an inspiration to our students and members of our community.
The Theodore Dreiser Visiting Writers Series is made possible through generous support from the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, the Indiana Arts Commission, and Arts Illiana. All readings are free and open to the public. This year, our readings will be held virtually through Zoom.
Upcoming Events
Sara Henning
Thursday, October 20th, 2022
Yang Family University Art Gallery.
300 North 7th Street
6:00 pm
Sara Henning’s forthcoming collection of poems, Burn (Southern Illinois University Press, 2023), was chosen by Allison Joseph as the 2022 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor’s Selection. Her second award-winning collection of poems, Terra Incognita (Ohio University Press, 2022), was chosen by Rebecca Morgan Frank for the 2021 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. View from True North was chosen by Adrian Matejka for the 2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Award (Southern Illinois University Press, 2018), and it went on to win the 2019 High Plains Book Award. She was awarded a 2015 Crazyhorse Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize, the 2019 Poetry Society of America's George Bogin Memorial Award, First Prize in the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award (Passaic County Community College), and a Tennessee Williams Scholarship in poetry to the 2019 Sewanee Writers' Conference. Her work has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Southern Humanities Review, Witness, Meridian, and the Cincinnati Review. She is an assistant professor of English at Marshall University.
Contact Information
Dr. Amy Ash
Director of Creative Writing
Root Hall A-215
424 North 7th Street
Terre Haute, IN 47809-1928
Amy.Ash@indstate.edu
