Emerging Writers Festival: Charleston + Park

Please join us for the first night of the MFA in Writing Program‘s Emerging Writers Festival. Each spring, five emerging writers are invited to campus to participate in the festival, which includes two nights of readings and a Q&A Panel. Night one will feature Cortney Lamar Charleston and Patricia Park.

Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2016 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem and The Conversation Literary Festival and his poems have appeared in POETRY, New England Review, Gulf Coast, TriQuarterly, and The Iowa Review. Charleston is from Chicago and lives in Jersey City, NJ.

Patricia Park is the author of the novel Re Jane (Viking, 2015), inspired by Brontë’s Jane Eyre. She has received fellowships from Fulbright, The Center for Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Jerome Foundation, and has written for The New York Times Book Review, Guardian, Salon, and Slice. Park is a Queens native and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.

The Emerging Writers Festival is co-sponsored by the USF MFA in Writing Program and the English Department.