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Spring 2024 Virtual Readings
Join us for this spring’s Virtual Reading Series! Register Here: Susan Brind Morrow Reading Register Here: Kate Neville Register Here: Robert Michael Pyle
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The Sowell First Book Series: The River Why by David James Duncan
Join us as we discover, revisit, and discuss the debut publications of Sowell authors in the “Sowell First Book Series.” We begin with David James Duncan’s The River Why (1983) — a classic coming-of-age comedy that explores the human connection to nature and community. David James Duncan’s debut novel The River Why is a novel…
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2023 Sowell Conference
Join us April 6-8, 2023! Our annual conference is back with a reading by Annick Smith and our keynote speaker, Howard Norman. Zoom Registration Links Writing for a World in Eco-Crisis https://texastech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEod–vrT8jGNfvTDu4c_7bOdlnlNcWzcJj 2023 Sowell Emerging Writers Prize https://texastech.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdOusrD4uGtZMddWKAnwqnvO9BUrI-KOw Howard Norman, While Suspended On A Cliff at Point Reyes, I Thought of Gretel Ehrlich and Barry…
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New Collection Preview: Robert Wrigley Papers, 1952-2022 and undated
Robert Wrigley was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, on February 27, 1951. He was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1971, but was discharged as a conscientious objector. He was the first in his family to graduate from college and the first male for generations to escape work in a coal mine. Wrigley earned…
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#ArtifactFriday
Appropriate that our last October artifact highlights the Stephen Graham Jones Papers. This delightfully gory illustration is found on the envelope of a thank you card from Jones’s students. Copyright is retained by the authors of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by U.S. copyright law.
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#ArtifactFriday
Paul Hawken do be conferring. (At least 167 times)
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Recommended Reading (October 2022)
The Fall 2022 Sowell Virtual Reading Series kicks off with a reading from American Zion by Betsy Gaines Quammen on October 27 at 6:30 p.m. (CDT). Mark Stoll will moderate. Register HERE. “The [American] West is full of stories,” writes Betsy Gaines Quammen, and American Zion is “the story of the emergence of rancher Cliven…
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#ArtifactFriday
BFFs Max Crawford and Michael Koepf co-wrote Icarus (1989). The Sowell Collection houses the papers of both writers, including correspondence, drafts, and research material for their novel. From the Michael Koepf Papers, 1961-2019 and undated (Box 8, Folder 11)