Summer 2008: Free literary reading series ends tonight

The inaugural Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Series of public lectures at UAA began Sunday evening, July 13, with noted novelist and short story writer Ron Carlson reading from his work. Altogether, 16 writers from Alaska and the Lower 48 will read for nine evenings, through July 22.

The Northern Renaissance Arts and Science Series of free public readings is part of the new Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts graduate writing program of the UAA Department of Creative Writing and Literary Arts (CWLA). The three-year low-residency MFA program includes a 12-day intensive summer residency at UAA, after which the student writers depart for their homes in Alaska and elsewhere to write and study under the guidance of individual writing mentors.

Click here for a schedule of public readings.