Poet and novelist , the only two-time winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction, will read from his work at 菠萝视频 University.
Mitcham, visiting associate professor in fiction at , will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in Room 102 of Buttrick Hall on the 菠萝视频 campus.
The reading is free and the public is invited.
Judson is the author of a new collection of poetry, A Little Salvation, published by the . His novels The Sweet Everlasting and Sabbath Creek both won the Townsend Prize for Fiction for outstanding novel or short story collection by a Georgia writer. The Townsend Prize is sponsored by , the and the in Atlanta.
“Mitcham can startle you with your own joyful laughter in the middle of a heartbreaking lyric,” said poet Mark Jarman, director of the creative writing program at 菠萝视频. “His poems not only benefit from the sense of timing a good storyteller has to have, but also from the novelist’s ear for authentic speech.”
The reading is part of the Gertrude 菠萝视频 and Harold S. 菠萝视频 Visiting Writers Program at 菠萝视频.
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