An Evening with Past Writers Residency Authors
An Evening with Past Writers Residency Authors
Help us welcome three writers from our first Willa Cather Residency for Writers cohort as they share recent publications! Joanna Biggs, Richard Scott Larson, and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum will all read excerpts from their books as they reflect on their unique writers in residence experiences.
A Life of One's Own: Nine Women Writers Begin Again by Joanna Biggs explores the writing habits and working conditions of notable women writers such as George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, and Sylvia Plath juxtaposed against the social and cultural expectations that influence the creative lives of all women.
The Long Hallway chronicles author Richard Scott Larson's search for identity in his childhood. Although his upbringing had the air of suburban safety, Larson was nevertheless subjected to threatening experiences that made a lasting impact that also fostered a lifelong interest in film.
Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum's Elita tells the story of a child development scholar living in the Pacific Northwest in 1951 who encounters a nonverbal child who has been discovered loving in the woods near a local penitentiary. Tensions emerge as the community learns more about this child and her connection to long-held local secrets.
This event is free with online registration.
The views expressed in this program are not necessarily the views of the Willa Cather Foundation.
