Spring 2024 Writer's Workshop Reading Series
We welcome Trey Moody, Kelcey Ervick, Julia Iromuanya, Christine Burright, Julia Kramer, Joshua Wheeler, and Natalie Padilla Young to the Spring 2024 Writer's Workshop Reading Series! All events are free and open to the public.
Trey Moody | Wed | Feb 28 | 7:30 P.M. | UNO Art Gallery | Weber Fine Arts
Trey Moody was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. The author of Autoblivion (Conduit Books, 2023), winner of the Minds on Fire Open Book Prize, and Thought That Nature (Sarabande Books, 2014), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry, he has received the Poetry Society of America Robert H. Winner Memorial Award and his poems have appeared in The Atlantic, The Believer, and New England Review. A graduate of Texas State University and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he teaches at Creighton University and lives with his daughter in Omaha.
Kelcey Ervick | Wed | Mar 20 | 7:30 P.M. | BC Dodge Room
Kelcey Ervick is the author and illustrator of the graphic memoir, The Keeper: Soccer, Me, and the Law That Changed Women’s Lives, winner of a 2023 Ohioana Book Award. Her three previous award-winning books of fiction and nonfiction are The Bitter Life of Božena Němcová, Liliane’s Balcony, and For Sale By Owner.
She is co-editor, with Tom Hart, of The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Graphic Literature. Kelcey’s stories, essays, and comics have appeared in The Rumpus, The Believer, Washington Post, Lit Hub. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati and is a professor of English and creative writing at Indiana University South Bend.
Co-sponsored by Criss Library and UNO Department of English
Julia Iromuanya | Wed | Mar 27 | 7:30 P.M. | UNO Art Gallery | Weber Fine Arts
Julia Iromuanya is the author of Mr. and Mrs. Doctor, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Her scholarly-critical work most recently appears in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; Callaloo: A Journal of African American Arts and Letters; Afropolitan Literature as World Literature, and the Georgia Review. Iromuanya earned her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
She is an assistant professor for the Program in Creative Writing at the University of Chicago and affiliate faculty of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality and the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture. Her second novel, A Season of Light, is forthcoming in 2024.
Christine Burright & Julia Kramer | Wed | Apr 3 | 7:30 P.M. | Benson Theatre
Christine Burright is a screenwriter currently based out of Omaha. Her television pilots and screenplays have been named finalists in NBC Writers on the Verge, Launch Pad Pilots, Atlanta Film Festival and the John Milius Screenwriting Award. Her first produced feature screenplay The Headliner will premiere in Spring 2024. Christine directs and produces short films and is also the co-founder of a recently-launched animation production studio.
Julia Kramer is a screenwriter and recent graduate from UNO, where she earned a B.F.A. degree in Creative Writing, with a concentration in Screenwriting. In the spring of 2023, she was selected to represent the Writer’s Workshop as a reader for the New Voices Reading Series. Her short film script, A Laurel Wreath, was directed by Christine Burright and is in production with CFS Studios.
Joshua Wheeler | Wed | Apr 17 | 7:30 P.M. | Criss Library
Joshua Wheeler is from Alamogordo, New Mexico. He’s the author of ACID WEST: Essays, published in 2018 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG Originals). ACID WEST was a finalist for the Western Writers Spur Award and the New Mexico Book Award, and was included in Best Books lists by TIME, The Paris Review, and Oprah’s O Magazine. His essays and features have appeared in The Iowa Review, Southern Review, Gulf Coast, Harper’s, BuzzFeed News, NY Times and others. He teaches at Louisiana State University and lives in New Orleans.
Natalie Padilla Young | Wed | May 1 | 7:30 P.M. | UNO Art Gallery | Weber Fine Arts
Natalie Padilla Young co-founded and manages the poetry magazine Sugar House Review. By day, she works as an art director for a Salt Lake City ad agency. Her first book All of This Was Once Under Water is out from Quarter Press. Natalie’s poetry has appeared in Green Mountains Review, Tampa Review, Rattle, South Dakota Review, Los Angeles Times, Tar River Poetry, and Terrain.org. She serves on the Utah Arts Advisory and Lightscatter Press boards, and lives in southern Utah with the poet Nano Taggart and two dogs.