Discussion 6:30-8pm, 21+
Switchyard Brewing Company, 419 North Walnut Street
Free Event. Please RSVP Here.
Join Monroe County Public Library and Granfalloon for the May edition of Books On Tap. It's the book club with a twist! Enjoy fantastic drinks, a comfortable atmosphere, and a great discussion on a variety of compelling books. This month, we’ll be celebrating the upcoming Granfalloon by reading visiting author Ted Chiang's Exhalation: Stories.
9am – 5pm
Gayle Karch Cook Center, 750 East Kirkwood Avenue
Registration open now!
The Indiana University Writers’ Conference is the second oldest, continually-operating writers conference in the United States. This year marks the 82nd anniversary of the conference which has stood for literary excellence since its inception. We are proud to boast a faculty that has included lauded writers of the post-WWII years, such as Katherine Anne Porter, Lillian Hellman and Stephen Spender, as well as 20th century icons Raymond Carver and Kurt Vonnegut.
Each summer, the conference invites gifted writers of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction to teach workshops and craft classes over the course of four days. The workshops consist of three-hour sessions held each morning in which students exchange manuscripts and offer feedback on the work of their peers under the guidance of their instructor. At the end of each day’s workshop, students are invited to lunch talks where the faculty discuss their publishing experiences and answer questions from attendees.
The afternoons are comprised of three, one-hour classes led by additional faculty on topics ranging from story structure and the ethics of writing nonfiction to crafting compelling images in poems. Each evening is capped off by a reading and from conference faculty.
2023 Conference Faculty
- Marilyn Chin, poetry workshop
- Megan Giddings, fiction workshop
- Larns Horn, memoir workshop
- Taylor Johnson, poetry class
- Alexander Weinstein, fiction class
- Hannah Bae, Nonfiction class
Reading @ 7pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 East Kirkwood Avenue
The IU Arts and Humanities Council is thrilled to be hosting Ted Chiang as part of the 2023 Granfalloon Festival. Chiang’s fiction has won more than two dozen prizes -- including four Hugo, four Nebula, and four Locus awards – and has been featured in The Best American Short Stories. The Oscar-nominated film, Arrival, was based on his novella, “Story of Your Life.” Given this year’s festival themes of technology and creativity, automation, and the rise of the computer age (taken from Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano), Chiang’s prescient and immensely thoughtful science-fiction is a perfect fit.
For more information on Ted Chiang, please visit www.prhspeakers.com.
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Reading @ 12pm
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 East Kirkwood Avenue
Tickets on sale March 28
The IU Arts and Humanities Council is thrilled to be hosting Meg Cabot as part of the 2023 Granfalloon Festival. Meg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana during the Chinese astrological year of the Fire Horse, a notoriously unlucky sign, but learned at an early age that a good storyteller can always give herself a happy ending. Her 80+ books for both adults and tweens/teens have included multiple #1 New York Times bestsellers, selling over twenty-five million copies worldwide. Her Princess Diaries series has been published in more than 38 countries and was made into two hit films by Disney. Meg’s numerous other award-winning books include the Mediator series, the Heather Wells mystery series, and Avalon High, the later of which was made into a film for Disney Channel. Meg Cabot (her last name rhymes with habit, as in “her books can be habit forming”) currently lives in Key West with her husband and various cats.
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Class @ 1pm
Gayle Karch Cook Center, 750 East Kirkwood Avenue
Free event!
A free and fun way to bookend the festival! Join us for a discussion of Kurt Vonnegut’s first novel, Player Piano, with IU Writers’ Conference Director Bob Bledsoe and IU Arts and Humanities Council Director Ed Dallis-Comentale.