Postscripts
Upcoming events in September.
By Clay Smith, Fri., Sept. 8, 2000
Annie Proulx at KAP House
Annie Proulx will be at the Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center (508 Center Street in Kyle) on Wednesday, September 27, at 7:30pm. Proulx will officially open KAP's childhood home with a reading from her work, followed by a signing, and reception to follow. She will be the first writer to read and sign books at the Katherine Anne Porter House since its restoration, which was completed in May. Proulx's work includes the short story collections Heart Songs and Other Stories, The Wyoming Stories, and three novels: The Accordion Crimes, Postcards, which won the 1993 Pen Faulkner Award for fiction, and The Shipping News, for which she won the 1993 National Book Award for fiction, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Proulx's reading will be the first of 10 events in Southwest Texas State's Theresa Kayser Lindsey Lecture Series to occur in the house during the 2000-01 program. Proulx will revisit Porter's home on Friday, September 29, at 2:30pm, to help host a fiction panel with writers Tom Grimes, Debra Monroe, Leslie Marmon Silko, Dagoberto Gilb, and Tim O'Brien, all of whom teach in SWT's MFA program. See http://www.English.swt.edu/TKL/proulx.html for more information or call 512/ 245-7681... Liz Carpenter will be talking about her new book Start With a Laugh: An Insider's Guide to Roasts, Toasts, Eulogies, and Other Speeches at Barnes & Noble Westlake tonight, Thursday, September 7, at 7:30pm... The Austin Writers' League is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Violet Crown Book Awards on Thursday, September 21, at 7pm at Barnes & Noble Westlake. Finalists in the fiction category include Jim Sanderson for his crime novel, Safe Delivery; Karen Stolz for World of Pies, her evocation of small-town Texas; and Steven Saylor's A Twist at the End: A Novel of O. Henry. Nonfiction finalists are Spike Gillespie, All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy; Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness; and Carl Woodring, for Literature: An Embattled Profession. In the category titled "Poetry or Prose," finalists include Dave Parson for his poetry collection Editing Sky; Texas Poet Laureate James Hoggard's Medea in Taos and Other Poems; and Wendy Barker's poetry collection Way of Whiteness. Winners will be announced at the awards ceremony, when Glen Alyn, a 1993 winner and former AWL board member who died earlier this year, will be honored. Winners will receive $1,000, and actors will read selections from their works at the ceremony... The University of North Texas hosts the 18th Annual Craft of Writing Conference titled "Write Ahead: The Future of the Written Word," October 27-28. Co-sponsored by the Greater Dallas Writers Association, the conference is intended for writers of all stripes. See http://orgs.unt.edu/writingcraft for more information.
