Fairfield University hosts popular authors – Hollis Seamon and Michael Sweeney. Events are free and open to the public.
Fairfield University is proud to host the authors Hollis Seamon and Michael Sweeney through the Inspired Writers Series:
Hollis Seamon, author of Somebody Up There Hates You: Writing For Your Life, will be discussing her novel at the Barone Campus Center Oak Room at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, April 20. The novel tells the tale of Richard Casey, a funny, smart-mouthed, cancer stricken seventeen-year old, who finds love at an unusual time: during his final week of hospice care. Publishers Weekly said of the book, “Even in hospice, a lot can happen in a short time... Being near death doesn’t mean abandoning hope for the life that remains.”
This reading will be preceded by a Writing Illness Panel Discussion led by Seamon, Meredith Kazer, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, dean of Fairfield University’s School of Nursing, and Michael White, Ph.D., director of Fairfield University’s MFA in Creative Writing Program. The panelists will discuss health and healing through a literary lens, which is a new focus for the MFA graduate program at Fairfield. The panel will take place at 2 p.m. in the Barone Campus Center Oak Room.
On Thursday, April 23 at 5 p.m., Michael Sweeney, author of Octagon Commonweal, will be discussing his engaging poem of quips and koans at the Fairfield University Bookstore. “Michael Sweeney’s Octagon Commonweal participates in the tradition of Wallace and Ginsberg…written in the grand old style of performance and exhortation,” said Kim Bridgford, author of Undone and Instead of Maps. This event is free and open to the public and will be presented by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and the Learning for a Lifetime program.