Please join us Friday November 9th for The Vermont College of Fine Art's Friday Night Reading and Reception with authors James Scott, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, & Sean Prentiss.
The reading will take place at Cafe Anna (on the first floor of College Hall, 36 College Street, Montpelier) from 5:30-7:30pm. As always, the event and snacks are free, and drinks are available for purchase.
Come join us for an inspiring literary evening!
James Scott earned his bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and his MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. He has received awards from the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the New York State Summer Writers Institute, the Millay Colony, the Saint Botolph Club, the Tin House Summer Writer's Conference, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is the author of the novel, The Kept, from Harper and his short fiction has been short listed for the Pushcart Prize and nominated for the Best New American Voices.
Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, receipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, and The Guardian, it was an Indie Next Pick and a Junior Library Guild selection, long-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, and a finalist for a New England Book Award and a Goodreads Choice Award. The recipient of fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, MacDowell, and Yaddo, as well as a Rona Jaffe Award, Marzano-Lesnevich lives in Portland, Maine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College.
Sean Prentiss is an award winning writer. Finding Abbey: The Search for Edward Abbey and His Hidden Desert Grave won the 2015 winner of the National Outdoor Book Award for History/Biography, the Utah Book Award for Nonfiction, and the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for biography.
He is the co-editor of an anthology on the craft of creative nonfiction, entitled The Far Edges of the Fourth Genre, and the co-editor of a forthcoming anthology, entitled the Science of Story: The Brain Behind Creative Nonfiction.
He is also the co-author of Environmental and Nature Writer: A Craft Guide and Anthology and the forthcoming Advanced Creative Nonfiction. Sean also publishes magazine articles and is the creative editor for Backcountry Magazine.
When he is not writing, traveling, canoeing, or hiking, Sean is a faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts in their Writing and Publishing program and is an associate professor of writing at Norwich University.
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