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All readings take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Center of Fine and Performing Arts Gallery, Building 82. A reception will precede each event at 7 p.m. The events are free and open to the public. All readings are sponsored by the UWF Department of English and Foreign Languages. For more information, contact Professor Jonathan Fink at jfink@uwf.edu.
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Dale Young practices medicine full-time, serves as Poetry Editor of the New
England Review, and teaches in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for
Writers. He is the author of The Day Underneath the Day (TriQuarterlyBooks,
2001), The Second Person (Four Way Books, 2007), and he is currently
completing a third book manuscript of poems titled TORN. He is a previous
winner of the Grolier Prize, the Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Poetry from
the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Stanley P. Young Fellowship in Poetry
from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Young has taught at several writers'
conferences, including the Catskill Poetry Workshops and the Napa Valley Writers'
Conference. His poems have appeared in many anthologies and magazines, including The
Best American Poetry, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, Legitimate
Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The New Republic, The
Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. He lives in
San Francisco with the biologist and composer, Jacob Bertrand. (Photo credit:
Marion Ettlinger).
The Department of English and Foreign Languages is pleased to sponsor the Laurie O’Brien Creative Writing Awards for full-time undergraduate and graduate students currently enrolled at the University of West Florida. Each of the six awards carries a $50 cash prize and a featured reading by the author at the Awards Night Writers in the Gallery. Awards for the best poetry, fiction and nonfiction by a currently enrolled University of West Florida student will be given on both the graduate and undergraduate level.
