Ahmed Naji

UNLV Lied Library The Goldfield Room (Third Floor) 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This reading features author and current City of Asylum Fellow at the Black Mountain Institute, Ahmed Naji. Ahmed Naji is a writer from Egypt currently living in Las Vegas. In 2016, Ahmed was sentenced to two years for publishing his novel Using Life. His imprisonment marks the first time in modern Egypt that an author […]

Iman Mersal

UNLV Lied Library The Goldfield Room (Third Floor) 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This event is a reading with Egyptian poet, essayist, translator, and literary scholar Iman Mersal. Iman Mersal is an Egyptian poet, essayist, translator and literary scholar. Currently Associate Professor of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Alberta, Canada, she is the author of five books of Arabic poetry, selections from which have been […]

Sally Denton

UNLV's Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

This reading feaures Sally Denton, author of nine books, including 2022โ€™s The Colony. Sally Denton is an acclaimed investigative reporter and historian. She is the author of nine books, including the true crime best-seller, The Bluegrass Conspiracy, and is co-author of the Las Vegas classic, The Money and the Power. Throughout her historical works, she […]

PhD Fellows Reading

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a reading event showcasing UNLV Creative Writing's PhD Fellows. Readers featured: Jumi Bello is a Washington DC native who is a writer of consciousness. Through formal experimental narrative structure, her fiction wanders in the realm of mental illness, race, social institutions, and memory. She published two poetry chapbooks while studying history at Grinnell […]

Edgar Gomez: High Risk Homosexual

UNLV's Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

This is a reading with Edgar Gomez, author of High Risk Homosexual: A Memoir. Edgar Gomez is a Florida-born writer with roots in Nicaragua and Puerto Rico. A graduate of University of California, Riversideโ€™s MFA program, their words have appeared in Poets & Writers, Narratively, Catapult, Lithub, The Rumpus, and elsewhere online and in print. […]

Morgan Thomas: Manywhere

UNLV's Beverly Rogers Literature and Law Building (RLL): Room 101 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

This is a reading and conversation with Morgan Thomas, Fall 2023 Shearing Fellow and author of Manywhere. Morgan Thomas is a writer from the Gulf Coast. Their debut story collection, Manywhere, was published by MCD-FSG and a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, Lambda Literaryโ€™s Transgender Fiction Prize, the LA Times Art Seidenbaum Award […]

Tyriek White: We Are a Haunting

UNLV Barrick Auditorium 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a reading with Tyriek White, author of 2023โ€™s We Are a Haunting. Tyriek White is a writer, musician, and educator from Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the media director of Lampblack Literary Foundation, which seeks to provide mutual aid and various resources to Black writers across the diaspora. He has received fellowships from […]

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Meg Bernhard: Wine (Object Lessons)

Garagiste Wine Room I Merchant 197 East California Avenue, ##140, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a reading and conversation with Meg Bernhard, author of the recent addition Wine to the Object Lessons series on the Bloomsbury imprint. This program will be introduced and moderated by Krista Diamond, and will cover Megโ€™s experience traveling around the world to learn about wine. The bar at Garagiste will be open for […]

Andrea Abi-Karam

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is reading with Andrea Abi-Karam, author of Villainy, Extra-transmission, and co-editor of We Want It All. Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). […]

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