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The event is being held virtually this year

• Paul Harding (above, left) is the author of three novels, including Tinkers, the 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Fiction.
• Adam Haslett (above, right) is the author of three works of fiction, including "Imagine Me Gone," a finalist for the Pultizer Prize.

Novel writer Paul Harding and Adam Haslett are the next two authors participating in the 2022 DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts. They will read from their works and participate in a Q&A from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Thur., March 24, via Zoom during this FREE virtual event (register to attend here).

The Annual DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, now in its 19th year, is being held virtually again this year. Local, regional and national authors will read from their works during weekly, one-hour events held online via Zoom. All events are free and open to the public.

Paul Harding is the author of three novels: "Tinkers," which won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, as well as "Enon" and the forthcoming "This Other Eden" (W. W. Norton, 2023). He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and PEN America, and has taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, The Michener Center for Writers, and Harvard University. Currently, he is the Director of the MFA program in Creative Writing and Literature at Stony Brook University.

Adam Haslett is the author of three works of fiction: "Imagine Me Gone, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award; the short story collection, "You Are Not a Stranger Here," also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and the novel "Union Atlantic," winner of the Lambda Literary Award and shortlisted for the Commonwealth Prize.

His journalism on culture and politics have appeared in The Financial Times, Esquire, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Der Spiegel, The Nation and The Atlantic Monthly, among others. He has been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, and the PEN/Malamud and PEN/Winship Awards. In 2016, he received the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Yale Law School, he has been a visiting professor at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and Columbia University. He lives in New York City.

To attend the readings by Harding and Haslett, register at the following Zoom link: https://DMACC.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fECI15Z4Sp--94INqyijkQ. This Zoom event is free and open to the public. 

For more on DMACC's Celebration of Literary Arts, contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu.

Selected Writings by Paul Harding:

Interview 1, www.vulture.com/2019/01/paul-harding-on-his-decade-after-tinkers-won-the-pulitzer.html

Interview 2, https://themillions.com/2018/06/apply-aesthetic-pressure-to-the-language-an-interview-with-paul-harding.html

Selected Writings by Adam Haslett:

City Visit, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/08/city-visit/304123/

Night Walk, https://nymag.com/news/politics/politicalfictions/62261/

Original source can be found here.