Authors and Poets Share Work in Creative Writing Virtual Reading Series 

Salisbury, MD---Salisbury University students and alumni, accomplished writers, editors and more read their works in the Creative Writing Virtual Reading Series.

The series includes distinguished students of SU’s Creative Writing Program, including an alumna who earned the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry as an undergraduate at SU. All readings are at 8 p.m. on selected Wednesdays starting September 9 and are held via Zoom.

Presenters in the series include:

• September 9 – Students read selections from their work in the 2020 edition of the Scarab, SU’s in-house literary journal. 
• September 23 – Renae Tucker is an M.F.A. candidate in creative nonfiction at Florida Atlantic University, where she teaches and works on Swamp Ape Review. Her work can be found in Permafrost Magazine, Arkana and Red Earth Review.
• October 14 – Emma DePanise’s poems are forthcoming or have appeared recently in journals such as River Styx, The Minnesota Review, The National Poetry Review, Passages North, Quarterly West and elsewhere. A 2018 graduate of SU, she is a winner of a 2019 Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Intro Journals Award and the 2018 winner of the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. She is an M.F.A. candidate in poetry and teaching assistant at Purdue University, a poetry editor for Sycamore Review and co-editor of The Shore Poetry. Event Link
• November 4 – Jordan Durham’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Cimarron Review, Quarterly West and Indiana Review, among others. She won the 2019 Construction Magazine Poetry Prize and has been a finalist for the Grist Pro-Forma Poetry Prize, the Arcadia Editors’ Poetry Prize and a National Parks Artists Fellowship. She lives in Columbia, MO, where she works at the University of Missouri and edits for Narrative Magazine. Event Link

This virtual series is free and the public is invited to attend. Visit the events page on SU’s website as the date approaches for details to register. For more information, contact the English Department at 410-543-6445.