Tonight, the Wilkes University English Department will open the annual Allan Hamilton Dickson Spring Writers Series with guest artist Idra Novey at 7:30 p.m. in the Kirby Hall Salon.
Novey is a novelist, poet and translator. Her most recent novel, Take What You Need, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Yiyun Li’s Author Pick at The Guardian and a Barnes & Noble Fiction Pick. It was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award, chosen as a Barnes & Noble Fiction Pick and named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, L.A. Times, Boston Globe, NPR and Today.
Her first novel, Ways to Disappear, was a winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Public Library Prize and the Sami Rohr Prize. In 2022, she received a Pushcart Prize for her story “The Glacier,” published in The Yale Review. Her new book of poems, Soon and Wholly, was selected as a 2024 Poetry Foundation Staff Pick and named one of Electric Literature’s Best Poetry Books of 2024. She teaches in Princeton University’s Creative Writing Program.
The evening with Novey will include a reading and Q&A with the audience. The event is free and open to the public.
Upcoming guest speakers in the series include Helena D. Lewis on March 18 and George Saunders on April 15.
For more information and registration details, visit wilkes.edu/dickson.