{"id":21965,"date":"2025-02-25T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/?p=21965"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T14:00:58","slug":"tonight-idra-novey-opens-the-allan-hamilton-dickson-writers-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/tonight-idra-novey-opens-the-allan-hamilton-dickson-writers-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Tonight: Idra Novey Opens the Allan Hamilton Dickson Writers Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Novey is a novelist, poet and translator. Her\u00a0most recent novel,\u00a0Take What You Need,<\/em>\u00a0was a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize, Yiyun Li\u2019s Author Pick at\u00a0The Guardian<\/em>\u00a0and 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\u00a0The New Yorker<\/em>,\u00a0L.A. Times<\/em>,\u00a0Boston Globe<\/em>,\u00a0NPR<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Today<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Her first novel,\u00a0Ways to Disappear,<\/em>\u00a0was a winner of the 2016 Brooklyn Public Library Prize and the Sami Rohr Prize. In 2022, she received a Pushcart Prize for her story \u201cThe Glacier,\u201d published in\u00a0The Yale Review<\/em>. Her new book of poems,\u00a0Soon and Wholly,<\/em>\u00a0was selected as a 2024 Poetry Foundation Staff Pick and named one of Electric Literature\u2019s Best Poetry Books of 2024. She teaches in Princeton University\u2019s Creative Writing Program.<\/p>\n

The evening with Novey will include a reading and Q&A with the audience. The event is free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Upcoming guest speakers in the series include Helena D. Lewis on March 18 and George Saunders on April 15.<\/p>\n

For more information and registration details, visit wilkes.edu\/dickson<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<\/object>
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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.\u00a0 Novey is a novelist, poet and translator. Her\u00a0most recent novel,\u00a0Take What You Need,\u00a0was a\u00a0New York Times\u00a0Notable Book of 2023, a finalist for the Joyce Carol Oates… Read More »Tonight: Idra Novey Opens the Allan Hamilton Dickson Writers Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21987,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21965\/revisions\/21987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.wilkes.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}