Chopin Salon #44 - Guild Complex Annual Prose Awards for Short Fiction & Non Fiction Guild Complex

Wed Nov 2nd 730p - Guild Complex presents its final recognition event -- readings by finalists in Short Fiction and Short Non-fiction with each winner receiving $250 prize .   And, in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salons, the evening also includes short concert of F. Chopin by jazz pianist Marcin Januskiewicz.


Tickets $7/$5


11/2/11 - 11/2/11

730p


Wed Nov 2nd 730p - Guild Complex presents its final recognition event -- readings by finalists in Short Fiction and Short Non-fiction with each winner receiving $250 prize .   And, in keeping with the tradition of Chopin Salons, the evening also includes short concert of F. Chopin by jazz pianist Marcin Januskiewicz.

 

Tonight's judges:

 

Alex Kotlowitz (Non-Fiction) is perhaps best known for the bestselling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America.  It was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Carl Sandburg Award and a Christopher Award. The New York Public Library selected There Are No Children Here as one of the 150 most important books of the century. Kotlowitz has also contributed to The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, public radio’s This American Life, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic and The New Republic. His journalism honors include the George Foster Peabody Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the George Polk Award. He is the recipient of three honorary degrees and the John LaFarge Memorial Award for Interracial Justice given by New York’s Catholic Interracial Council. He is a writer-in-residence at Northwestern University, and a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame as the Welch Chair in American Studies.  He has also been a writer-in-residence at the University of Chicago.

Rosellen Brown (Fiction) has published ten books - novels, short stories, poetry essays - and has lived in almost as many places - New York, Boston, San Francisco, Mississippi, New Hampshire, Texas and, currently, Chicago. She is on the faculty of the MFA in Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and, after many summers leading the Spoleto Writers' Workshop in Umbria, Italy, she is now a member of the faculty of the Art Workshop International in Assisi. Other teaching positions have included: instructor in American and English literature, Tougaloo College, Mississippi, 1965-67; instructor in creative writing, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, 1976, and University of Houston, Texas, 1982-85. Since 1989 instructor in creative writing, University of Houston. Visiting professor of creative writing, Boston University, 1977-78. School of the Art Institute. Brown’s awards have included: National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, 1973, 1982; Guggenheim fellowship, 1976; Great Lake College Association best first novel award, 1976, for The Autobiography of My Mother; Janet Kafka best novel award, 1984, for Civil Wars; Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year, 1984; American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award, 1987, for literature; Ingram-Merrill grant, 1989-90.

 

 

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Tickets $7/$5

Performers
Alex Kotlowitz, Rosellen Brown

Tags: Literary, American, 2011