Essayist and fiction writer Anne Panning will give a reading from her new memoir, Dragonfly Notes on Distance and Loss, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October, 16, in the Alumni Lounge at University of Lynchburg. Admission is free and the public is invited.
Thornton Reading
West Virginia novelist leads off Thornton Reading series
The novelist Jessie van Eerden will open the University of Lynchburg’s Fall 2018 Thornton Reading series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, September 27, in Schewel Hall’s Sydnor Performance Hall. The reading […]
Carrie Brown and Molly McCully Brown present Thornton reading
At 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 14, novelist Carrie Brown and her daughter, the poet Molly McCully Brown, will team up for a Thornton reading in Schewel Hall’s Sydnor Performance […]
Thornton Reading: Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney, award-winning poet, author, and co-founder of The Affrilachian Poets, will give a Thornton reading, followed by a book signing, at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, February 22, in Hall Campus Center’s Memorial Ballroom.
Acclaimed authors lined up for 2017-2018 Thornton Readings
A Latino International Book Award winner and the poet laureate of Virginia will come to University of Lynchburg this year for the Thornton Reading Series. Chantel Acevedo, a professor in […]
Rajia Hassib to give Thornton Reading
The spring 2017 Thornton Reading will reveal what life is like as a Muslim-American. Author Rajia Hassib will present a reading from her novel In the Language of Miracles, which was […]
Brophy, Miles to do Thornton reading
English professors Jessica Brophy and Wendy Miles will read from their work Oct. 15 at 8 p.m. in Sydnor Performance Hall. A reception and book signing will follow. The reading is sponsored by the Richard H.
Novelist Maud Casey to read from work
Maud Casey, spring Thornton Reader and author of the novels The Shape of Things to Come, a “New York Times Notable Book”; Genealogy; The Man Who Walked Away; and a collection of stories, Drastic, will give a reading Thursday, April 3 at 6 p.m.
“How the Losers Love What’s Lost”
Patrick Ryan Frank, Spring 2014 Thornton Writer-in-Residence, will read from his work on March 19 at 8 p.m. in Sydnor Performance Hall. A reception and book signing will follow.
Poet Olga Broumas to read Thursday
Poet Olga Broumas will give a Thornton Reading at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Sydnor Performance Hall.
Broumas has published seven collections of poetry, the first Restlessness in Greece, then a chapbook Caritas, next Beginning with O, with Yale University Press, followed by four other collections with Copper Canyon Press: (Soi Sauvage, Pastoral Jazz, Perpetua, Rave).
