Aug. 23, 2014
Time: 2pm to 5pm
Location: Village Writing School
Magical Realism & the Literary Fantastic
In our afternoon on Magical Realism and the Literary Fantastic, Kevin will give a lecture, lead the discussion of two short stories, and open the room to questions and free-ranging discussion. If you are interested in including elements of magical realism and literary fantastic in your writing or if you’re just a Brockmeier fan, come join us for illumination. Cost $25.
In addition to his most recent work, A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip, KEVIN BROCKMEIER is the author of the novels The Illumination, The Brief History of the Dead, and The Truth About Celia; the story collections Things That Fall from the Sky and The View from the Seventh Layer; and the children’s novels City of Names and Grooves: A Kind of Mystery.
His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He has published his stories in such venues as The New Yorker, The Georgia Review, McSweeney’s, Zoetrope, Tin House, The Oxford American, The Best American Short Stories, The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror, and New Stories from the South. He has received the Borders Original Voices Award, three O. Henry Awards (one, a first prize), the PEN USA Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an NEA Grant. In 2007, he was named one of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and he lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.