The event is being held virtually this year
- Jess Walter (above,, left) is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers “Beautiful Ruins” and “The Financial Lives of the Poets.”
- Kevin Wilson (above, right) is the author of two collections and three novels, including “The Family Fang,” “Perfect Little World” and “Nothing to See Here,” a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection.
The Annual DMACC Celebration of Literary Arts, now in its 19th year, will be held virtually again this year. Local, regional and national authors will read from their works during weekly, one-hour events held online via Zoom. All events are free and open to the public.
Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers “Beautiful Ruins” and “The Financial Lives of the Poets,” the National Book Award finalist, “The Zero,” and “Citizen Vince,” the winner of the Edgar Award for best novel.
His short fiction has appeared in Harper's, McSweeney's and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading.
He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.
Kevin Wilson is the author of two collections, “Tunneling to the Center of the Earth” (Ecco/Harper Perennial, 2009), which received an Alex Award from the American Library Association and the Shirley Jackson Award, and “Baby You’re Gonna Be Mine” (Ecco, 2018), and three novels, “The Family Fang” (Ecco, 2011), “Perfect Little World” (Ecco, 2017) and “Nothing to See Here” (Ecco, 2019), a New York Times bestseller and a Read with Jenna book club selection.
His fiction has appeared in Ploughshares, Southern Review, One Story, A Public Space, and elsewhere, and has appeared in Best American Short Stories 2020 and 2021, as well as The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo and the KHN Center for the Arts.
Wilson lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with his wife, the poet Leigh Anne Couch, and his sons, Griff and Patch, where he is an Associate Professor in the English Department at Sewanee: The University of the South.
To attend the readings by Walter and Wilson, go to the following Zoom ink: https://DMACC.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_e8JCeHmiQmK0lfVIWOmxYw.
The zoom meeting is free and open to the public. For more on DMACC's Celebration of Literary Arts, contact Ankeny Campus Professor and Celebration of Literary Arts Coordinator Marc Dickinson at (515) 964-6221 or madickinson@dmacc.edu.
Selected Writings by Jess Walter:
Selected Writings by Kevin Wilson:
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