2024-2025
Friday, September 27
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join us for a book reading by Professor Karen Holmberg from her new young adult novel The Collagist.
Book signing to follow.
Death as Preservation in The Winter's Tale
Wednesday, November 20
4:00 p.m.
Memorial Union 208
Trans Hermeneutics and the Pardoner's Holes: Beyond Mutilation
Wednesday, February 12
4:00 p.m.
Memorial Union 208
Friday, February 28
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join the School of Writing, Literature, and Film for a reading by author Jamel Brinkley.
Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 4
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Join the School of Writing, Literature, and FIlm for a reading and book-signing with this year's Malamud Distinguished Writer-in-Residence, Elisa Gabbert.
Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.
Friday, April 25
7:30 p.m.
Corvallis Museum
411 SW 2nd St.
Book signing to follow.
All Events
The Visiting Writers Series brings nationally-known writers to campus each year and is made possible by generous support from:
The OSU Libraries & Press
The School of Writing, Literature, and Film, The College of Liberal Arts,
Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele
Grass Roots Books and Music
The Literary Northwest Series brings nationally-known writers to campus each year and is made possible by generous support from:
The OSU Libraries & Press, The School of Writing, Literature, and Film, The College of Liberal Arts, Kathy Brisker and Tim Steele, Grass Roots Books and Music
Critical Questions Lecture Series
The Critical Questions Lecture Series brings prominent scholars in literature, rhetoric, and film to OSU. In addition to delivering a public talk, the speakers meet with graduate students to discuss such topics as: the genesis of their work; the state of the field as they see it; and the cultural relevance of scholarship in the humanities.
A reading by MFA in Creative Writing students in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
The Stone Award Literary Achievement honors a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed literary work and has been—in the tradition of creative writing at OSU—a dedicated mentor to succeeding generations of young writers.