Writer’s Week

Each year, Writers Week brings together visiting writers of local and national interest, UNCW (University of North Carolina at Wilmington) students and members of the general public with an interest in literature and writing. Activities throughout the week include workshops, panels, and readings. The keynote speaker will be: Natasha Trethewey is currently serving her second appointment as the U.S. Poet Laureate, as designated by the Library of Congress. She is the State Poet Laureate of Mississippi. Trethewey’s most recent poetry collection, Thrall, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2012. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Native Guard in 2007. Trethewey received the inaugural Cave Canem Poetry Prize for Domestic Work in 1999. She published her poetry collection, Bellocq’s Ophelia, with Graywolf in 2002. Her nonfiction book Beyond Katrina: A Meditation on the Mississippi Gulf Coastwas released in 2010. Trethewey will read from her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, in Kenan Auditorium.

For more information, check out www.uncw.edu/writers/writersweek.html