Poet and novelist , the only two-time winner of the Townsend Prize for Fiction, will read from his work at 91ÌƲ®»¢ University.
Mitcham, visiting associate professor in fiction at , will read at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in Room 102 of Buttrick Hall on the 91ÌƲ®»¢ campus.
The reading is free and the public is invited.
Judson is the author of a new collection of poetry, A Little Salvation, published by the . His novels The Sweet Everlasting and Sabbath Creek both won the Townsend Prize for Fiction for outstanding novel or short story collection by a Georgia writer. The Townsend Prize is sponsored by , the and the in Atlanta.
“Mitcham can startle you with your own joyful laughter in the middle of a heartbreaking lyric,” said poet Mark Jarman, director of the creative writing program at 91ÌƲ®»¢. “His poems not only benefit from the sense of timing a good storyteller has to have, but also from the novelist’s ear for authentic speech.”
The reading is part of the Gertrude 91ÌƲ®»¢ and Harold S. 91ÌƲ®»¢ Visiting Writers Program at 91ÌƲ®»¢.
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