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March 21, 2008
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Derek Nikitas Writers Forum Series - The College at Brockport Series Features Outstanding Writers
Brockport, NY – Short-story writer and novelist Derek Nikitas is the next guest of The College at Brockport, State University of New York, Writers Forum Speakers Series, Wednesday, March 26, at 8 pm, in the New York Room Cooper Hall, on The College at Brockport campus. The reading is free and open to the public.
Stories by Derek Nikitas have been published in The Ontario Review, Chelsea, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine and the recent St. Martin’s short story anthology, Killer Year: Stories to Die For. His story “Wonder” received an honorable mention from the Pushcart Prize, and in 2007 he was a Walter E. Dakin Fellow at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.
His novel Pyres, a 2008 Edgar Award nominee for “Best First Novel by an American Author,” takes place in and around Rochester.
"I've long been an admirer of Derek Nikitas's unusually engaging, subtly rendered short fiction.... Any subject Derek handles, channeled through the lens of his unique sensibility, is likely to be of unusual worth and interest," wrote famed author Joyce Carol Oates.
“Nikitas' stellar first novel (Pyres) isn't just one of the best genre debuts of the year, it's one of the best releases – period,” said author Paul Goat Allen in his Chicago Tribune review.
Raised in Manchester, NH, then Rochester, NY, Nikitas earned his undergraduate degree in English from The College at Brockport and his MFA in creative writing from UNC-Wilmington. He is currently pursuing a PhD in creative writing from Georgia State University.
Writers Forum Spring ’08 Remaining Schedule*
April 9
David Kirby
David Kirby is the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor of English at Florida State University. His latest collection, The House on Boulevard St.: New and Selected Poems, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.
April 23
The Art of Fact Award
Susan Orlean
Memorial Art Gallery Auditorium
Susan Orlean has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. Her articles have also appeared in Outside, Rolling Stone, Vogue and Esquire. She is the author of Saturday Night, which in the words of Entertainment Weekly, “calls to mind Damon Runyon, Evelyn Waugh, and screwball comedy;” and the national bestseller, The Orchid Thief.
*All readings held on the SUNY Brockport campus, in the New York Room, Cooper Hall, at 8 pm, unless otherwise noted.
Founded in 1967, the Brockport Writers Forum is recognized as one of the outstanding series of readings in this country. Its guests have included many distinguished poets, writers and critics. In addition to its program of readings, the Writers Forum sponsors residencies, workshops, symposia and festivals… all dedicated to the art of writing.
Writers Forum events are free and open to the public. For more information, call The College at Brockport Writers Forum, (585) 395-5713 or visit brockport.edu/wforum.
The College at Brockport, State University of New York
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