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Main PagePoetry and Florida Fiction will be Topics of Writers Speaking at AASU(Savannah, GA-October 25, 2006) Armstrong Atlantic State University's (AASU) Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy will host two nationally noted writers in November as part of the 2006 Visiting Writers Series. The events are free and open to the public. Authors Peter Makuck and Susan Hubbard will speak on Wednesday, November 8, and Wednesday, November 15, respectively. Both presentations will be held at 12:10 p.m. in the Science Center, room 1402, on the AASU campus, 11935 Abercorn Street in Savannah. Makuck is the author of two collections of short stories, "Costly Habits" and "Breaking and Entering," and six books of poetry. His essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Poetry, Yale Review, Southern Review, and other journals. He has served as editor of Tar River Poetry and has taught American literature at East Carolina University since 1976. Hubbard's two collections of short fiction are "Blue Money," and "Walking on Ice." "Walking on Ice" won the Association of Writers and Writing Programs prize for short fiction in 1989. She is the co-editor of "100% Pure Florida Fiction", and a professor of English at the University of Central Florida. For more information, contact James Smith at 912.921.5633 or smithjam@mail.armstrong.edu. AASU's Union Board and the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy and the Southern Poetry Review sponsor The 2006 Visiting Writers Series. Armstrong Atlantic State University, part of the University System of Georgia, was founded in 1935. The university offers more than 75 undergraduate and graduate academic programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Education, the College of Health Professions, and the School of Computing. Armstrong Atlantic serves more than 6,700 students. While 43 percent are from the Savannah-Chatham County area, the diverse student population comes from nearly all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and more than 70 countries. |
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