Charleston Southern University hosts an annual Visiting Writers Series. For 2024-2025, they plan to host fiction writer Meagan Lucas in November and emerging poets Grace Claire Przywara and Phil Canipe in April. The free series is open to students and the community. SC Humanities supported this program with a Fast Track Literary Grant.
The November program will take place on Friday, November 8, 2024 at 6:00 p.m. in Ashby Hall at Charleston Southern University (9200 University Blvd., North Charleston, SC 29486). The program will feature Meagan Lucas.
Meagan Lucas is the author of the Anthony nominated collection Here in the Dark (Shotgun Honey, 2023) and the award-winning novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs (Main Street Rag Press, 2019). Meagan has published over 40 short stories and essays. She has been nominated for the Pushcart, Best of the Net, Derringer, and Canadian Crime Writer’s Award of Excellence multiple times, and won the 2017 Scythe Prize for Fiction. Her short stories “The Monster Beneath” and “You Know What They Say About Karma” were listed as Distinguished in the 2023 and 2024 Best American Mystery and Suspense. Her novel Songbirds and Stray Dogs was chosen to represent North Carolina in the Library of Congress 2022 Route 1 Reads program, and won Best Debut at the 2020 Indie Book Awards. Meagan teaches Creative Writing at Robert Morris University and in the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville. She is the Editor in Chief of Reckon Review. Born and raised on a small island in Northern Ontario, she now lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina.
The April program will take place on Friday, April 11, 2025 at 5:00 p.m. in Ashby Hall at Charleston Southern University (9200 University Blvd., North Charleston, SC 29486). The program will feature poets Grace Claire Przywara and Phil Canipe.
Grace Claire Przywara is a mother and poet from South Carolina. Her poetry has appeared in Ekstasis Magazine, Amethyst Review, Solum Press, Heart of Flesh Literary Journal, and Canada’s The Christian Courier, among others, and has been featured by human rights organizations Rehumanize International and Catholic Mobilizing Network. Her work can be followed at graceclairepoetry.substack.com.
Phil Canipe is a poet and essayist living somewhere on the East Coast where he runs a small family business. His work has appeared in various independent journals such as Ekstasis Magazine, The Downtime Review, Little Old Lady Comedy, and A Thin Slice of Anxiety. A once Forty Under 40 winner, Phil enjoys writing about faith, food, family, and the seemingly endless strand of satire that connects us all. Follow Phil @WatchPhilPost.
For more information about the Charleston Southern University Visiting Writers Series, contact Dr. Dan Leach at dleach@csuniv.edu.
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