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Meet Author Rion Amilcar Scott: A reading and conversation

January 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Meet Author Rion Amilcar Scott: A reading and conversation

Join the Florida Atlantic University Department of English as they welcome writer Rion Amilcar Scott for a reading from his latest book, The World Doesn’t Require You, and an engaging conversation about his writing process and his life as a writer. Scott is an award-winning writer whose work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The Rumpus, among others. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Kimbilio and the Colgate Writing Conference as well as a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. Presently he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.

This event is funded in part through a Florida Humanities Greater Good: Humanities in Academia Grant in partnership with Florida Atlantic University.

Event Details

Event Date/time:

January 29, 2022 @ 12:00 pm -
January 29, 2022 @ 1:00 pm

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Presenter Information:
Rion Amilcar Scott, Author and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Maryland
Event Fee:
Free
Event Type:
In-person
Event Registration Link:
Click here to register

Event Contact:

Becka McKay
Phone:
(561) 297-2974
Email:
mfa@fau.edu

Event Venue:

North Regional Broward County Library
1100 Coconut Creek Boulevard
Coconut Creek, FL 33066 United States
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