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Great Writers, Great Readings is presented by Hofstra University's Department of English in collaboration with the Hofstra Cultural Center.
Launched by Hofstra University in recognition of the importance of writing and literature in a liberal arts education, Great Writers, Great Readings events bring notable authors to campus to meet with creative writing students for a short workshop and question/answer session. Authors may also conduct a reading and book signing that is open to the public. Sometimes the authors use this forum as an opportunity to introduce new unpublished works.
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Fall 2024
21st Annual Great Writers, Great Readings Series
The following events take place at the Guthart Cultural Center Theater, first floor, Axinn Library, South Campus.
Free and open to the public. Call the Hofstra Cultural Center at 516-463-5669 for more information.
We are pleased to welcome the community, including family members, local schoolchildren, alumni and friends, to athletic and cultural events on campus. All events are free and open to the public. Please register in advance at events.hofstra.edu.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 6:30 P.M.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born in Nigeria in 1977. She is the author of three novels, Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), and Americanah (2013), a short story collection, The Thing around Your Neck (2009), and three books of nonfiction, We Should All Be Feminists (2014), Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017), and Notes on Grief (2021). Ms. Adichie’s work has been translated into more than 30 languages. She has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007) and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2008). She has also been named one of TIME Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2015, and in 2017, Fortune Magazine named her one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 6:30 P.M.
Celebrating Our Own
M.J. Flood
M.J. Flood is the author of Where Are You? Finding Myself in My Greatest Loss, a memoir of loss and healing. Shaped by losses throughout his life, M.J. Flood writes about the deep ache of grief as well as the sought after hope. M.J. Flood is also the writer and director of Too Much Noise — a short film in American Sign Language — which appeared in several American and International film festivals and won the Best Original Idea award at New York City’s 2018 Chain Film Festival. He is currently working on his second book and a documentary on the effects of suicide on family members. He also writes regularly for Medium.com. M.J. Flood is a husband and a father of two girls. He lives on Long Island where he has taught writing for twenty-five years at Kellenberg Memorial High School in Uniondale and at Molloy University in Rockville Centre.
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