Hearing Voices with Elizabeth Hatmaker and J. Bowers

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, for readings of poetry by Elizabeth Hatmaker and fiction by J. Bowers.

ELIZABETH HATMAKER

Elizabeth Hatmaker is the author of Girl in Two Pieces (BlazeVOX 2010), which was nominated for a Los Angeles Times book award. Her poetry is featured in Life As We Show It: Writing on Film (City Lights 2009), ACM, Bird Dog, Epoch, MiPOesias, Mandorla, Mississippi Review, Mirage/Periodical and Projector Magazine. She teaches writing, cultural studies, film and urban education at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois. She is currently at work on her second collection of poetry The Electric Nostalgia Coffin. 

J. BOWERS

J. Bowers’s short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Portland Review, cream city review, Redivider, The Indiana Review and other nationally circulated journals. She holds a B.A. in English and creative writing from Goucher College and an M.A. in the same from Hollins University. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the University of Missouri, working on a collection of short historical fiction about horses, film, photography, death and obsolescence. In her free time, she likes to think about the hungry ghosts of silent Hollywood while she rides her little yellow pony through the totemic Missouri wilderness.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Winter Break

Thanks, everyone, for a wonderful season of Hearing Voices/Seeing Visions at Orr Street Studios!

We're taking a break for the holidays, but we'll be back in late January. Check here for next semester's schedule.

If you are interested in sharing your writing or visual art with the community, please contact us at orr.series@gmail.com, or send us a message on Facebook.

Happy winter!

Seeing Visions at Grindstone Studios

Join us at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 27, for a very special evening at Grindstone Studios, Columbia's new art print studio.

Grindstone is a joint venture project run by Jeffrey Moore, Robert Friedman, Frank Stack and Byron Smith. Grindstone specializes in lithographic printing and has a library of prints from regional, national and international artists. Jeffrey Moore will talk about the lithographs while demonstrating the various stages in this painstaking process first invented in 1796.

The entire Seeing Visions evening will be at Grindstone Studios, which is next door to (north of) Orr Street Studios, in the same building as Missouri Contemporary Ballet, Dande Cafe and the Beach salon. 

See you there!

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Speer Morgan and Kris Somerville

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6, as Speer Morgan and Kris Somerville discuss the Missouri Review's "Found Text" series featuring previously unpublished work by literary giants of the past, including Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams, Marianne Moore, Charlotte Bronte, Jack Kerouac and William Faulkner.
 

SPEER MORGAN

Speer Morgan is a novelist, a University of Missouri professor of English and the editor of The Missouri Review. Morgan has won several awards, including the Best Story of the Year award from Prairie Schooner in 1978, for “Internal Combustion.” He was a fiction fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts in 1994. He won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1999 for The Freshour Cylinders and a Lawrence Foundation Prize in 2000 for “The Girl.” His story “The Big Bang" received the Goodheart Prize for Shenandoah’s best story of 2008. Morgan has contributed short stories to several other magazines and journals, including Harper’s, the Atlantic Monthly, Northwest Review, New Letters, River Styx, and Iowa Review.

 

KRIS SOMERVILLE

Kris Somerville teaches literature, publishing and creative writing at Stephens College.  Her short stories, essays and prose poems have been published in various magazine, including North American Review, Passages North, Ecotone, River City, Zone 3 and Quarterly West.  Her visual and "Found Text" features and omnibus reviews appear regularly in The Missouri Review.







 
Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Claire McQuerry and Susan Koenig

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 23, for readings of prose by Susan Koenig and poetry by Claire McQuerry.

CLAIRE MCQUERRY

Claire McQuerry is a Ph.D. candidate in poetry at the University of Missouri and an editor for The Missouri Review. Her poetry collection, Lacemakers, won the Crab Orchard First Book Prize, and her poems and essays have appeared in Western Humanities Review, Mid-American Review, Creation Nonfiction, American Literary Review and other journals.

SUSAN KOENIG

Susan Koenig has written three novels and is working on her fourth. She is a member of a local writing group where she hones her craft in hopes of publication. Her first novel is set in the 1960s and describes the transition of four high school graduates who come of age during the Vietnam conflict, told from the point of view of a young woman making the journey from belief that the war is justified to conviction that it must end. Susan lives in Columbia with her husband.


Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.

Hearing Voices with Michael Nye and Peter Gardner

Join us at Orr Street Studios at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, for readings of prose by Michael Nye and poetry by Peter Gardner.

MICHAEL NYE

Michael Nye’s debut short story collection is Strategies Against Extinction. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Boulevard, Cincinnati Review, Crab Orchard Review and New South, among many other publications. He is a Columbia resident and works as the managing editor of TheMissouri Review.

PETER GARDNER

After spending his early years in England, Canada, and a Maori community in New Zealand,  Peter became an anthropologist with a focus on hunter-gatherers in India and Canada’s Subarctic.  He has also studied Hindu civilization and spent time in Japan.  Peter has been writing poems since 1966 and personal essays since 2009. His 2006 memoir, Journeys to the Edge, was runner-up for a national award. Orr Street Studios attract him, for he painted in oils as a youth, studied calligraphy in Japan, and entered photography shows in the 1980s and ‘90s.

Orr Street Studios is located at 106 Orr St. in downtown Columbia, Mo. Join us every Tuesday evening during the academic year for literary readings and visual-arts presentations.