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The Secret Lives of Church Ladies: A Lunchtime MAP Day Reading and Conversation with Deesha Philyaw

Cole Memorial Chapel Norton, MA, United States

African American author, columnist, and public speaker Deesha Philyaw will read from her debut short story collection, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, which won the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the 2020/2021 Story Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award in fiction. This event will also be available virtually via […]

Free

Puerto Rican Poetic Resistance(s) to Continued Colonialism: Interactive workshop with Dr. Melinda González

Watson Fine Arts - Ellison Lecture Hall Norton, MA

Poetry-based art movements have functioned as an important locus of community organizing and political discourse across both Puerto Rico and the U.S. since at least the 1930s. In this interactive workshop, scholar-activist-poet Dr. Melinda González will perform poems, facilitate a poetry writing workshop, and discuss the role of poetry spaces in disaster recovery in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria […]

Free

Creative Writing Senior Reading

Mary Lyon Hall - Woolley Room Norton, MA, United States

Graduating seniors from the Creative Writing program read from their original work. The program features all genres. Join us in congratulating these students on their outstanding writing.     Please note: Wheaton College requires masking for at all events, regardless of vaccination status. Seating is limited.

Free

Readings by the Writer—Phuc Tran

Mary Lyon Hall - Woolley Room Norton, MA, United States

Writer, teacher, and tattoo artist, Phuc Tran, reads from his humorous and introspective memoir, "Sigh, Gone. A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In", about his family's escape from Vietnam, displacement in America, and his struggle to fit in during high school.  A brief Q&A will follow this lunchtime event.

Free

Readings by the Writer—Kim Adrian

Mary Lyon Hall - Woolley Room Norton, MA, United States

Author Kim Adrian reads from her memoir, The Twenty-Seventh Letter of the Alphabet, and discusses growing up with the confusion and chaos of mental illness and generational trauma.  A brief Q&A will follow this lunchtime event.

Free

Five-Minute Play Festival

Watson Fine Arts - Experimental Theatre Norton, United States

Original plays—written, directed and performed by Wheaton students—will be showcased in our biannual festival.

Free

Readings by the Writer—Arda Collins

Mary Lyon Hall - May Room Norton, MA

Arda Collins poetry features a quiet assertive voice that builds or collects or accumulates a domestic space. 

Free