Author B.J. Hollars to give reading
November 10, 2015
Author B.J. Hollars will read from his work at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, as part of
the annual Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series sponsored by the Department of English
at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Hollars will read in the Schaible Auditorium on the Fairbanks campus. The reading
is free and open to the public.
Hollars also will deliver a craft talk at 3 p.m. Friday in Gruening 408. The public
talk is geared toward writers.
Hollars is a professor of English and creative writing at the University of Wisconsin-Eau
Claire and is the winner of the Blei/Derleth Nonfiction Award (2014) and the Society
of Midland Authors Adult Nonfiction Award (2012). He has written several books, including
"Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence and the Last Lynching in America" (2011) and "Opening
the Doors: The Desegregation of the University of Alabama and the Fight for Civil
Rights in Tuscaloosa" (2013).
The College of Liberal Arts, the largest of UAF’s academic units, comprises arts,
humanities, social sciences and language disciplines across 20 departments.
CONTACT: Naomi Horne, nehorne@alaska.edu, 907-474-6464
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