A Storied Future: Ann Beattie in conversation with emerging writers from the Virginia Quarterly Review

Friday, October 17, 2014
7:30 PM

Lutheran Church of the Reformation (across the street from the Folger Shakespeare Library)
212 East Capitol Street NE
Washington, DC 20003 (map)

Tickets will be on sale soon for $15. Click here to subscribe to the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series for a discounted rate.

Since 1925, the storied literary and cultural journal, Virginia Quarterly Review, has been publishing thought-provoking works of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and journalism. The fall 2014 issue of VQR has a theme of “Big Breaks,” and this collaborative event between PEN/Faulkner and VQR will feature a moderated conversation between Ann Beattie and four gifted writers — Tope Folarin, Onyinhe Ihezukwu, Greg Jackson, and Brendan McKennedy — at the start of their careers.

Greg Jackson grew up in Boston and coastal Maine. He has been a Fiction Fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center and a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where he won the 2012 Henfield Prize. His fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, and his first book is a story collection entitled Prodigals (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016). He has worked for the literary journal n+1 and with investigative journalist Ron Suskind on several bestselling works of political nonfiction.