Georgia College & State University
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Visiting Writers Series: Karen Salyer McElmurray
Visiting Writers Series: Karen Salyer McElmurray
English, Department of Thursday September 25, 2025
Join us for a reading with Karen Salyer McElmurray, whose new book, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways: Essays (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), follows a celebrated career in memoir, fiction and essay.
She is the author of Surrendered Child, winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction, Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, Motel of the Stars and the co-edited anthology Walk Till the Dogs Get Mean. Her essays have earned the Annie Dillard Prize, the Orison Anthology Award, the New Southerner Prize and multiple Best American Essays notable listings.
James Tate Hill calls her "a rare blend of fearlessness and vulnerability."
Event details:
Monday, Oct. 6, 2025
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Peabody Auditorium, Kilpatrick Building
211 N. Wilkinson St., Milledgeville, Georgia 31061
Free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English.
Updated: 2025-09-24
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Kerry Evans
(478) 445-4018
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