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Free Event Saturday night: Visiting Author Speaks

Sep 21, 2012

FORT MYERS - Edison Writes and the Creative Writing Club is hosting author Michael Martone at Edison State College Saturday night. Sept. 22.  Martone, an award winning author, will give a presentation and attend a reception and book signing on Sept. 22 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Martone's most recent books are Four for a Quarter; Not Normal, Illinois: Peculiar Fiction from the Flyover; Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins, a collection of essays; and Double-wide, his collected early stories. Michael Martone, a memoir in contributor’s notes, Unconventions, Writing on Writing, and Rules of Thumb, edited with Susan Neville, were all published recently. He is also the author of The Blue Guide to Indiana, published by FC2. The University of Georgia Press published his book of essays, The Flatness and Other Landscapes, winner of the AWP Award for Nonfiction, in 2000.

His stories have won awards in the Italian Americana fiction contest, the Florida Review Short Story Contest, the Story magazine Short, Short Story Contest, the Margaret Jones Fiction Prize of Black Ice Magazine, and the first World's Best Short, Short Story Contest. His stories and essays have appeared and been cited in the Pushcart Prize, The Best American Stories and The Best American Essays anthologies.

Michael Martone is currently a Professor at the University of Alabama where he has been teaching since 1996. He has been a faculty member of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College since 1988. He has taught at Iowa State University, Harvard University, and Syracuse University.

The event will be located in J117/118 in the Rush Library at Edison State College. The event is free. For more information visit: http://floridarts.org/

Last Updated: September 21, 2012