THE EDDICE B. BARBER VISITING WRITER PROGRAM

Fiction writer

Tom Franklin

Tuesday-Friday, March 25-28, 2008

Writing workshop
Tuesday-Friday, 9:00 A.M.—CSU Room 202
Talk on craft
Tuesday, 3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
Thursday, 7:30 P.M.—CSU Room 253

Tom Franklin, from Dickinson, Alabama, was raised in rural southwest Alabama, a dozen miles from the setting of his novel Hell at the Breech. Along with that work, he has published the highly regarded story collection Poachers, and the more recent novel Smonk, all from William Morrow. Individual stories have been published in The Black Warrior Review, The Southern Review, and The Oxford American, among others. His pieces have also been included in Best American Mystery Stories of the Century, New Stories from The South, 1999 and Stories from the Blue Moon Café. Winner of a 2001 Guggenheim Fellowship, Franklin teaches in the MFA program at Ole Miss and lives in Oxford, Mississippi, with his wife, poet Beth Ann Fennelly, and their children.

See a writing sample by Franklin.

Listen to the interview, craft talk, or reading with Franklin.

To learn more about Franklin, see this website.

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This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. MSU Library Services and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State offer additional support.