Events
Reservations for individual events are available at Humanitix.com.
All events are free and open to the public.
Friday, September 20th
6:00pm Rose Dorothea Award: Reading and reception with Heidi Jon Schmidt. The Rose Dorothea Award is given annually by the Provincetown Board of Library Trustees to a person with a strong connection to the Outer Cape who has made a significant contribution through the written word.
Saturday, September 21st
9:30am Reading Local : A Reading by Regional Writers Curated by Russ Lopez, author of The Hub of the Gay Universe, and other non-fiction books, as well as numerous short stories. The following authors were selected for the reading - A. D. Metcalfe, Steven Myerson, Rani Neutill, Kai Potter, Virginia Reiser (her work will be read by her husband, Gary Urgonski, and his second wife, Carolyn Duch), and Marcene Marcoux.
11:30am Made in Provincetown: Fiction and Non-Fiction Written Right Here! Rebecca Orchant, author of Simmering: A Kitchen Memoir will talk about the differences between writing fiction and non-fiction, writing work that makes readers laugh (and cry), and other commonalities and differences. Interviewed by Christopher Castellani, author of the novel Leading Men, among others.
2:30pm History, Mystery and Magic: What Fiction Can Do Vanessa Chan, author of the historical espionage tale, The Storm We Made, Kelly Link, author of the magical realist novel, The Book of Love, and M.T. Anderson, author of Nicked, a mysterious, medieval quest novel, join forces to explore the boundaries of fiction.
4:00pm A Chorus of Voices: City Life in 21st Century Fiction Cleyvis Natera, author of Neruda on the Park and Alejandro Varela, author of The People Who Report More Stress and The Town of Babylon talk about immigration, gentrification, community and otherness in their own fiction and in 21st century city life.
6:00pm An Interview with Andre Dubus III Patrick Nolan, editor and publisher, will interview Andre Dubus III, author of the new book of essays, Ghost Dogs, the memoir Townie, as well as many other books. His novel House of Sand and Fog was a finalist for the National Book Award, a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and was made into an Academy Award-nominated film.
Sunday, September 22nd
10:00am Self and Otherness: Queer Life in Poetry and Prose Poet Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and Santiago Jose Sanchez, author of the new novel Hombrecito, compare poetry and fiction, queer life as people of color in the U.S., love, art and the whole ball of wax.
11:30am When is a Memoir Not a Memoir? Stacey D'Erasmo, wrote a series of essays about older artists called The Long Run and Mako Yoshikawa wrote a book of essays about her brilliant, difficult father called Secrets of the Sun. Both books tell the reader a lot about the authors, but they aren't exactly memoirs.
2:30pm An Interview with Vinson Cunningham As a young man, Vinson Cunningham worked on the campaign for the first Black American president. In his new novel, Great Expectations, he writes about a young man who worked on the campaign for an unnamed Black American president (known only as "the candidate"). Julia Glass, author most recently of the novel Vigil Harbor, interrogates Cunningham's approach to fiction, autofiction, and coming of age in his landmark novel. (And don't forget Dickens!)
THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT! 4:00pm Art/Work: A Conversation Between Michael Cunningham and Adam Moss: A former FAWC fellow, Michael Cunningham is beloved in Provincetown as the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and many other novels, including his most recent novel, Day. His only non-fiction book is "Land's End: A Walk in Provincetown." Adam Moss was the editor of "New York" magazine and "The New York Times Magazine." In his new non-fiction book, The Work of Art, he interviewed dozens of brilliant contemporary artists and also captured their work process in notes, sketches, and doodles, to illustrate how hard work becomes great art. THIS EVENT IS SOLD OUT!