CHESTER —.Four award-winning writers make a stop in town for Chester College of New England's fall Visiting Writers Series.
The nationally known writers come to the campus as part of the lecture symposium. All readings take place at 6 p.m. in the Powers building, Room 29.
The four artists on the fall schedule include Kevin Keck, David Crouse, Eric Pinder and Michelle Tea.
A nonfiction writer, Keck will be at the college on Sept. 9 for a 2:30 p.m. lecture and the regular 6 p.m. event. He is a recent contributor to Nerve.com and is the author of "Oedipus Wrecked," a collection of autobiographical stories. Keck's writings have appeared in numerous literary journals.
An award-winning fiction writer, Crouse comes to Chester for a reading on Oct. 9. Crouse served as chairman of the college's department of writing and literature before becoming a faculty member in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks in 2007. His short story collection "Copy Cats" was awarded the Flannery O' Connor Award for Short Fiction in 2005. His second collection, "The Man Back There," earned the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction in 2007.
On Monday, Oct. 27, Pinder is featured. His articles and stories on nature and the outdoors have appeared in publications all over the country. He has taught nature writing at Chester College and his latest books deal with the mountains, the wilderness, and other outdoors subjects.
Tea rounds out the quartet of writers scheduled to appear this fall in Chester. She comes to town on Nov. 13 and is the founder of the original Sister Spit experience, beginning as an all-female open mike event in the 1990s and now has morphed into a national tour. She is the author of four memoirs and numerous fiction works.
For information about Chester College's writers series this fall, contact the college at 887-7432, or visit the campus online at www.chestercollege.edu.
