Peter Orner

Craft Talk with Peter Orner

Award-winning fiction writer and essayist Peter Orner, whose work often celebrates the joy and necessity of reading, is the author of the new essay collection, Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin (2022), “a unique chain of essays and intimate stories that meld the lived life and the reading life.”

4:30 p.m. Tuesday, February 28
Peter Orner
Craft Talk, Multi-Purpose Room, Campus Center West
University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
Free and open to the public.

In a starred review, Publishers Weekly said, “Pushcart Prize–winning fiction writer Orner brings his lyrical, mosaic style to the story of his own life in this gorgeous and contemplative memoir.”
Orner is the 2002-2003 Rome Prize in Literature winner from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His story collection, Esther Stories, was a New York Times Notable Book, a Finalist for the Pen/Hemingway Award.

Cosponsored by the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and Young Writers Program.
Peter Orner photo credit: Christopher Ho

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Feb 28 2023
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4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

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University at Albany

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University at Albany
1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 12222
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NYS Writers Institute

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NYS Writers Institute
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https://www.nyswritersinstitute.org/
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