Join the DMV Alumni group in celebrating the return of our reading series. We will gather for an afternoon of reading featuring David Haynes, Koye Oyedeji, Claire McGoff, Susan Okie and Don Colburn, followed by book signing, drinks and snacks. This event will also be a fundraiser for Friends of Writers (FOW) scholarships. Any donation is welcome.
Sunday, October 19th
3-6pm ET
Bethesda, MD
We ask that you please RSVP as we’ll need to plan for seating. We hope we’ll need many chairs! A book table will be set up for Alumni book sales.
David Haynes: The author of seven novels for adults and five books for young readers is an emeritus professor of English at Southern Methodist University, where he directed the creativewriting program for ten years. Between 1996 and 2024, he taught regularly in MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. His Seventh and most recently novel is A STAR IN THE FACE OF THE SKY. His forthcoming book is a collection, MARTHA’S DAUGHTER: A NOVELLA AND STORIES.
Dan Colburn: Don Colburn is a retired newspaper reporter and an unretired poet. During a distinguished journalism career at The Washington Post and other papers, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in feature writing. He has an MFA from the Program for Writes at Warren Wilson College. His new book, Purchase, is his sixth poetry collection; all six won or placed in national manuscript contests. He lives in Falmouth, Maine.
Clare McGoff: In 2018, Claire earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson. Claire’s poems have appeared in Image Magazine, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Beyond Words Literary magazine, and have been included in Snowdrops, a collection of winter poems by Wingless Dreamer. Claire’s debut collection, From These Outskirts, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2022. For the past three years, Claire has been serving as a co-host for Word works Cafe muse, a monthly literary program featuring poets reading their work.
Susan Okie: Susan Okie is a retired journalist and physician. She worked as a medical reporter and science editor at the Washington Post, and gradually rediscovered her love of writing poetry. She received an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson in 2014. She won the 2023 Off the Grid Poetry Prize with her first full-length manuscript, Woman at the Crossing.
Koye Oyedeji: Koye Oyedeji is a fiction writer and creative based in Washington DC. His writing has appeared in a number of publications including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Wasafiri Magazine, The Believer and elsewhere.
