Award-winning novelist presents a reading at Denison

Date of Event: September 6, 2011

Posted: September 2, 2011

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Goldie Goldbloom

GRANVILLE, Ohio—Award winning novelist Goldie Goldbloom will present a reading of her work at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the board room of Denison University’s Barney-Davis Hall (200 West Loop). The reading, sponsored by the Beck Lecture Series, is free and open to the public.

Goldbloom is a Hasidic Jew and a mentor and writing teacher for queer and transgender youth. Her short fiction has appeared in Narrative Magazine, StoryQuarterly and Prairie Schooner magazine, and was anthologized in “The Kid on the Karaoke Stage” and “Windy City Queer.” Her novel, “The Paperbark Shoe,” won both the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Novel Award (2008) and the Great Lakes College Association’s New Writer’s Award (2011).
 

CALENDAR LISTING, Denison University, Granville— Author reading by Goldie Goldbloom at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 6, in the board room of Barney-Davis Hall (200 West Loop). Free and open to the public. For more information, contact Anneliese Davis at 740-587-6207 or visit www.denison.edu.

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About Denison:

Denison University, founded in 1831, is an independent, residential liberal arts institution located in Granville, Ohio. A highly selective college enrolling 2,100 full-time undergraduate students from all 50 states and dozens of foreign countries, Denison is a place where innovative faculty and motivated students collaborate in rigorous scholarship, civic engagement and the cultivation of independent thinking.

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