The Denison University Creative Writing Program will host the last of this semester's Harriet Ewens Beck Fund Visiting Writers Series speakers on Tuesday, Dec. 4. Literary editors and writers Meghan O'Rourke and Ted Genoways will give a talk at 3:30 p.m. and have a separate reading in the evening at 8 p.m., both in the Barney-Davis Hall Board Room (200 West Loop).

O'Rourke is the literary editor of Slate and a poetry editor at The Paris Review. Genoways is the editor of The Virginia Quarterly Review and is the author of Bullroarer. Both are critically acclaimed as writers: O'Rourke has been published in The New Yorker and The Kenyon Review; Genoways has won the Samuel French Morse Poetry prize, the Natalie Ornish Poetry Prize and the Nebraska Book Award.

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Calendar Listing:

CALENDAR LISTING: Denison University, Granville -- Harriet Ewens Beck Fund Visiting Writers Series, 3:30 and 8 p.m., Tuesday, Dec. 4, Barney-Davis Hall Board Room (200 West Loop). Free and open to the public. Call (740) 587-6207 to confirm information.

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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