Alumni Author Interview, Reading, and Q&A
Join us as alumnus and author Wes Jamison (‘10) reads from their latest book, My Corpse Inside
AWP26: UGA Press Crux Reading
Join us for a reading with authors from UGA Press’ Crux Nonfiction Series: Ashley Anderson, Wes Jamison, Alison Kinney, & Yelizaveta Renfro.
Named for intersections, and for the heart of the matter, the Crux series publishes literary nonfiction by diverse writers working in a variety of modes, including personal and lyric essays, literary journalism, cultural meditation, and memoir.
The 4 books featured present an exciting array of perspectives, and you can read more about each of them below:
Sifting the Feminine: Essays on a Woman’s Body by Ashley Anderson
My Corpse Inside by Wes Jamison
United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope by Alison Kinney
The Season of Birds and Stones: Essays by Yelizaveta “Lisa” P. Renfro
AWP26: On the Ethics of Writing Violence: A Roundtable Discussion
Four writers of nonfiction speak from experience to reflect on: how to write ethically about abjection, humiliation, self-harm, and suicide; accepting the risks of exposure to disturbing images and documents; ways of contending with the difficulties and ethics of writing about violence against children; weathering familial and community fallout from truth-telling, such as disclosing domestic violence; and remaining vigilant regarding the dangers of appropriating or exploiting tragedy and the dead.
AWP26: Book Signing
Find me at the University of Georgia Press booth for a book signing.
The Art of Traumedy
Four writers marry tragedy with comedy to conceive the love-hate child named “Traumedy.”
With Brooke Champagne, Annell López, and Mary Miller
Knock, Knock! Revisiting Past, Published, Regretted Work
How can we think about revisiting older work that we may have changed our minds about, or grown out of, or for personal or intellectual or ethical reasons regret? How can we address this work thoughtfully and creatively – beyond writing a straightforward rebuttal?
This panel will discuss different approaches to not (just) revising but reconsidering past work. Panelists will share brief stories from their own experience – how age and maturity have changed their beliefs, how writing in different genres and forms can influence not just the approach to but the meaning of a work, how technology may or may not aid memory, and how our feelings can hinder or spur this kind of rethinking. We’ll then offer a series of questions, challenges, and strategies (in the Brian Eno sense) for participants to engage with. Our session will end with time for further questions and conversation.
Crux Reading
A reading from University of Georgia’s Crux Series in Literary Nonfiction, featuring Brooke Champagne, CMarie Fuhrman, Wes Jamison, Lawrence Lenhart, Cris Mazza, and Yelizaveta Renfro.
Mass Essaying
This will be a NonfictioNOW event like no other. An event of live nonfiction writing and reading/presentation leading to a high-quality anthology publication (publisher TBA).
Prepare nothing in advance. Bring curiosity, an open mind and something to write with.
Be prepared for an experiment. A celebration of the relational, the joyful, the defiant.
Facilitated by David Carlin, Nicole Walker and Jessica Wilkinson
Queer Troublemaking
Troublemaking is joy, is liberating, celebratory for many queer folks. Troublemaking is about joy and survival and recovery and genre and publishing and gender and academia and the body and and and.
Pride Poetry Night
Featured reader, alongside Alé Cota, at Pride Corpus Christi’s Poetry Night!
Active Bitch Face Productions Present: A Variety Hour
We’re celebrating Pride and the return of Chicago educated Wes Jamison and their new collection Carrion (Red Hen Press). Acts include: cowboy country crooning music by Andrew Sa & Friends, drag transcendence by Lucky Stiff, gutbuster standup by Sonal Aggarwal, original cello composition by Ari Hunter Scott, mixed media story telling by Mel Leverich, laugh so hard you puke standup-poetry performance by Khaya Osborne, pearl clutching cowboy fuck poems by C. Russell Price, and the belle of the ball Wes Jamison reading their critically acclaimed hybrid work.
Second Person: You and Your Reader
2024 People's Literary Festival
We can't expect a captive audience: our readers may want more than lists of actions and adjectives, descriptions of what we see, think, and imagine. Readers may wish to have a role, to be more involved. In this generative workshop, we will experiment with the word "you," with person, voice, and reference to see what new possibilities appear for reader engagement. All levels and abilities welcome.
Exploring Mythologies and Literary Villains
2024 People’s Literary Festival
A multi-genre reading with Paul McCann and Annie Huckabee, moderated by Kent Lenz.
Galley Signing
I’ll be signing galleys with the wonderful Jennifer Brice at the 2024 AWP Bookfair! Booths 619/621/623
Celebrating 30 Years: An Omnibus Reading
Featuring readings by Red Hen’s Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 authors and contributors to The Good Life Review.
Writing the Body is Writing Everything
I will have a literary discussion with Leone Beasely, emma x lirette, and AJ Dolman, moderated by Doc McLemore
Writers Read
Wes will be part of Writers Read at Saints & Sinners Literary Festival 2023 alongside Henry Alley, St Sukie de la Croix, Sheri Reynolds, Miah Jeffra, Jessica Jopp, and Doc McLemore.