Ukrainian-American writers' conference

[Robert DeLossa]

Convocation of Ukrainian-American Writers to Take Place at Harvard


Cambridge, October 29. The foremost emerging writers from the youngest
generation of Ukrainian-Americans will hold a first of its kind conference
at Harvard University on November 7 and 8. Sponsored by Harvard's Ukrainian
Research Institute, the meeting will provide the writers with a unique
forum to probe the current realities of merging the identity of the writer
with the complex identity of being an American of Ukrainian heritage.

The highlight of the symposium will be a public reading of new work by the
authors, with an opportunity for the audience to speak with them. This
event will take place on Sunday, November 8 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the
Forum Room of Lamont Library in the Harvard Yard. All are welcome to
attend. For inquiries, please call Mary at 617-495-4053.

During the rest of the conference the writers will grapple in closed
sessions with questions of ethnicity in America, generational change and
creativity in the Ukrainian-American community, and their ties with Ukraine
in the light of Ukraine's newly gained independence. One of the aims of the
conference is to produce an anthology of works by these emerging
Ukrainian-American writers.

The writers participating in the conference are: Olena Kalytiak Davis,
author of the poetry collection, And Her Soul of Nothing; Khristina Lew,
journalist; Kristina Lucenko, editor of The Promethean; Askold Melnyczuk,
author of the novel What is Told and editor of Agni; Dzvinia Orlowsky,
author of the poetry collection Edge of House; and Larissa Szporluk, author
of the poetry collection Dark Sky Question.

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Robert DeLossa
Director of Publications
Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University
1583 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8768; fax. 617-495-8097
reply to: rdelossa at fas.harvard.edu
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