New Portrait of McCullers on Exhibit in New York

The artist Bo Bartlett, who's a native of Columbus, has painted a brand new portrait of Carson. The piece is included in "Paintings of Home," a collection of Bo's recent work on exhibit right now at PPOW Gallery in New York City.

Maybe I should keep my personal opinions outta here -- but I've just gotta say that I LOVE the painting. Use the PPOW link above and see what you think.

Midtown FUN!

The Carson McCullers Center was very happy to have served as a stop on yesterday's Midtown Bike-a-Round. Here are a couple of photos, snagged from them.

Thanks for including us, Midtown. We love collaboratin' with y'all!

TWO BIG EVENTS IN NOVEMBER!

November 9, 2010 -- Dr. Jonathan Clarke Schwabe, Professor of Music Theory and Composition at the University of Northern Iowa, will give a talk about his composition, a chamber opera, based on the Carson McCullers short story "The Sojourner."  This event, co-sponsored by the McCullers Center and the Schwob School of Music, will be held in the Orchestra Room, Rm. #1716, in the Schwob School of Music at the RiverCenter for the Performing Arts.  The program will begin at 7:00. This event is free, and the public is cordially invited.

November 12, 2010 -- Soldier-poet Brian Turner will give a public reading of his work, at 7:30 in the evening, in the Studio Theatre at CSU's RiverPark Campus in downtown Columbus. This Georgia Poetry Circuit event is free, and the public is cordially invited.

Welcome, Chattahoochee Writers Conference!

I very much enjoyed hosting participants in the Chattahoochee Writers Conference on Saturday night. In fact, I enjoyed myself so much that I forgot to take photos!  Not to worry, though, because one of the participants took a photo or two and wrote about the event:
http://wynne-huddleston.blogspot.com/2010/09/2010-chattahoochee-valley-writers.html

News from McCullersland

Variety magazine announces news of McCullers biopic:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118024507.html?categoryId=2431&cs=1

Conference registration page up!

We realize that February seems like a long time away, but it'll be here before you know it. And you know you don't want to miss the Carson McCullers conference. Check it out at
http://conted.colstate.edu//CarsonMcCullersConference_.php

Welcome, Jessica Garratt!

The Carson McCullers Center extends the warmest of welcomes to Jessica Garratt, our 2010 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Writing Fellow. Having arrived yesterday, Jessica will spend the next three months in residence at the McCullers House.  Jessica's first book, Fire Pond, won the 2008 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry, selected by poet Medbh McGuckian, and was published by the University of Utah Press in April 2009. Currently Jessica is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri where she holds a creative writing fellowship. She also received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin, where she earned her MFA.