Young literary stars discuss channeling the past year’s grief into words

From the University at Albany news center: "In all modes, languages and epochs of literature, grief has been a frequent presence. No less so, and maybe more so, during the past year’s COVID-19 pandemic, where the world around us was dimmed by massive inconvenience, financial hardship, illness and death.

It was in this light that literary writers and scholars from UAlbany and RPI coalesced to create an event that might help students navigate these particular intense and stressful times. Writing Grief, Writing Growth: Authors Speak on Creativity During Difficult Times will bring together three of America’s finest young writers to read from their work and participate in a panel discussion this coming Wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m. in a virtual event, free through registration.

It began when alum Skye Anicca PhD ’19 reached out to Edward Schwarzschild, associate professor and director of creative writing, and others in UAlbany’s Department of English to work together on a symposium for students, with a panel of noted young writers sharing their knowledge about coping and creating in the face of grief. The three are fiction writer Amina Gautier, essayist-poet Molly McCully-Brown and poet Susan Nguyen."

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