Date/Time
Date(s) - October 3, 2025
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Location
LSC 300, Lory Student Center
Categories
Literary Prizes and Residencies
A conversation with Alan Michael Parker, Chair of English at Davidson College and Ann Claycomb, Director of Faculty Recognition in the College of Liberal Arts at CSU
Alan Michael Parker, award-winning novelist, cartoonist, poet, and judge of both the 2021 National Book Award and the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award, will visit CSU on Friday, October 3, at 1 p.m. in LSC Room 300 to share what literary prize and artist residency juries are looking for in applicants.
This is a great opportunity to learn about the intersections of art, the market, and literary reputation. This talk is open to creative writers of all genres and levels—undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. Parker will be interviewed by Ann Claycomb, who will also provide information about prizes specifically for Colorado writers. Audience Q&A to follow.
Alan Michael Parker is the author four novels and nine books of poems; his latest book is a collection of flash fictions and Bingo cards, Bingo Bango Boingo, published by Dzanc Books in February of 2025. He is also editor or co-editor of five scholarly volumes, as well as a cartoonist who contributes a weekly cartoon to Identity Theory, where 181 of his cartoons have been published since 2022. His next book, Ha, Ha, Wow! A Cartooning Handbook, will be published by Duke University Press in 2027.
As a literary, film, and art critic, he has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Believer, Salon, and elsewhere; in 2021, he judged the National Book Award in fiction, and in 2024, the PEN/Faulkner Award in fiction.
Alan Michael Parker’s awards include three Pushcart Prizes, two Best American Poetry selections, the North Carolina Book Award, the Fineline Prize, the Lunate (500) prize, and the Balch Award (6 Bingo cards adjudged the best poems published in the Virginia Quarterly Review in 2021). He works at Davidson College, where he chairs the Department of English, direct the Creative Writing Program, and teaches fiction writing, film, literature, and cross-disciplinary courses in experimental forms and creativity studies, and where he holds the Douglas C. Houchens Endowed Chair.