Don’t miss UP’s Fall 2005 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Lecture with Pulitzer-winning journalist Eli Saslow. Saslow will discuss his reporting and his 2018 book “Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist.”
Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series
ReadUP 2025-26: Order Your Copy of “Braiding Sweetgrass”
Reserve your free copy of this year’s ReadUP selection, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants,” by botanist, professor, and author Robin Wall Kimmerer. Reserve your copy by November 7: https://forms.office.com/r/yh3pdiUxzx
ReadUP Event: Cheryl Strayed Lecture and Book Signing (Mar. 13)
As part of UP’s Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series, Portland-based author Cheryl Strayed will visit campus on March 13 to discuss her book “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail,” which is this year’s ReadUP book selection. (Read More)
The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series Welcomes Viet Thanh Nguyen (Oct. 23)
The Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers series is delighted to welcome novelist and memoirist Viet Thanh Nguyen to our campus for a talk on Wednesday October 23. Nguyen is the author of the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” and works as a professor at the University of Southern California. (Read More).
Did You Miss Ross Gay’s Public Reading? (Apr. 5)
If you missed Ross Gay’s exuberant reading of his poems and essays at the March Schoenfeldt Lecture, or would like to re-savor that gripping evening, this video link of the event is available to the UP community until April 5. You will need your UP username and password to gain access, but holy moly will it be worth it! (Read More).
Ross Gay, 2024 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer On Campus (Mar. 18)
Capping off this year’s ReadUP experience of his Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, author Ross Gay will give the Spring 2024 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series lecture on Monday, March 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Buckley Center Auditorium. All members of the UP community and everyone in their orbits who could use a booster shot of joy are invited to this free talk, which will be followed by a book signing. (Read More).
Resources from the 2023 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Lecture
For UP community members who missed Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer Jess Walter’s Nov. 1 lecture, a recording of the hour-long talk will be available Nov. 6 through Nov. 15 on the Schoenfeldt Writers Series website. (Read More)
UP’s Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series Fall Lecture—Jess Walter (Nov. 1)
UP’s Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writers Series is delighted to announce Spokane fiction writer Jess Walter will join us as our campus’s Fall guest. The lecture/reading is free and open to the public and will take place Wednesday, November 1, at 7:30 p.m. in BC Auditorium. (Read More)
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye Workshop Poetry and Vitality (Sept. 12)
As part of her visit to the University as the Fall 2022 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer, poet Naomi Shihab Nye will be conducting a workshop for faculty and staff on Monday, September 12, at 6 p.m. entitled Poetry and Vitality. In this 90-minute workshop, Naomi Shihab Nye will provide participants a first-hand experience of how the reading and writing of poetry can […]
Poet Naomi Shihab Nye at UP (Sept. 13)
Palestinian-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye isUP’s fall 2022 Schoenfeldt Distinguished Writer. On Tuesday, September 13, Nye will be available for an informal Q&A hour (4 p.m.–5 p.m. in Franz 214) where students, staff, and faculty can engage her in questions about poetry and the writing life. Then at 7 p.m. she’ll give a poetry reading in Buckley Center […]