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Peace Week
Brings Award-Winning Author to Edison State
Held in conjunction with the Dayton Literary Peace Prize (DLPP), Edison
State Community College’s English Department is hosting Peace Week at
the Piqua Campus. The week will culminate with a visit from the 2016
DLPP nonfiction award-winner, Susan Southard on Thursday, November 17
in the Robinson Theater at 12 p.m.
During her visit, author Susan Southard will discuss her award-winning
novel, “Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War,” which chronicles the story
of five survivors of the bombing of Nagasaki.
A gripping novel that explores the need for peace to the fullest
extent, “Nagasaki” also garnered the 2016 Lukas Book Prize, sponsored
by the Columbia School of Journalism and Harvard University’s Nieman
Foundation for Journalism. Southard’s work has also appeared in the New
York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico, and Lapham’s Quarterly.
Southard holds an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University, Los
Angeles, and was a nonfiction fellow at the Norman Mailer Center in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. Outside of writing, Southard directs
creative writing programs, has taught nonfiction seminars, and is the
founder and artistic director of Essential Theatre based in Phoenix,
Arizona.
The event precedes the Dayton Literary Peace Prize awards ceremony,
which will be held on Sunday, November 20 at the Benjamin J. Shuster
Center in Dayton. Inspired by the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that ended
the war in Bosnia, the DLPP is the only international literary peace
prize awarded in the United States. The Prize celebrates the power of
literature to promote peace, social justice, and global understanding.
Before Southard’s visit to campus, a series of peace-focused events
will occur throughout the week in celebration of peace. A “peace walk”
will be on display near the Myers Vacarro Art Gallery and feature a
graffiti wall, selfie station, and a series of quotations about peace.
For more information, contact William Loudermilk at
wloudermilk@edisonohio.edu.
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