The John Fowles Center for Creative Writing promotes and advances the discipline of creative writing in all its aspects: fiction, poetry, drama, creative non-fiction and screen/playwriting. The Center offers students and non-students alike an opportunity to gain a greater appreciation for the written word and those who write it. Each year a distinguished group of national and international writers is invited to Chapman University, making access to those writers available not only to the Chapman community, but to the Orange County and, by extension, the Southern California community as well.

Celebrating its 21st Anniversary, the John Fowles Center has hosted such international writers as: Nobel Laureates Mario Vargas Llosa and Wole Soyinka; Salman Rushdie; Maxine Hong Kingston; Edward Albee; Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Alain Robbe-Grillet; Gioconda Belli; Steve Katz; Pablo Neruda Prize winner, Raúl Zurita; Elias Khoury; II Bienal de Novela winner, Carlos Franz; Pulitzer Prize winner, John Ashbery; David Antin; Willis Barnstone, Nobel Nominees, Claudio Magris and Luisa Valenzuela; Giorgio Pressburger; Giuseppe Conte and Isabel Allende among many others.

Look for the latest edition of the Fowles Center’s literary journal, MANTISSA, which will be released in February and explore the theme of Hunger.

All readings will take place in Beckman Hall 404 at 5pm on the day of the reading.

February 5: Michal Ajvaz – The Other City; 2^nd Annual Tasos Tsirtsis Memorial Lecture

February 19: Dorota Maslowska – Snow White and Russian Red

March 12: Lucian Dan Teodorovici – Our Circus Presents

April 2: Aleksandar Hemon – A Question of Bruno

April 16: Gabor Schein – The Book of Mordechai and Lazarus

April 30: Radka Denemarková – Money From Hitler

Co-sponsored by Office of the President; Office of the Provost; Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Science; Department of English; Citrus City Grill