Juniper Summer Writing Institute 2023 Reading Series Slated for June 12-15

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"With a stellar faculty lineup, and over 90 dedicated workshop participants who are ready to take their work to the next level, we are looking at an electric week full of creative possibilities," the director of the Juniper Summer Writing Institute at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst says in a press release.

The institute, which is affiliated with the university's MFA for Poets and Writers, runs from June 12-15 and features guest writers from around the country, as well as workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, the release notes.

"Our acclaimed guest writers will not only share their work, but also give us a behind-the-scenes view into how they create the arresting work that they do," the director says.

The featured guest writers this year are Diana Khoi Nguyen, author of Ghost Of (Omnidawn) and a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship recipient; Leni Zumas, whose novel RED CLOCKS was named a Best Book of 2018 by the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Huffington Post, Entropy, and the New York Public Library; and Mahogany L.

Browne, whose fiction and nonfiction have appeared in the New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement, Granta, Guernica, The Cut, Tin House, and elsewhere

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