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Douglas Watson, Novelist and Short Story Writer, will come to MCC


On Thursday, November 13, 2014, from 7-8:15 p.m., Douglas Watson will read fiction in MCC's Flynn Campus Center Forum. A book signing will follow the reading. This event is free and open to the public.

On Friday, November 14, 2014, from 12-12:50 p.m., Watson will conduct a fiction workshop on the Brighton Campus in 8-200. The event is free and open to the MCC community.

Douglas Watson’s debut collection of stories,
The Era of Not Quite won the inaugural BOA Short Fiction Prize and is available in the BOA Bookstore. Watson's fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Fifty-two Stories, Tin House Flash Fridays, Sou’wester, The Journal, Ecotone, Salt Hill, and other publications. His story “Life on the Moon” was chosen by Dan Chaon and Wigleaf in 2012 as one of the year’s top fifty very short fictions. Watson was born in Scranton, PA, and is a graduate of Swarthmore College. He holds an MFA in creative writing from The Ohio State University and an MA in history from Brown University. He lives in New York City, where he works as a copyeditor for Time magazine. His second book, a novel called A Moody Fellow Finds Love and Then Dies, was released from Outpost19 in Fall 2014.

For further questions, contact Tony Leuzzi at aleuzzi@monroecc.edu

Tony Leuzzi
English/Philosophy and Creative Arts
11/12/2014