Please come hear award-winning novelist Carter Sickels read from his work on Monday, March 25, at 1 p.m., the first event in the spring 2024 Cardin Reading Series!
The reading will be held in Mali 2/Dana 202. The event is free and open to the public. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, and books will be available for purchase.
Mr. Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, published by Hub City Press, winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and the Weatherford Award. The Prettiest Star was also selected as a Kirkus Best Book of 2020 and a Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine. Mr. Sickels' debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012), an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His essays and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Atlantic, Oxford American, Poets & Writers, and BuzzFeed. He is an assistant professor of English & creative writing in the MFA program at North Carolina State University.
For further information, see his website.
Attached you will find a sample of Mr. Sickels' work, a short essay about a moment early in his transitioning.
Questions? Contact professor Ben Grossberg at grossberg@hartford.edu.