Feb. 14, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

Brockport Writers Forum: Dave Chisholm

Dave Chisholm, a graphic novelist and jazz musician, kicks off our Spring 2024 lineup of the Brockport Writers Forum.

A jazz trumpet player and comic artist, Dave Chisholm is the author of a string of critically-acclaimed music-centric graphic novels.

His books include Enter the Blue, Chasin’ the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, and Instrumental. His latest is Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound.

Chisholm holds a doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music.

Feb. 28, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Tower Fine Arts Center, Black Box Theatre

Brockport Writers Forum: Maria Brandt

We present a staged reading of Maria Brandt’s play Something Else, directed by Danny Hoskins.

Join us in the Black Box Theatre, Tower Fine Arts Center, for a staged reading of Maria Brandt’s play Something Else, directed by Danny Hoskins, Department of Theatre & Music Studies.

Maria Brandt’s plays have been produced around the country and locally at Geva Theatre Centre, MuCCC, and the Fringe Festival.

Her novel All The Words was winner of the Grassic Short Novel Prize in 2015.

She lives in Rochester and teaches creative writing at Monroe Community College.

March 13, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

Brockport Writers Forum: John Hoppenthaler

We’re introducing John Hoppenthaler, an alum of Brockport’s creative writing program who later collaborated closely with Toni Morrison.

A Brockport alum and former personal assistant to Toni Morrison, John Hoppenthaler’s most recent collection of poems is Night Wing Over Metropolitan Area.

His work has been published widely in journals including Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Southern Review.

He teaches creative writing at East Carolina University.

April 3, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Edwards Hall, Room 106

Brockport Writers Forum: Kristen Gentry

Kristen Gentry visits SUNY Brockport to read from her acclaimed debut collection of short stories.

Kristen Gentry’s first book is Mama Said, a collection of linked short stories set in Louisville, Kentucky, against the backdrop of the opioid crisis.

Her work has appeared in journals including Crab Orchard Reviewand Jabberwock Review. Formerly the Director of Creative Writing at SUNY Geneseo, she now lives and writes in her home town of Louisville.

Co-sponsored with the Department of African and African-American Studies.

May 1, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Brockport Downtown (REOC), Multipurpose Room

Brockport Writers Forum: Eric Gansworth

Award-winning Onondaga writer, Eric Gansworth, presents the Art of Fact Reading.

Eric Gansworth is a member of Eel clan, enrolled Onondaga, born and raised at the Tuscarora Nation.

His many books include the novels Mending Skins(Pen Oakland Award) and Extra Indians(American Book Award, NAISA Book of the Year). His memoir in verse and images Apple (Skin to the Core)was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award.

We hope you can join us in person!  But if that is not possible, we invite you to view this event live via YouTube.

The Art of Fact Reading is presented with the support of the Brockport Foundation.

May 8, 2024, 7:30 p.m. | Fannie Barrier Williams Liberal Arts Building, McCue Auditorium

Brockport Writers Forum: JIGSAW Open Mic

Help celebrate the publication of JIGSAW, Brockport’s student-run literary magazine, with a low-stress open mic reading this final week of classes.

Students, staff, faculty, and friends are invited to join us for a friendly, non-competitive end-of-semester open mic reading. 

Bring a poem or a page or two of your own fiction or nonfiction to read out loud.

This event is co-sponsored by the Brockport Writers Forum and the English Club.