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  • Reading Series: Remica Bingham-Risher

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Reading: Thursday, February 12, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Remica Bingham-Risher, a native of Phoenix, Arizona, is an alumna of Old Dominion University and Bennington College. She is a Cave Canem fellow and Affrilachian Poet. Among other journals, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Writer’s […]

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  • Reading Series: drea brown

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Reading: Thursday, February 26, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building drea brown is a Hollins alumna, queer Black feminist poet-scholar whose writing has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Stand Our Ground: Poems for Marissa Alexander and Trayvon Martin, Smithsonian Magazine, Southern Indiana Review, Bellingham Review, and About Place Journal. […]

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  • MFA Thesis Readings

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Second year MFA in Creative Writing students will read from their work. Each night will consist of three or four students reading for fifteen minutes in a variety of genres. There will be a small reception following each reading on the Porches of Main. Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing

    Free
  • MFA Thesis Readings

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Second year MFA in Creative Writing students will read from their work. Each night will consist of three or four students reading for fifteen minutes in a variety of genres. There will be a small reception following each reading on the Porches of Main. Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing

    Free
  • MFA Thesis Readings

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Second year MFA in Creative Writing students will read from their work. Each night will consist of three or four students reading for fifteen minutes in a variety of genres. There will be a small reception following each reading on the Porches of Main. Sponsored by the Department of English and Creative Writing

    Free
  • 64th Annual Lex Allen Literary Festival 2026

    VAC Auditorium

    Readers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Rajia Hassib, and Nina MacLaughlin Julian Talamantez Brolaski (it / xe / them) is a poet and country singer, the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), Advice for Lovers (City Lights, 2012), and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011). Julian is a 2023 Bagley Wright lecturer, a 2021 Pew Foundation […]

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  • Reading Series: Thomas J. Anderson III

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    Reading: Thursday, April 23, 2026 • 7:30 pm • Green Drawing Room, Main Building Professor T.J. Anderson III was born in Guthrie, Oklahoma, and is a poet and musician. He is the author of several works, including t/here it is (Omnidawn Press, 2023), Devonte Travels the Sorry Route (Omnidawn Press, 2019), Cairo Workbook (Willow Books, […]

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  • Farewell Reading – The Last Tango

    Green Drawing Room, Main

    An open reading by Hollins seniors and graduating Creative Writing MFA students. One last chance to hear our favorite student writers read before they depart. Note to readers: readings should be brief (i.e., 1-2 pages of poetry or 1-2 pages of prose). Readers will sign up to read prior to the event. Sponsored by the […]