The Spring 2024 Writers Colloquium: Writing Soul Into a Broken World

Hosted by Phil Klay

Presented by the Inspired Writers Series of the Fairfield University MFA Program and College of Arts & Sciences in collaboration with the Quick Center for the Arts and the Media Institute

Saturday, February 10, 2024 • 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.

This event is free. Registration is required.

What is the role of the writer today in a world shaped by vast, impersonal forces—from climate change to modern warfare—and a culture riven by partisanship and discord where the nuances and beauties of a well-wrought line command less attention than sloganeering?

Join award-winning authors for a day of generative workshops, panels, and readings in which writers committed both to beauty and to speaking honestly in the public square discuss ways of engaging with the broader culture and preserving space for the full expression of human life. All genres and levels welcome.

Phil Klay

Author Phil Klay is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps whose short story collection, Redeployment, won the 2014 National Book Award for Fiction and the National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Prize for best debut work in any genre. His most recent novel, Missionaries, was named one of The Wall Street Journal’s 10 Best Books of 2020.