Events for March 9-16, 2023

Literary happenings in the Coastal Bend

This Week

Friday, March 10, 2023

Scribbling by the Sea

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

• The Starbucks on the Island

  14002 SPID

  Corpus Christi, TX 78418

Come meet other writers, and then get down to work!
10-10:30 AM We can chat, celebrate, and commiserate.
10:30-11:30 AM Time to write! We'll focus on our works-in-progress.

For more information, contact Alyson Greene alysoncgreene@gmail.com

Later this month

Thursday, March 23, 2023

Nick Flynn Reading -FREE

11:00 AM

• Del Mar College

  Heritage Campus

  Venters Building, Room 100

  101 Baldwin Blvd, Corpus Christi, TX 78404

As a playwright, Flynn documented his years working in a homeless shelter where his father, an alcoholic, showed up as a client. His memoir about the experience, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, became a New York Times bestseller, along with the book winning the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir and becoming a finalist for France’s Prix Femina. Additionally, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City has been translated into 15 languages and was turned into a major film titled Being Flynn. The author’s other memoirs include The Ticking is the Bomb, The Reenactments and This is the Night Our House Will Catch Fire, along with his play, Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins.