Off the Page: Rion Amilcar Scott Readings 1/27 and 1/29

Florida Atlantic University’s Off the Page: Events for Readers and Writers, with support from Florida Humanities, are pleased to offer two opportunities to hear award-winning fiction writer Rion Amilcar Scott read from his latest book, The World Doesn’t Require You.

At 7 pm on Thursday, January 27th, he’ll read in the Majestic Palm Room at Florida Atlantic University’s Student Union building. At noon on Saturday, January 29th, he’ll read in Room 154 at North Regional/Broward College Library.

Both events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact mfa@fau.edu. Sponsored in part by the Board of County Commissioners, the Tourist Development Council, and the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County.

From Rion Amilcar Scott's bio:

Rion Amilcar Scott is the author of the story collection, The World Doesn’t Require You (Norton/Liveright, August 2019), a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and winner of the 2020 Towson Prize for Literature. His debut story collection, Insurrections (University Press of Kentucky, 2016), was awarded the 2017 PEN/Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and the 2017 Hillsdale Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. His work has been published in places such as The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Crab Orchard Review, Best Small Fictions 2020 and The Rumpus, among others. His story, “Shape-ups at Delilah’s” was published in Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2020. He was raised in Silver Spring, Maryland and earned an MFA from George Mason University where he won the Mary Roberts Rinehart award, a Completion Fellowship and an Alumni Exemplar Award. He has received fellowships from Bread Loaf Writing Conference, Kimbilio and the Colgate Writing Conference as well as a 2019 Maryland Individual Artist Award. Presently he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Maryland.

Find him on twitter and instagram: @ReeAmilcarScott

photo from the author's website