Steve Yarbrough Will Open Writers' Series Feb. 2
For release: January 15, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

The University of Memphis will open its spring 2004 River City Writers Series Monday, Feb., 2, when author Steve Yarbrough presents a fiction writing workshop at 1 p.m. in Patterson Hall, Room 403. The event is free and open to the public.

Yarbrough, who holds an endowed chair at Fresno State University, is the author of several books, including Visible Spirits, Family Men and The Oxygen Man. He has also written the short story collections Veneer and Mississippi History. His awards include the California Book Award, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and the Mississippi Author's Award.

For more information call the Department of English at 678-2651.

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