Reception and Reading with Kevin P. Keating

September 13, 2018

6:30PM - 8:00PM

Urban Arts Space 50 W. Town St., Suite 130

Add to Calendar 2018-09-13 18:30:00 2018-09-13 20:00:00 Reception and Reading with Kevin P. Keating Join Us for a Free Reception and Reading with 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence Kevin P Keating. Cleveland-area novelist Kevin P. Keating is the 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence. Keating will reside for four weeks at the historic home of author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber and receive a $5,000 stipend. He will begin his residency in late summer of 2018. Keating is the author of many short stories, essays, and reviews, and two novels: The Natural Order of Things (2014), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for a first work of fiction, and The Captive Condition (2015). Keating is nearing completion of his third novel, tentatively titled In the Secret Parts of Fortune. He will be working on final edits of this project and drafting his fourth novel during his residency. After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, Keating became a professor of English. He has taught at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, Lorain County Community College and John Carroll University. The Nance Writer-in-Residence Program was created in 2012 by Sally Crane Cox, who chairs the Nance Committee at Thurber House, to honor her late husband, John E. Nance, a critically acclaimed photojournalist and author. The Nance Residency is a partnership between Thurber House and The Ohio State University. Every year, Thurber House offers one talented author a month-long residency designed to provide him or her with the gift of time, space, and freedom to develop a work in progress. The winning writer stays in the fully furnished, two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of Thurber House, the historic family home of James Thurber. Transportation is available with the Arts and Humanities Scholars bus. Please complete this bus sign-up form to reserve your spot. Urban Arts Space 50 W. Town St., Suite 130 OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2018-09-13 18:30:00 2018-09-13 20:00:00 Reception and Reading with Kevin P. Keating Join Us for a Free Reception and Reading with 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence Kevin P Keating.  Cleveland-area novelist Kevin P. Keating is the 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence. Keating will reside for four weeks at the historic home of author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber and receive a $5,000 stipend. He will begin his residency in late summer of 2018. Keating is the author of many short stories, essays, and reviews, and two novels: The Natural Order of Things (2014), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for a first work of fiction, and The Captive Condition (2015). Keating is nearing completion of his third novel, tentatively titled In the Secret Parts of Fortune. He will be working on final edits of this project and drafting his fourth novel during his residency. After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, Keating became a professor of English. He has taught at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, Lorain County Community College and John Carroll University. The Nance Writer-in-Residence Program was created in 2012 by Sally Crane Cox, who chairs the Nance Committee at Thurber House, to honor her late husband, John E. Nance, a critically acclaimed photojournalist and author. The Nance Residency is a partnership between Thurber House and The Ohio State University. Every year, Thurber House offers one talented author a month-long residency designed to provide him or her with the gift of time, space, and freedom to develop a work in progress. The winning writer stays in the fully furnished, two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of Thurber House, the historic family home of James Thurber. Transportation is available with the Arts and Humanities Scholars bus. Please complete this bus sign-up form to reserve your spot.  Urban Arts Space 50 W. Town St., Suite 130 Department of English english@osu.edu America/New_York public

Join Us for a Free Reception and Reading with 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence Kevin P Keating.

Cleveland-area novelist Kevin P. Keating is the 2018 John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence. Keating will reside for four weeks at the historic home of author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist James Thurber and receive a $5,000 stipend. He will begin his residency in late summer of 2018.

Keating is the author of many short stories, essays, and reviews, and two novels: The Natural Order of Things (2014), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for a first work of fiction, and The Captive Condition (2015). Keating is nearing completion of his third novel, tentatively titled In the Secret Parts of Fortune. He will be working on final edits of this project and drafting his fourth novel during his residency.

After working as a boilermaker in the steel mills in Ohio, Keating became a professor of English. He has taught at Baldwin Wallace University, Cleveland State University, Lorain County Community College and John Carroll University.

The Nance Writer-in-Residence Program was created in 2012 by Sally Crane Cox, who chairs the Nance Committee at Thurber House, to honor her late husband, John E. Nance, a critically acclaimed photojournalist and author. The Nance Residency is a partnership between Thurber House and The Ohio State University.

Every year, Thurber House offers one talented author a month-long residency designed to provide him or her with the gift of time, space, and freedom to develop a work in progress. The winning writer stays in the fully furnished, two-bedroom apartment on the third floor of Thurber House, the historic family home of James Thurber.

Transportation is available with the Arts and Humanities Scholars bus. Please complete this bus sign-up form to reserve your spot.