David Surface, one of our long-time teachers, and two of his Saturday morning HVWC fiction students will share their work in the final reading of the summer.
Surface has published fiction in numerous literary journals including North American Review, DoubleTake, Fiction, and Crazyhorse. His stories have appeared online in Taitlin’s Tower and Slow Trains and have been anthologized in Four Minute Fictions from Word Beat Press and in The Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica from Carroll and Graf. He is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony for the Arts and has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize in fiction. As a teacher, David has led fiction workshops at the HVWC for the past ten years, and he is the founder of WriteMind Workshops, a creative language arts program for teachers and students in 4th - 12th grade.
He will be joined in this reading by two of his long-time students: Sarah Young of Millwood and Neal Gomberg of Chappaqua. The two write in very different ways from one another but they are alike in that they both combine two unlikely components in their writing. In Young's work there is a deep humanistic, political passion revealed through fables told in an almost child-like voice. In Gomberg's work, there is a dark, somewhat cynical, emotional under-tow veiled by a wise-cracking humorous voice.
A question-and-answer period will follow the reading and refreshments will be served.
Writers:
summer fiction classes
are on Saturdays, July 10, 17, 24, and 31.
Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by a grant from the Bydale Foundation; the David G. Taft Foundation; the Orchard Foundation; and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals.