WiR im SS 2019
The Writer-in-Residence Program brings highly qualified and prominent professional writers to Würzburg for a short creative residency combined with teaching and public speaking events.
The aim of the program is threefold.
- First, the program emphasizes writing as a craft and professional skill in keeping with the profile of the Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg and the guiding frameworks of the "Qualitätspakt Lehre."
- Second, the program allows for networking between the JMU Würzburg and further academic as well as creative communities.
- Third, the program contributes to the international profile and visibility of the JMU Würzburg as an education innovator.
Writer in Residence Summer Semester 2019
From 2.7. until 12.7., Yaa Gyasi was the Writer in Residence at the Schreibzentrum | Writing Center. Gyasi is the author of the award-winning 2016 novel Homegoing.
Preliminary Program (English only)
Reading + Discussion with Writer in Residence Yaa Gyasi
Gyasi read in English from her award-winning novel Homegoing, and Christina Theresa Motsch of the Mainfranken Theater read from the German translation. A book signing followed the reading and discussion.
Wednesday, 3 July 2019
18:30 – 20:30
Location: Toscanasaal, Residenz Würzburg
Coffee Hour with Writer in Residence Yaa Gyasi
In conjunction with the "Creative Writing Workshop" that took place from July 3-5 at the Schreibzentrum |Writing Center der JMU.
Friday, 5 July 2019
14:00 - 16:00
ZSHG, Raum 02.013
Am Hubland
Restricted to JMU Würzburg students only.
Reservations were required in order to attend the event.
Discussion with Writer in Residence Yaa Gyasi, Yogita Goyal of the University of California Los Angeles, Barbara Sponholz of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Mutiat Titilope Oladejo of the University of Ibadan, and Julien Bobineau of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg.
Montag, 8 July 2019
18:30 – 20:30
Welzhaus / SCIAS
About the Author
Yaa Gyasi is a Ghanaian-American novelist. Her debut novel, Homegoing, published in 2016, won her, at the age of 26, the National Book Critics Circle's John Leonard Award for best first book, the PEN/Hemingway Award for a first book of fiction, the National Book Foundation's "5 under 35" honors for 2016 and the American Book Award.
