Dead Writers

October 19, 2018

University Relations

The UAF English Department is hosting the 2018 Dead Writers event on Friday, Oct. 26, at the Blue Loon. Dead Writers, now in its 28th year, is an annual Halloween event that raises funds for the Midnight Sun Visiting Writers Series, which brings talented writers to Fairbanks for readings and workshops.

The doors open at 6 p.m. and performances begin at 7 p.m. The reading features university students, professors and community members performing, in costume, as their favorite deceased writer. Prizes are given to the best performances of the night.

Spectators are welcome; however, you must be 21 or older to attend.

The event will include door prize drawings in between readings.

Tickets are $12 if purchased in advance at Wood Center, or $15 at the door. 

“Dead Writers is by now a longstanding English Department, UAF and Fairbanks community tradition,” says English Department Chair Rich Carr. "For one night every fall participants step outside themselves to become a writer of yore. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Walt Whitman — these are but a few of the luminaries who have graced our stage in seasons past. You may see Yukio Mishima reading his final manifesto before the Japanese Diet or find Mary Rowlandson recounting her experiences — sort of — as a Native American captive in colonial America, or experience Sappho delivering an impassioned version of 'The Cremation of Sam McGee.'"

The English Department is housed within in the UAF College of Liberal Arts. CLA, the largest of UAF’s academic units, is composed of 20 different academic departments representing the arts, humanities, social sciences and language disciplines.

For more information email Venus Fultz at vfultz2@alaska.edu.