All events are free and open to the public.
For more information about these events, please contact Henryetta Vanaman at 501-450-4597 or
vanaman@hendrix.edu.
September 7, 2018,
7:00 p.m., Cabe Theatre
Playwright’s Theatre:
Had Orion Loved
Playwright’s Theatre, an extension of the Foundation’s
Playwriting Contest, produces dramatic readings of new plays by current or
former Hendrix students. Had Orion Loved
by Brian Earles (Hendrix class of 2018) won first place in the 2017–2018 Student
Playwriting Contest. The play is about what
happens “to Leo and Soandso while on a weekend escape to a bed-and-breakfast
when they find themselves trapped after an unexpected tornado devastates the
town,” according to Earles.
October 2, 2018, 7:30
p.m., Reves Recital Hall
An Evening with Murphy
Visiting Writer Deb Olin Unferth
Deb Olin Unferth
is the author of the memoir Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and
Went to Join the War, a short story collection, and a novel. Her work also
appears in numerous journals. She is an associate professor of English/Creative
Writing at The University of Texas at Austin and is a founding coordinator of a
creative writing certificate program at the John B. Connally Unit, a
penitentiary in southern Texas.
November 6, 2018, 7:30
p.m., Reves Recital Hall
An Evening with
Murphy Visiting Writer Sy Montgomery
Nature and science writer Sy Montgomery is the author of more
than 20 acclaimed books of nonfiction focusing particularly on animal behavior
and consciousness. The Soul of an Octopus
was a National Book Award finalist, and The
Good Good Pig was a New York Times
best-seller. In her new memoir, How to Be
a Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals, she reflects on the
personalities and quirks of 13 animals—her friends—who have profoundly affected
her.

February 12, 2019, 7:30
p.m., Reves Recital Hall
An Evening with
Murphy Writer-in-Residence Trenton Lee Stewart
Arkansas native
Trenton Lee Stewart, author of the award-winning, New York Times best-selling Mysterious Benedict Society series for
children, has published fiction in several literary journals. His novel for
adults, Flood Summer, is praised as
“a Greek tragedy by way of Arkansas.” As the Murphy Visiting Writer-in-Residence
at Hendrix this spring, he will teach a creative writing course, “Writing and
Publishing Fiction.”
March 28, 2019, 7:30
p.m., Mills C
"Flesh and
Stone: The Animation of Sculpture in Greek and Roman Literature" by Laura Hutchison
Laura Hutchison, a
2008 graduate of Hendrix and a Ph.D. candidate in Classics at Johns Hopkins
University, will discuss the literary representation of animated statuary by
ancient authors, using passages from Classical literature such as Homer’s Iliad, lyric and epic poetry of the
Hellenistic period, and poetry and prose of the Roman Empire. She is
currently a Samuel H. Kress Fellow at the American
School of Classical Studies at Athens, where she is finishing her dissertation.
April 11, 2019, 7:30
p.m., Reves Recital Hall
An Evening with
Murphy Visiting Poet Greg Brownderville
Arkansas-born poet Greg
Brownderville is the author of three volumes of poetry: Gust (which made the Poetry Foundation’s
best-seller list), Deep Down in the Delta,
and A Horse with Holes in It. He has
been awarded prizes and fellowships from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the
Porter Fund for Literary Excellence, and many journals. He is currently an
associate professor of English and the director of the Creative Writing Program
at Southern Methodist University.
April 25, 2019, 4:30 p.m., Murphy Seminar Room
The Aonian/Hendrix-Murphy Literary Contest Winners’ Reception and Reading
Winners of the Hendrix-Murphy Literary Contest will read their entries during a reception that also celebrates the debut of this year’s campus literary and visual art magazine, the Aonian.