Middlesex Community College will host award-winning writer John Fulton as part of the college鈥檚 Visiting Writers Series at 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 3 in the Richard and Nancy Donahue and Family Academic Arts Center Recital Hall in Lowell.
鈥淭he teaching of reading and writing fiction is more essential than ever in this divisive and divided moment since this discipline teaches us not only the skills and techniques for understanding our world but also how to imagine and empathize with those who may be different from us鈥�
鈥淭he teaching of reading and writing fiction is more essential than ever in this divisive and divided moment since this discipline teaches us not only the skills and techniques for understanding our world but also how to imagine and empathize with those who may be different from us,鈥滷ulton said. 鈥淎s a teacher and writer, I value helping students learn how to find their own voices. Just as importantly, I encourage them to imagine the world as seen through perspectives not their own.鈥�
A professor and director of the MFA program at UMass Boston, Fulton has published four books of fiction, including the newly released 鈥淭he Flounder and other stories鈥� (Blackwater Press, 2023) 鈥� a Poets & Writers Page One New and Noteworthy Book selection.
He has also written 鈥淭he Animal Girl鈥� (LSU Press, 2007), a Story Prize Notable Book; 鈥淩etribution鈥� (Picador USA, 2001), which won the Southern Review Short Fiction Prize; and the novel 鈥淢ore Than Enough鈥� (Picador USA, 2022), a Barnes and Noble鈥檚 Discover Great New Writers selection and the Salt Lake City Tribune Best Adult Novel for the West for 2002.
Fulton鈥檚 short fiction has been awarded a Pushcart Prize and has been published in many literary magazines and journals, including Missouri Review, The Sun, Zoetrope, and Ploughshares. He has received grants and fellowships from the New York Writers Institute, Sewanee Writers鈥� Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs.
麻豆果冻 Visiting Writers Series is co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Office of Student Engagement.