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Pleiades Visiting Writers Series
The Pleiades Visiting Writers Series, hosted by the University of Central Missouri Department of English and associated with Pleiades: Literature in Context, brings esteemed poets, fiction writers, and essayists to campus and local Kansas City venues for readings, Q&As, and, often, Turnsol Books events. The series frequently features emerging and established literary voices, such as Ananda Lima and Cedar Sigo.
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Fall Events
Image by Juliette Boulay on www.sadiedupuis.com
Sadie Dupuis
September 23: 7pm - Turnsol Books
September 24: 4pm - UCM Art Gallery
Sadie Dupuis is the guitarist, songwriter & singer of rock band Speedy Ortiz, as well
as the producer & multi-instrumentalist behind pop project Sad13. Sadie heads the
record label Wax Nine, edits its poetry journal, and has contributed to Spin, Tape Op, Talkhouse, and more. She holds an MFA in poetry from UMass Amherst, where she also taught writing.
Mouthguard, her first book, was published in 2018 (Gramma); Cry Perfume, a second poetry collection, was released in 2022 (Black Ocean). She is a founding
organizer of United Musicians & Allied Workers and its local UMAW Philly.
Dupuis will serve as the 2026 Pleiades Prufer Poetry Prize judge.
Image from www.kenanorhan.com
Kenan Orhan
November 4: 7pm - Turnsol Books
November 5: 4pm - UCM Art Gallery
Kenan Orhan’s collection, I Am My Country and Other Stories, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and longlisted for The Story Prize. His fiction appears in The Atlantic, The Paris Review, The O. Henry Prize Stories and The Best American Short Stories. His first novel, The Renovation, is out now. He lives in Kansas.
Orhan will serve as the 2027 Pleiades Kinder/Crump Prize for Short Fiction.
