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2022 Writers Festival: Craft Talk

Ustler Hall

MFA@FLA welcomes you to an afternoon with five visiting writers—Dana Spiotta, Geoff Dyer, Jennifer Moxley, Ishion Hutchinson, and Andrew Holleran—as they discuss their writing process and answer questions from the

Spring 2023 Career Showcase

Stephen C. O'Connell Center

Career Showcase is a University of Florida tradition. It offers students and alumni the opportunity to find explore internships, part-time, full-time, and co-op opportunities in all career pathways. Hosted by

Spring 2023 Career Showcase

Stephen C. O'Connell Center

Career Showcase is a University of Florida tradition. It offers students and alumni the opportunity to find explore internships, part-time, full-time, and co-op opportunities in all career pathways. Hosted by

Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land: An Evening with Taylor Brorby

Smathers Library, Room 100

Brorby's memoir recounts his upbringing in the coalfields; his adolescent infatuation with books; and how he felt intrinsically different from other boys. Now an environmentalist, Brorby uses the destruction of large swathes of the West as a metaphor for the terror he experienced as a youth. From an assault outside a bar in an oil boom town to a furtive romance, and from his awakening as an activist to his arrest at the Dakota Access Pipeline, Boys and Oil provides a startling portrait of an endangered American landscape that persists despite well-intentioned legal protections.