Name: Saint Dymphna's Playbook -Reading- with Hillary Leftwich and Steven Dunn
Start: 2025-05-25T11:30:00-0600
End: 2025-05-25T12:15:00-0600

Sunday May 25, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT

4 Grace Atrium

In lyrical prose that embodies the fragmented form, Saint Dymphna’s Playbook mixes with hybrid verse, poetry, and lyrical essay detailing a ferocious and unapologetic viewpoint of how a woman’s body is seen and governed in a world determined to control and dominate. Themes of suicide, sexual assault, and the male gaze—even in the professional world of being a private investigator, a child, a mother, a lover—each piece pulling from experiences hard to confront. In this playbook of survival, Leftwich allows the reader to bear witness, handing the reader a gift of vulnerability and what it means to be alive in a society where women vanish in more ways than one.

Join Hillary Leftwich and Steven Dunn for a reading and discussion.

Speakers

Hillary Leftwich

Hillary Leftwich is a multi-media writer and the author of Ghosts Are Just Strangers Who Know How to Knock (Agape Editions, 2023), Aura (Future Tense Books, 2022), and Saint Dymphna’s Playbook (forthcoming from Limit Zero, 2025). She teaches creative writing, business writing, and... Read More →

Steven C. Dunn

A 2021 Whiting Award winner, and shortlisted for Granta magazine’s “Best of Young American Novelists,” Steven Dunn is the author of two books from Tarpaulin Sky Press: water & power (2018) and Potted Meat, which was a co-winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards, a finalist... Read More →

Sunday May 25, 2025 11:30am - 12:15pm MDT
4 Grace Atrium

Poetry

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Hillary Leftwich

Steven C. Dunn

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